U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?

• Autores: Harriet Duleep, Mark Regets
• Localización: International migration review, ISSN 0197-9183, Vol. 48, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 823-845
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its familybased admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, replacing family visas with employment-based visas. In many ways, this is a false dichotomy: family-friendly policies attract highly-skilled immigrants regardless of their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment-based immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy. Recent immigrants, who have mostly entered via kinship ties, are economically productive, a fact hidden by a flawed methodology that underlies most economic analyses of immigrant economic assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]