As I indicated in my previous post, immigration is not (never) the clear-cut situation it appears to be, or as its policy makers would like it to be.
Some immigrants wishing to come to the U.S., who have waited years and up to decades to get their green cards, are met with another obstacle. Their adult (over 21 years of age) children, who were youngsters when their parents initiated the immigration process, are no longer eligible as dependents of their parents to automatically enter the U.S. with their parents' newly acquired green cards. The parents need to reapply to sponsor these adult offspring. This could amount to several more years of waiting before such a family is reunited. One immigration lawyer says that up to 20,000 immigrants in the U.S. are facing such predicaments, and dozens of them are suing the federal government to avoid these kinds of delays.
Such is yet another farce of the immigration system: Immigrants who often are not citizens, suing the U.S. government, a country that is not their own, to strong-arm it into letting their foreigner relatives into its own borders. As I said in this earlier post, immigration in all its forms, from illegals crossing borders to families pulling in dozens of relatives, has become a human rights and civil rights issue. Americans, and Canadians, can no longer say they will not accept foreigners into their country (for whatever reason they decide not to), for fear of international retaliations, and accusations of racism or discrimination.
Third World and non-Western Immigrants thus acquire incredible force with which to pressure Western governments to concede to their many demands, the most important of which is that more and more of their own people continue to be admitted into these lands.