{"id":27423,"date":"2018-01-23T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27423"},"modified":"2018-01-24T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:21:13","slug":"chain-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27423","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChain migration\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, everything that comes out of the White House is a pile of pure horseshit:<\/p>\n

Add all of<\/a> these factors together, and it becomes clear that an immigrant won\u2019t be able to bring that many relatives to the US over the course of his or her lifetime. Vaughan\u2019s study found that as of 2015, immigrants who came to the US from 1981 to 2000 had sponsored an average of 1.77 relatives to come join them. The most recent immigrants in the study \u2014 those who came to the US in the late 1990s \u2014 had sponsored the most relatives: 3.46. But both of those numbers include the minor children they brought with them at the time: In other words, they were hardly starting 3.46 new \u201cchains.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A human chain with 3.46 links, two of which are the minor children of the immigrants, isn't much of a chain.<\/p>\n

But, yet again, we have to sit and watch \"conservatives\" work themselves into an ignorant fury over a complete lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, everything that comes out of the White House is a pile of pure horseshit: Add all of these factors together, and it becomes clear that an immigrant won\u2019t be able to bring that many relatives to the US over the course of his or her lifetime. Vaughan\u2019s study found that as of 2015, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27427,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions\/27427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}