Wow, The percentage is that high! Maybe the original applicant had some useful skill needed by the USA but that doesn't mean the rest of his family chain has any skills that sustain or improve our economy. Immigration should a merit-based program that gives preference to immigrants based on job training, education, and English proficiency and not so much about their family member who is already here.

Only a portion of immigration is based on merit (we need those skills, or knowledge). You may feel it should be limited to that. I don't. If someone has a family overseas and wants to sponsor a family member, I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with a pregnant woman coming over and giving birth here with the aim of establishing birth citizenship and then slowly bringing everyone over.

I don't have a problem with overall annual caps. I've expressed that we cannot take everyone and that's based on finding out that people were flying into Latin America and working their way up to our border.

Among other things, and y'all haven't talked about it, we look for the fake marriage, and the whirlwind marriage where the 80 year old guy marries the 18 year old beauty convinced they're in love. Happens.