Religious groups, pro-reform organizations brace for fight over family-based visas
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By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News
Lobbyists and activists in Washington, D.C., are holding their collective breath this week as they await legislative language on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that has largely been negotiated behind closed doors.
But hints of the bill’s proposals already have religious organizations and other pro-reform groups publicly signaling that they will fight possible reductions in visas available to foreign-born family members of U.S. citizens.
Activists fear that the bipartisan Gang of Eight proposal may seek to eliminate two categories of family-based visas – those available to the siblings and to the married adult children of U.S. citizens – in order to shift more visas to immigrants linked to employers.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key member of the Gang of Eight, said that a primary goal of the legislation would be to “turn our chain migration, family-based immigration system into a merit- based immigration system with a family component.”
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Graham is a pig.
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