When I read Bill Ong Hing’s “Making
and Remaking Asian Pacific America” it really made me think about the means my
family used to immigrate to this country. I was 13 when I moved to this country
so I didn’t fully understand why we were moving to the United States and how we were moving to the United States.
Before we moved, my father went to the country first and then later we
followed. I never really knew the legalities of it, but after reading this
article, I called my dad to ask how we were able to move here. I’m not going to
go into too much detail on how but I
do know our means of getting here was through the second preference system: spouses and unmarried sons and daughters
of lawful permanent resident. In my phone call my dad told me about all the
hardship he had to go through in an attempt to reunite our family in this
country they call “The Land of the Free.” How could we hold our right hand over
our heart and listen to the Star Spangled Banner recite the words “O’er the
land and of the free” when this country makes it so hard for newly migrated
people to have freedom? I just feel that
the fact that they have made so many amendments in terms of immigration just
comes to show that this country is trying hard to find ways to limit immigration
altogether. So my question is what steps will the government take to limit
Asian Pacific immigrants from taking advantage of the family preference system?
And would that really be so necessary?
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