Trump tightens green card, Chinese Americans are nervous

Trump tightens green card, Chinese Americans are nervous [Overseas Chinese News reporter Gao Rui reported in Los Angeles on October 11] Trump’s tightening immigration policy not only strikes at the &#822...

[Overseas Chinese News reporter Gao Rui reported in Los Angeles on October 11] Trump tightened The broad knife of shrinking immigration policy not only targets "illegal immigrants", but also "legal immigrants". The issuance of green cards, including family-based immigrants, is also called "card". It is planned to reduce the annual green card issuance from 645,000 in 2014 to 140,000 to 540,000. Although Trump’s attitude has not yet been finalized into law, the machete he wields has made many legal immigrants, including Chinese, worry about the unpredictable changes that their relatives on the waiting list may face in the next few years.

>Ms. Wu’s dilemma

Ms. Wu, a Chinese from Los Angeles, said on the 11th that she applied for her younger brother to come to the United States through family immigration in 2007, and it was only in 2008 that she was in line. It originally took 10 years to get a visa, but after Trump came to power, the immigration policy tightened. Her brother's schedule is likely to be extended to 14 years later, which makes Ms. Wu, an American citizen, worried about the following issues:

1. Younger brother: Ms. Wu's brother was born in 1972 and is now 45 years old. Based on the 2008 schedule, his brother will be 50 in 14 years. What else can he do when he comes to the United States? Even American college graduates can't find an ideal job now, let alone a "foreigner" over fifty years old? The younger brother bluntly stated that the couple immigrated to the United States mainly for their daughter. They hoped that their children could attend high school and college in the United States. If their daughter's plan to come to the United States failed, it would no longer matter whether they came to the United States or not.

2. Daughter: My brother’s daughter was born in 2002. If she can be successfully scheduled to immigrate to the United States in 2022, her daughter will be 20 years old by then and still have the opportunity to come to the United States to attend college; but if Trump is If the austerity policy of the United States is delayed for another year or two, her daughter will exceed the 21-year-old "adult" limit, and it will be impossible to immigrate to the United States; if she "spots" some more and falls into the list of hundreds of thousands of legal green cards that Trump has "cut off", it will be completely out of the question.

3. Investment: In order to enable his daughter to successfully follow American courses after coming to the United States, my brother has already put troops and food first. He has sent his daughter to an international school since elementary school. This year, she has already entered the second grade of junior high school. The annual tuition is hundreds of thousands of yuan. Over the years, the total tuition alone has cost millions. If his daughter cannot come to the United States because of Trump's "change of intentions," then the millions of upfront investments will be in vain.

4. House: In order to immigrate relatives of her younger brother and his family, Ms. Wu has bought a million-dollar house in San Gabriel, Southern California. Her younger brother paid $200,000 for this house. Her parents also converted their retirement funds into U.S. dollars and spent it on investment for their children and grandchildren to immigrate to the United States. It can be said that the whole family has reached the point of selling iron to immigrate to the United States. If Trump changes his mind at this time, then three generations of Ms. Wu's family will be devastated.

Ms. Wu believes that the Trump administration should not change the immigration policy casually. You can modify the immigration policy for those legal immigrants who have not been approved, but for those legal immigrants who have been approved and have been scheduled, the promises and policies should be fulfilled. If her younger brother, parents and granddaughter are affected by Trump's "change" in immigration policy, Ms. Wu doesn't know what her next step should be. Should she continue to stay in the United States? Or go back to China to take care of your parents and elders? "If there are public protests and demonstrations, I will be the first to hold a sign and join them to protest against Trump's harsh legal immigration policies!"

Do not increase the burden on the United States

Ms. Cheng, a Chinese resident of San Gabriel, said that her daughter is a single mother and obtained a green card through a work visa a few years ago, but it is not easy for her daughter to raise two children alone. , in order to make ends meet, her daughter works two jobs, one is to transport the elderly to a senior center, and the other is to teach Chinese and English in community schools. However, the salaries of both jobs are not high and are not enough to pay the monthly rent of US$1,600. Therefore, she has to convert her pension in China into US dollars every month to supplement her daughter.

Ms. Cheng said that she has come to the United States three times to "visit relatives" to help her daughter take care of her two children. The first time she stayed was 3 months, the second time she stayed 5 months, and a month ago she came to the United States for the third time. Although she had a 6-month visa, she did not dare to stay for half a year for fear of affecting her next entry. "I am very confused now. I should return to China on time. I am worried that I will never be able to enter the country again. I should be detained overdue, and I am afraid that it will affect my daughter's green card and become a citizen."

Ms. Cheng supports the president's austerity policy against illegal immigrants, but hopes Trump will not also kill legal immigrants. "My daughter is a law-abiding resident, but she decided to divorce her ex-husband because he did something illegal. Now in Los Angeles, she is willing to contribute to the United States. For this reason, she actively works, pays taxes according to regulations, and works two jobs. Although life is very hard, we work together across generations to face the challenges of life together, and will never embarrass the Chinese or increase the burden on the Americans."

>A few streets north, Shanghai and Guangzhou in Los Angeles

>Mr. Zheng, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Los Angeles, applied for his younger siblings to come to the United States in 2006, but he was frustrated when he heard that the Immigration Bureau was now processing the 2002 application. "We have been waiting in line for 15 years since 2002. At this rate, my younger brother and sister will have to wait until 2021 at the earliest. Who knows what Trump's immigration policy will look like by then. If, as the media says, Trump is going to cut off hundreds of thousands of green card quotas, my brother If the younger brother or sister is unfortunately "shot", then all our efforts will be in vain. "

Dr. Zheng said that he no longer believes in the US government. The younger brother and sister also feel that relative immigration is too slim and they have no hope. "My sister said that China is developing faster than the United States. The construction of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou has already surpassed Los Angeles by several blocks. You really need to reconsider whether to come to the United States. It is said online that there are hundreds of thousands of international students coming to China from the United States every year. Americans are rushing to come to China to develop. Do we still need to go to the United States?"

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