About Chain Migration
A family who benefited from chain migration34 total reviews
Comment from Michele Harber
You know you're going to cause me to use up all my sixes, don't you???
I don't like to start political conversations, as you never know who's for whom, and I really don't want to get into those arguments. I'm relieved, after reading this, to hear that you share my views.
"Does anyone else think it's hypocritical to call for an end to chain migration when he benefited by it to a great degree?" It's just one of the many ways in which he's shown his hypocrisy and his "me first" attitude.
This poem shows that perfectly, clearly illustrating the flow of chain migration in his ancestry and, not surprisingly, doing it with perfect rhyme and meter.
Sadly, only the people who feel as we do will take home an important message from this poem. The others will just see this as another attack on their poor, beleaguered messiah.
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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You know you're going to cause me to use up all my sixes, don't you???
I don't like to start political conversations, as you never know who's for whom, and I really don't want to get into those arguments. I'm relieved, after reading this, to hear that you share my views.
"Does anyone else think it's hypocritical to call for an end to chain migration when he benefited by it to a great degree?" It's just one of the many ways in which he's shown his hypocrisy and his "me first" attitude.
This poem shows that perfectly, clearly illustrating the flow of chain migration in his ancestry and, not surprisingly, doing it with perfect rhyme and meter.
Sadly, only the people who feel as we do will take home an important message from this poem. The others will just see this as another attack on their poor, beleaguered messiah.
Comment Written 16-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Yes I think I lost some reviewers on this site because of my political posts. I could probably get twice as many reviews if I didn't make these post.
on the other hand a lot of people I've argued with review my poems and I review anybody's poems no matter whether they agree with me or not
Thanks again for your stellar review and your extra star this time. I appreciate it very much.
Comment from Chip Whitley
Yes, I believe we all want, "so they could reap a better fate." Coming to America and the land of opportunity. "Keep border migrants out of here," indeed!
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Yes, I believe we all want, "so they could reap a better fate." Coming to America and the land of opportunity. "Keep border migrants out of here," indeed!
Comment Written 15-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Thank you for agreeing with me. Ha ha.
Seriously thank you for your wonderful comments and pointing out parts that you liked about my poem
And thank you for the extra star. I really appreciate it.
Comment from TPAC
A very informative read, displays the ignorance of our species: capturing assumed considerations as their total reality. The ideal believed encouraging an arrogant stance: inwhich takers rule over those less fortunate.
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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A very informative read, displays the ignorance of our species: capturing assumed considerations as their total reality. The ideal believed encouraging an arrogant stance: inwhich takers rule over those less fortunate.
Comment Written 15-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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I agree. Thank you for your very considered review and excellent rating.
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I agree. Thank you for your very considered review and excellent rating.
Comment from Nicki.B
Thanks so much for sharing this biographical rhyming poem.
It had great flow and was a really enjoyable read telling the story of Trump and his family. It was very well put together, a lot of information I wouldn't have heard before about where he came from etc.
And yes I do agree with you it is highly hypocritical of him.
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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Thanks so much for sharing this biographical rhyming poem.
It had great flow and was a really enjoyable read telling the story of Trump and his family. It was very well put together, a lot of information I wouldn't have heard before about where he came from etc.
And yes I do agree with you it is highly hypocritical of him.
Comment Written 15-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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Thank you again for another heartfelt and honest review
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Thank you again for another heartfelt and honest review
Comment from Mary Vigasin
You a brave lady to put in writing what many of us feel
Excellent job in putting the family history showing the "I got mine"attitude.
The sad thing I saw was a house plastered with Trump posters and large banners and in the corner was one small sign"Only results, not personality matters"
Mary e
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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You a brave lady to put in writing what many of us feel
Excellent job in putting the family history showing the "I got mine"attitude.
The sad thing I saw was a house plastered with Trump posters and large banners and in the corner was one small sign"Only results, not personality matters"
Mary e
Comment Written 15-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Yes that sounds sad. These people are in a cult and Trump is their cult leader. But if he becomes president again, the CIA may have to kill him because he's such a threat to national security
I believe they may have killed Kennedy for the same reason. He was about to start a nuclear war with Russia.
Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and the extra star. It is much appreciated.
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
Thank you for filling me in with some history of Trumps family here Pam and I enjoyed your unique tale in rhyming form here, a very interesting post, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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Thank you for filling me in with some history of Trumps family here Pam and I enjoyed your unique tale in rhyming form here, a very interesting post, love Dolly x
Comment Written 15-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 15-Aug-2024
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Thank you, Dolly for your interest in Trump's chain migration and for reviewing this and giving me an excellent rating
Comment from Cindy Decker 3
Pam,
I like four gutsy poem about their --The Trump's--chain migration. I did not know all of these facts. I think also lost his credibility when he called striking workers "scabs." (Unrelated to your great expose poem, but important none the less. My late father was a union man, striking for rights in horrible conditions at the time--working around extremely caustic chemicals). His father, my grandfather, immigrated to the U.S. to avoid the mafia sweeping his town.
Thank you, for your awesome poem, Pam.
Best wishes!
Cindy
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Pam,
I like four gutsy poem about their --The Trump's--chain migration. I did not know all of these facts. I think also lost his credibility when he called striking workers "scabs." (Unrelated to your great expose poem, but important none the less. My late father was a union man, striking for rights in horrible conditions at the time--working around extremely caustic chemicals). His father, my grandfather, immigrated to the U.S. to avoid the mafia sweeping his town.
Thank you, for your awesome poem, Pam.
Best wishes!
Cindy
Comment Written 14-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Thank you again for all of your encouragement and for these lovely comments and mainly for agreeing with me. Ha ha ha. Strike that last comment
Thank you also for the extra star. I appreciate it very much.
Comment from jake cosmos aller
loved this poem about the utter hypocritical Trump and his war on chain migration when he imported two of his three wives, his mother was a product of chain migration as was his grandfather and grandmother.
I do agree with him on one thing.
The F4 category which allows one to bring ones sibling is broken it can take twenty years to wait for your number to come up. and many people circumvent the wait through fraudulent means - 95 percent get through. I think we should end the travesty by announcing an end to the f4 category taking no new applicants and giving everyone in line one year to contact the USG to re-open their cases and one more year to get through the various hoops medical and background checks etc then two years later the category goes away as the US shifts to a Canadian style system that priorities workers over family reunification with the requirement that all immigrants have a high school degree, and can be interviewed in English
this would mean a one time boost of about 20 million immigrants but they would all be going to join family and it would be unjust to cut them off after waiting for years. Many of them would decide not to bother anymore and some sadly will be dead.
this is based on my decades of experience as a visa officer and a fraud officer.
reply by the author on 14-Aug-2024
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loved this poem about the utter hypocritical Trump and his war on chain migration when he imported two of his three wives, his mother was a product of chain migration as was his grandfather and grandmother.
I do agree with him on one thing.
The F4 category which allows one to bring ones sibling is broken it can take twenty years to wait for your number to come up. and many people circumvent the wait through fraudulent means - 95 percent get through. I think we should end the travesty by announcing an end to the f4 category taking no new applicants and giving everyone in line one year to contact the USG to re-open their cases and one more year to get through the various hoops medical and background checks etc then two years later the category goes away as the US shifts to a Canadian style system that priorities workers over family reunification with the requirement that all immigrants have a high school degree, and can be interviewed in English
this would mean a one time boost of about 20 million immigrants but they would all be going to join family and it would be unjust to cut them off after waiting for years. Many of them would decide not to bother anymore and some sadly will be dead.
this is based on my decades of experience as a visa officer and a fraud officer.
Comment Written 14-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 14-Aug-2024
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hi Jake. I don't know what F4means. Can you explain it better to me? Does it mean some category of family member that wants to come here via chain migration?
Motto shouldn't be MAGA. it should be MAWA for make America white again
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yeah the F4 category is for siblings of US citizens it is the highest fraud category because the wait times are insane 25 years for the Philippines and Mexico, average of 8 years most places only two years in Latin America. People get around it by fake marriages and divorces to US citizens which has a shorter wait time, or fake sibling relationships in countries with shorter wait times like in Africa, or moving to a country with a short wait time then applying from there once you are a citizen of that country etc
that is why there are so many Latin Koreans as they are called in the Korean American community. they lived in South America for a few years before finally immigrating as a F4 category by passing the nine years if they waited in line in Korea.
and many of them end up marrying Hispanics in LA or elsewhere as they are very comfortable among Spanish speakers as opposed to Koreans who immigrated directly from Korea.
there are so many cases of fraud in this category that I think it should be eliminated but those in line should be grandfathered in. I also believe that immigrants should be required to speak English and have at least a High school diploma and people with tech degrees etc should be given priority over people without any particular skill set. F4 status does not require English, high school graduation or job skills. just a biological relationship to a US citizen, but sperm donor babies can't sponsor their siblings they find out about later as a result of a US supreme court case.
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Interesting
Comment from Shanbreen
Pam, I finally have a breather, but I have a lot of catching up to do. Your poem is wonderful, so full of historical facts-- reminds me a bit of what Debbie D'Arcy writes.
There are so many things, one can talk about in this poem, but it's ironic that a person who married an immigrant is now fighting against immigrants to the point of having placed children in cages separated from their parents.
The migrants' children fret and weep.
Their parents cry themselves to sleep.
I do understand that we as nation cannot allow immigrants to come unchecked. But at this particular time, we can absorb many more. Yes, immigration reform is needed but when we produce a plan which all parties accept, he goes and withdraws his support.
I am so glad you posted this poem.
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Pam, I finally have a breather, but I have a lot of catching up to do. Your poem is wonderful, so full of historical facts-- reminds me a bit of what Debbie D'Arcy writes.
There are so many things, one can talk about in this poem, but it's ironic that a person who married an immigrant is now fighting against immigrants to the point of having placed children in cages separated from their parents.
The migrants' children fret and weep.
Their parents cry themselves to sleep.
I do understand that we as nation cannot allow immigrants to come unchecked. But at this particular time, we can absorb many more. Yes, immigration reform is needed but when we produce a plan which all parties accept, he goes and withdraws his support.
I am so glad you posted this poem.
Comment Written 14-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 31-Aug-2024
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Thank you so much, my friend for such great feedback, knowledgeable, reviews, wonderful comments, and the shiny stars
Comment from SimianSavant
Pam, this is excellent writing, and unfortunate that I'm out of extra stars. Your metering and thorough storytelling (which you've clearly researched well) make this easy to read and captivating. Presentation is also good, with an adequately large yet crisp looking font. Most importantly, your piece delivers a clear and powerful message, honed by all the writing tools at your disposal.
I have just one small suggestion on your wording:
Since Fred was twelve when father died, <= missing possessive pronoun, which you left out to keep your meter correct. There's an easy fix though: "when Fred was twelve, his father died".
And proofreading:
He had to leave there mighty
fast. <= there's an unintentional line break between these last two words
They both now lived inside the states <= since this is referring to the United States, I'd capitalize that word
if Jesus came here from the south,
would he make Donald wash his mouth? <= an excellent, memorable line
I'm a second gen immigrant. One thing we don't talk about a lot is what historical migration has looked like, and it would be a good idea to examine annual immigration as a percent of the local population. With birth rates especially of Caucasians below replacement rate these days, higher rates of immigration than before may be necessary to sustain a healthy rate of economic growth, and the country needs nonpartisan solutions to distribute immigrants across the country and not just to the "red" border states. That's the hot take from this ape.
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reply by the author on 14-Aug-2024
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Pam, this is excellent writing, and unfortunate that I'm out of extra stars. Your metering and thorough storytelling (which you've clearly researched well) make this easy to read and captivating. Presentation is also good, with an adequately large yet crisp looking font. Most importantly, your piece delivers a clear and powerful message, honed by all the writing tools at your disposal.
I have just one small suggestion on your wording:
Since Fred was twelve when father died, <= missing possessive pronoun, which you left out to keep your meter correct. There's an easy fix though: "when Fred was twelve, his father died".
And proofreading:
He had to leave there mighty
fast. <= there's an unintentional line break between these last two words
They both now lived inside the states <= since this is referring to the United States, I'd capitalize that word
if Jesus came here from the south,
would he make Donald wash his mouth? <= an excellent, memorable line
I'm a second gen immigrant. One thing we don't talk about a lot is what historical migration has looked like, and it would be a good idea to examine annual immigration as a percent of the local population. With birth rates especially of Caucasians below replacement rate these days, higher rates of immigration than before may be necessary to sustain a healthy rate of economic growth, and the country needs nonpartisan solutions to distribute immigrants across the country and not just to the "red" border states. That's the hot take from this ape.
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Comment Written 14-Aug-2024
reply by the author on 14-Aug-2024
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Gawd. I so appreciate you
I did not need a possessive in my original line for when his father died. However, I think your line is better than mine so I took you up on that.
I had trouble finding the line break, but then I saw that maybe I could backspace and get the other word on the same line
I guess I agree with capitalizing states but I sure would like to somehow fit United States and that line I just couldn't fit it there and keep the meter
I thought about
Now live in United States but then there'd be a the missing the. Maybe that would be a license and maybe it would still be OK. You can tell me your opinion on that.
I figured it out!!
They lived in the United States.
I'm so happy to find that. I'm going to change it now.
I just think you're phenomenal and thank you for all of this.
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I was just thinking you could change "states" to "States", but either one works! Glad to hear this was helpful.