White House casts chain-migration as a security threat to pressure Democrats

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White House officials released a series of startling statistics on Tuesday that cast family-based chain migration as a security threat to the United States, hoping to pressure Democrats into pursuing merit-based immigration reforms.

“Our simple ask here is that the U.S. Congress work with the administration to reform our immigration system to end chain migration,” a senior administration official told reporters Tuesday morning.

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