openwhen the u.s. and borders in the 19th century, a wage earner would, and then get a house and a job and send for his family to come. the first person to go through ellis island was a young minor child who was meeting up with their family here in the united states. legally, family sponsorship or unification wasn't part of a immigration law until 1921 when congress put very high quotas on immigrants outside northwestern europe but made an exception for immediate relatives. it, it was changed in 1965 and expanded. family sponsorship has been a major portion of the immigration system. -- there have been unintended consequences. you have basically two big portions of family sponsorship. one is the immediate relatives, spouses, parents, children. that's 48% of immigrants in the united states. ofhave another portion family sponsored preferences. they are 20%. they add up to 68%. it started in 1965, people wanted to keep american immigration coming from europe. most immigrants were from europe. the idea was

openwhen the u.s. d borders in the 19th century, a wage earner would, and then get a house and a job and send for his family to come. the first person to go through ellis island was a young minor child who was meeting up with their family here in the united states. legally, family sponsorship or unification wasn't part of a immigration law until 1921 when congress put very high quotas on immigrants outside northwestern europe but made an exception for immediate relatives. it, it was changed in 1965 and expanded. family sponsorship has been a major portion of the immigration system. -- there have been unintended consequences. you have basically two big portions of family sponsorship. one is the immediate relatives, spouses, parents, children. that's 48% of immigrants in the united states. ofhave another portion family sponsored preferences. they are 20%. they add up to 68%. it started in 1965, people wanted to keep american immigration coming from europe. most immigrants were from europe. the idea was on