And we mean family reunification in America. Obviously. As CIS reports.
In February, the administration increased the speed and the opportunity for Syrians to enter the country by permitting them to use the Priority-2 (P2) Direct Access Program (DAP), which was created for Iraqis in 2008. This program allows Syrian nationals (spouses and children, but also brothers and sisters etc.) who qualify as refugees to join family members in the U.S. more quickly – three months instead of at least a decade for a regular sibling application. Also, family members coming to the U.S. as immigrants are responsible for their travel and visa application fees, while those coming under the refugee resettlement program receive public assistance related to their travel, reception, and initial stay in the United States.
These migrants are almost universally Muslims. And they are receiving special privileges that ordinary immigrants do not. Arguably Syrian Muslims are now the most privileged groups of migrants to the US.
Obama Inc. is using every trick in the book to maximize the number of Muslim migrants entering America.
Apart from this specific expansion of the family reunification program for Syrian refugees, other sponsoring channels are not new: work authorizations, student and medical visas, etc., are existing admission methods for immigrants. What is different here is this administration's apparent intent to promote these "private sponsorships" as indirect routes to bring in increasing numbers of Syrian refugees outside the refugee resettlement program. Slots in the refugee resettlement program are limited and approved (tacitly) by Congress, whereas these alternate pathways have no limits and lack formal traceability. We should expect thousands and thousands of entrants in the future via these lawful detours.
This is effectively governmental human trafficking. Obama is doing everything he and his people can do to maximize the number of Syrian Muslim migrants by exploiting every loophole. Meanwhile legitimate immigrants and actual Syrian Christian refugees have trouble even getting their foot in the door.