Rep. Mike Coffman Cosponsors Chain Migration Bill

Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman has cosponsored Rep. Phil Gingrey’s H.R. 878, the Nuclear Family Priority Act. The bill now has 30 cosponsors, and if passed, would relieve population pressure on America’s environmental resources, congested communities and depressed labor markets by eliminating some of the categories under current law.

The current annual limits on greencards are 65,000 adult brothers and sisters, 23,400 married sons and daughters and 23,400 unmarried adult sons and daughters. H.R. 878 would eliminate all three categories and not provide an increase in any other category, thereby directly decreasing overall immigration by 111,800 per year (1.118 million a decade). This would indirectly reduce the numbers by even more over time as there would be fewer recent immigrants who are the ones most likely to bring people into the country as spouses or parents of U.S. citizens.

The Nuclear Family and Priority Act would have one of the greatest impacts in reducing current legal immigration levels back to traditional levels. The bill is listed on our “5 Great Immigration-Reduction Bills” page.