According to the Associated Press, government data reveals that over the past decade, the United States government has approved the petitions of thousands of men seeking to bring child and adolescent brides to live stateside.

As the AP reports:
There were more than 5,000 cases of adults petitioning on behalf of minors and nearly 3,000 examples of minors seeking to bring in older spouses or fiancés, according to the data requested by the Senate Homeland Security Committee in 2017 and compiled into a report

…  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) first base approval on whether the marriage is legal in the petitioner’s home country, and then consider whether the marriage will be legal in the state where the couple intends to live

… The (US)Immigration and Nationality Act does not set minimum age requirements for the person making the request or for that person’s spouse or fiancee,” reports the AP. “By contrast, to bring in a parent from overseas, a petitioner has to be at least 21 years old

And understandably, the government’s findings are raising long-overdue concerns about how our current immigration policies are enabling forced marriage between minors and adults—and how our laws may be exploited to procure U.S. passports. An interview with one former child bride affirms this. Naila Amin is a dual citizen from Pakistan who was raised in New York City before being forced to marry in her parents’ native country at age 13. She was then compelled to petition for her 26-year-old husband to join her in America.
“I was a passport to him,” Amin told the AP. “They all wanted him here, and that was the way to do it/quote].”

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John Smith wrote on Mar 17^th, 2019 at 9:16pm:


I don't demonise Muslims.... I discuss clear cases of excesses committed by Muslims, and in the case of the Christchurch insanity, I have clearly come down in support of the NZ Muslim population.

Obviously you need to review your interpretation of what people say.

I've never once said that anyone should 'buggar off back to the ME', though I have suggested that those unhappy with Oz or who are criminals or terrorists could just as easily be repatriated.. and those who do not wish to be part of Oz are welcome to go 'home' again.

Include the Italians, Igor - enough of this nonsense... they can walk back on the oil slick left by their forebears who swam here...   

My god, but you've become childish, Smith... it's an Italian thing, though ...