AFAIK, most (66%) legal immigration into the United States is currently due to f...

		woodrow on June 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant AFAIK, most (66%) legal immigration into the United States is currently due to family reunification reasons, rather than for skilled employees, humanitarian reasons, or diversity [1]. Whether or not this is economically rational or beneficial to America or other Americans can be argued. [1] Second paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_State...

To be fair, that could be because it's almost always the quickest and easiest way to immigrate.