Name:   Casey - Subject:   Close family ties Date:   6/30/2017 7:32:46 PM

I appreciate the responses and 'slighty' understand what you are saying.  I guess I'm reducing it to a personal level (and, after all, we are talking about real people).  I have warm and loving memories of my grandparents and can't imagine, if I were legally in the USA and able and wanting to sponsor them and house them, that they would not have been allowed to enter (or even visit) by my government.  And....well...need I talk about my grandkids?  To me, they'll always be 'close family ties'.