Blanket visa bans targeting countries like Venezuela are stranding families of lawful, contributing immigrants — including a San Francisco couple known for intervening in crimes and saving lives, whose mother-in-law can't get a visitor visa to meet her newborn grandson. The policy offers no way to distinguish rule-followers from rule-breakers, forcing an all-or-nothing choice between permanent immigration and no visit at all. The case is reigniting debate over whether blunt immigration restrictions undermine the very system of legal immigration that has long been central to American competitiveness.
A family that literally fights crime in their SF neighborhood can't get grandma a visitor visa to meet her newborn grandson.