In modern times, family reunification is an idiotic excuse when anywhere in the world is an airline flight away or, in the case of the south of the border types, a bus ride away.
“Family basing works when you have families of workers and achievers. It doesn’t work when you have families of leeches and loafers.”
It might be ok with some of the Asian cultures, but not the Hispanic one. They are the lowest performing ‘minority’ in any school they invade.
When we were moving and needed to see what parts of cities to move to with my son, I did a lot of research on schools’ performance. High free lunches correlated to low test scores-except with one group: Asians. I don’t know what nationality, since that wasn’t part of the data.