Essays on Legal Immigration

The world today is seeing more immigration than ever before, both legal and illegal. While countries forging solid links with one another in the vein of the European Union (hereafter referred to as EU for brevity) has encouraged legal immigration of all kinds, while war and deprivation in various other parts of the world has led to a burgeoning refugee crisis, with more people entering Western countries than can be adequately or carefully handled at any one time. These forms of immigration can be seen as quite different to each other at face value; however, when looked at in ...

Introduction

The primary goals of DHS are to protect American citizens against terrorist threats and securing the U.S. borders. This paper analyses the many missions of the DHS.

Missions of the DHS

Protection against terrorist attacks The priority of the DHS is to protect American citizens against terrorist threats and attacks such as 9/11. The department utilizes a counterterrorism tactic by identifying suspicious terrorist activities within the U.S. borders. Importantly, DHS collaborates with other federal agencies, private sector and the public to mine information essential for prevention of terrorist attacks and preparedness (Napolitano, 2009). Hence, the success of DHS’s missions attributes to effective ...

Illegal immigration is one of the social issues that is consistently being debated in the United States. The public is often polarized on the issue, some do not consider illegal immigration a genuine concern and others believe it is a danger and threat to the United States and it must be banned and proactively prevented in the future. A great deal of research has been conducted on the topic of illegal immigration and its impact to the United States. There are millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States and that number does not appear to be reducing. ...

Immigration

Immigration

Introduction

Immigration is the process of people moving from their native country to another country for the purpose of establishing residence in that other country. There are two different types of immigration: legal immigration; and illegal immigration. This paper will discuss the process of legally immigrating to the United States; and the process of people immigrating to the United States illegally. The research will provide data to support that legal immigration is an accepted form of moving to the United States from another country. Evidence will also be presented to show that illegal immigration is an unacceptable means of ...

English

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND IMMIGRATION REFORMS INTRODUCTION On November 20 2014, President Obama spoke on immigration and stated, “We were strangers once, too. And whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship”. The United States of America has existed as a country with many immigrants originating from those who initially crossed the bridge that ...

How Does Illegal Immigration Affect the U.S. Economy? Illegal immigration is one of the most problematic issues of the U.S. policymakers. For decades the number of illegal immigrants coming to the USA had been growing. In 2007 there were about 12 million of them living and working in the country when the authorities decided to tackle the problem. By now the number of illegal immigrants has declined (Johnson and Hill 2) and equals approximately 11.1 million. However, it is still disputable whether illegal immigration is beneficial or harmful to the economy of the USA. Although most politicians and ...

The issue of illegal immigration has long been a complex and nuanced one, particularly in relation to the border between the American South and Mexico. Texas has been especially vocal both politically and legislatively against the allowance of illegal immigrants into the country on their borders. This is particularly true of late, given the Texas GOP legislature’s problems with unaccompanied children crossing the border into America from Mexico. Because of the comparative lack of infrastructure and inability to address the immigration problem, immigration reform is cited as a particularly urgent need in Texas. Texas’s immigration policy has been relatively ...

Immigration Reform

Immigration Reform - INTRODUCTION - Background The United States has been the guest to many foreign visitors. On many occasions these visitors turn to an opportunity to settle in the nation. Many government regimes have accepted immigrants into the country on favorable terms. For this reason, illegal immigrants have taken up the opportunity to settle in the United States. Stanley (2013) points out that the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S has risen significantly as the issue becomes politicized. Government heads realized the importance of immigrants in retaining their political significance. For this reason, they ...

The immigration history in America can be studied from four viewpoints namely: the colonial era, the mid nineteenth century, early twentieth century and after the year 1965. All the above brought into America a different yet distinct ethnicity, race and group. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw an approximated 175,000 Englishmen migrate into colonial America; half of which arrived as servants (Deege, Robert, Jon and Genovese 133). The 19C immigration was dominated by an incursion from Northern Europe, the 20th Century was characterized by Southern and Eastern European immigrants and the era subsequent to 1965 saw immigrants mostly originating ...

“We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.” This was a quote by Florida Senator Marco Rubio pertaining to the issue of immigration. When it comes to immigration, there are many things that have to be considered. What country the person is loyal to is among those questions. In many cases, there is always some loyalty to the country that they came from. The thing that has to be remembered is that there has to be allegiance ...

Immigration is a hot-button issue in the United States, and one that has been heavily politicized in recent years. Immigration reform is always an issue that politicians discuss at length, but there seems to be very little that changes from year to year in terms of immigration policy in the United States. While immigration and immigration reform is often framed as a social and political issue, it is equally important as an economic issue. The economic effects on the United States would be very great if immigration substantially increased in the next decade, with both positive and negative effects on the ...

The recent recession was blamed for various impacts on the American society. It had a tremendous impact on policies and budget cuts. Therefore, it is not surprising to connect the recession to one of the most influential processes in the American society building, meaning the process of migration. The main task of this paper is to find how the recession affected immigration process in the United States. The answer would be that recession had not decreased the immigration flow as much as it was expected and it resulted in more negative consequences rather than positive ones. This paper will therefore ...

Immigration reform is a complicated, but necessary policy. Most people agree current immigration policies need to be updated to meet the current demands of the country; and legal immigration should be encouraged and illegal immigration should be discouraged. These ideas are agreed upon when it comes to immigration reform; but most groups diverge sharply regarding the following three ideas: what to do about people already here illegally; how to restrict immigration (legal and illegal) and how to eliminate inequities between different classes of immigrants. How to get opposing groups to come together and realize that immigrants are an essential part ...

The 14th Amendment and the Protection of Civil Rights

QUALIFYING CITIZENSHIP Abstract

The 14th Amendment, and its “Citizenship Clause,” has been the means by which questions of citizenship are resolved. Over the past two years, a group of state lawmakers have sought a way to change the constitutional meaning of citizenship by circumventing the 14th Amendment without seeking to alter the Constitution itself. The attempt to create a dual birth certificate system is their attempt to identify and separate the American-born children of illegal aliens. In a violation of due process, this move to redefine what it means to be an American citizen is a legal matter, requiring the amending of the ...

Arizona anti immigration laws and other anti Mexican laws passed in recent years.

Introduction Arizona Senate Bill 1070 which is simply referred to as Arizona SB 1070 is a United States legislative Act that was the strictest and the broadest action against illegal immigration in the history of United States at the time of its passage. This act has received international and national interest and has stirred up a lot of controversy. U.S national law demands that aliens who are in the age bracket of 14 and over and who stay in the U.S for a period that is longer than thirty days should register with United States government and should carry the registration ...

Arizona anti immigration laws and other anti Mexican laws passed in recent years.

Introduction Arizona Senate Bill 1070 which is simply referred to as Arizona SB 1070 is a United States legislative Act that was the strictest and the broadest action against illegal immigration in the history of United States at the time of its passage. This act has received international and national interest and has stirred up a lot of controversy. U.S national law demands that aliens who are in the age bracket of 14 and over and who stay in the U.S for a period that is longer than thirty days should register with United States government and should carry the registration ...

Introduction: The Case for Open Borders: Analysis of cross-border illegal immigration from south . . .

Thesis: There are multiple opinions which are for or against the illegal-immigrants coming from the south of border, however it is more important to find a solution which is stable and is in the favor of the people of America.