Reforming American Immigration

The immigration patterns of the United States have fluctuated over the years, some years having little while others see a rising amount of immigrants, both legal and illegal, looking for opportunities to improve their lives. The amount of illegal immigration is a problem since many take advantage of the social services provided by the government without contributing towards the country since they are not citizens and many people see these illegal immigrants as a threat to their employment. Illegal immigrants do affect the U.S negatively in a number of ways, but if those illegal immigrants were to have a safe passageway towards gaining citizenship, the immigrants would contribute greatly towards the

First, congress needs to get a better plan to fix the immigration system that will improve the life to all Americans. Immigrants can create new jobs for Americans. For native born Americans, they can seek out entrepreneur opportunities. They can create their own business which means no negative wage effects. As said “Immigrants can make a vegetable business or a fruit business more viable, and that creates jobs for Americans downstream (Mobarak 2017).” They can also make our economy strong, with their skills that upgrade our labor force. In the article the author says “By cutting on immigration, the country will miss an opportunity for new inventions and ventures that could generate the jobs that the president is so committed to bring back” (Hoban 2017). Better immigrations laws can add more business opening, a demand of new and exciting products, and engineering and technical job labor and make America prosperous economically as

of the United States. These are a few of the reforms that former President Bush had proposed so as to slow down the number of illegal immigrants that come into the United States each year.

Nice’s article focuses on the aspects of the 1990 Immigration Act which relate to employment visas. She explains that this legislature will result in an overall increase of immigration to America in her statement, “Effective October 1, 1991, there will be almost a three-fold increase in employment-based permanent resident visas.” Although, she does construes that these visas will be mainly for skilled workers, “Persons seeking to enter the United States as immigrants on the basis of an offer of employment from a U.S. employer may do so in larger numbers under the new law as long as they present unique expertise, training and experience,” on the flip side, “Immigrant visas for unskilled workers, such as domestics, will be restricted, requiring approximately twice the current waiting period” (Nice). The overall growth in American immigration in the 1990s was most likely due to the Immigration Act of 1990. In the Effects of immigrants on the 1980-1990 U.S. wage experience by Maria E. Enchautegui, the author explains that “According to the 1990 Census, 8.6 million immigrants

The part of the proposal that I really like though is the fact that the Border Patrol would be doubled to 28,000 agents over time. There will be more people around to watch the fence, which should decrease this problem drastically.

The American public seems to be aware of the issue in general, but is short of the details. There has certainly been a healthy amount of media coverage of immigration reform, but as the coverage itself is unclear as to how best to frame the problems, it mostly informs about the existence of the issue rather than informing about the issue itself. As such, there is conflicting public opinion about the issue. This mirrors the views of politicians. This could be the result of the fact that immigration reform is often framed as a singular issue when it is not. Immigration reform is an omnibus issue – a series of issues that are all loosely related to one another. There is little real connection between the H-1B visa issue and the undocumented immigrant issue. If the public and the politicians are slightly confused about immigration reform, the framing of multiple issues as a single one is part of the problem.

In the United States, immigration has been high topic of debate. As of 2015, 13.5 percent of the United States population of 321.4 billion were immigrants (Jie). Immigration has been shaping the way America works for many years now. It has brought changes to the economy, workforce, culture, language and politics just to name a few changes. America is often referred to as the melting pot of cultures. Where the “American dream” can be reached as long as you are willing to work hard. However, citizens also demand strict boarders to prevent illegal workers but we still want the free movement of goods. A lot of legislative bills have been past in recent years that have brought change to immigration and the way it is done. The top five bills that have affected the country are as follows; The Immigration Reform and Control Act, IRCA, of 1986 penalized employees for hiring unauthorized workers. However, did nothing towards changing the immigration system or provide resources to implement the employer sanctions provisions. The Immigration Act of 1990 overhauled the immigration system by raising the number of permanent vistas form 290,000 to 675,000 and allotted 555,000 visas annually of underserved counties. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibly Act, IIRAIRA, of 1996 dealt with government spending and a three or ten year bar on returning to the United States for people who were caught without proper documentations from applying for asylum status within one year

In every presidential administration, immigration policies are significant area of debate. There are many policies that are proposed in Trump Administration due to differing opinion of the administration. Currently policies on immigration include on Deferred Action for Childhood (DACA) which is protecting more than 800,000 immigrants in the United States. Moreover it also includes policies on increasing wages for H1-B visas. (H1-B Visa). Additionally, the Raise Act, (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act, it essentially sends 50000 visas to countries that send few immigrants over to the USA to promote diversity. Trump Administration has proposed to end diversity visas to protect its local citizens and employment. All these proposed changes have both positive and negative impact on GDP (Gross Domestic Product), employment/unemployment rates, government taxes.

comprehensive immigration reform could bring to this country, to the native- born and immigrants workers as well. Also, he makes emphasis in how the number of undocumented immigrants has increased since 1990’s; therefore, the economy of United States has dramatically increased.

That is good for the economy because the country is getting more money than it would if it were not allowing these undocumented immigrants to stay. It could add between $1.4-$3.6 trillion in taxable income (Miranda). It would also cut the budget deficit by $1.4 billion and increase government revenue by $2.3 billion over ten years (Miranda). There are plenty of advantages to the economy if this bill passes.

The public engagement of the white House posted on their web 10 reasons why they needed the Dream Act. Summarizing argument's that two secretaries including other people have made for the act. The dream act will help our economy marketing easier for immigration enforcements efforts on undocumented immigrants "Who pose a threat to our country" (Zehr, 2010,). The development relief and education for aliens minors act or dream act provide a path for legalization for undocumented high school graduates who meet the requirements of completing two years of college, military service, have entered United States before the age of 16, must be between the age of 12 and 35 to complete the application, good moral character, and no criminal record. If the congress passed the dream act it would add $329 billion to U.S. economy impacting it by $181 billion creating 1.4 million new jobs and more than $10 billion increase revenue by 2030. Many Dream Act opponents call it an immigration amnesty. They say the proposal would immediately reward immigrant children with conditional lawful permanent resident status – and, in just a few years, they would become U.S. Citizens. Their criticisms do not reflect how immigration agencies operate immigration reform will be addressed by the Obama administration this year. Republican senators they were ready to announce the outline of a broad immigration reform bill that would include a path to “earned legalization”

As an old saying goes: “Everything is a two-edged sword!” although the U.S. has been benefits a lot form the upcoming immigrant, there are a lot of social and political problem associate with it. As politician often put when they made the speech: “current immigration system in the United States is broken.” There are several reasons why the immigration system in the U.S. needed to be reformed: families are separated, immigrant workers are exploited, people died when they try to across the border, and the discrimination against immigrants.

In David Bier’s article, Ignorant Immigration Reform, he starts off by discussing the recent immigration bill introduced by two republican Senators, Cotton and Perdue. This bill proposed that due to the high increase of immigration and how much it hurts the American wage, that America like many

    Decreasing illegal immigration was Donald Trump’s main plan for the wall. Research has shown that only about 9,000 of the average hundreds of thousands of people that attempt to illegally immigrate across the border each

In February 2017, a new immigration bill was introduced in the Senate. This bill is known as the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act (RAISE Act). The RAISE Act aims to improve the economy by cutting the number of green cards in half, causing the number of legal immigrants per year to be halved. In addition to this, it will amend the Immigration and Nationality act in order to eliminate the idea of diverse immigration. This new bill would cap the number of refugee admissions at 50,000 per year, remove immigrant welfare, remove family priority (unless for spouses or minors), and change the employment green card system into a point based