What are the main concerns in shaping an immigrant policy?
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I would think it would be not to take jobs away from the people of the country.
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1. Protect the US first. Cover the borders and ports to deny entry to those who intend to do us harm, and materials which can be used to harm us within the framework of the law.\n\nIt's not that simple, you don't necessarily know who's going to 'do you harm' and don't want to unfairly discriminate against innocent people.\n\n2. Identify and rebuild co-operation and trust with countries and groups who abhor terrorism and the taking of innocent life.\n\nI agree.\n\n3. Build information databases on known terrorists, and those who aid them.\n\nI believe that's already being done.\n\n4. Share that information with those who we reasonably feel abide by international law, and invite them to add information or dispute information they feel is wrong.\n\nYeah, could do. Do countries not do that already? Most countries would not be of any help in the matter.\n\n5. Make binding agreements with them to act jointly or independently as necessary on information we both agree is correct.\n\nOk, but in what way would you 'act'? All known terrorists are monitored and there is a little a country where the terrorist is not residing can do.
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(1) Make the process of immigrating legally more secure.  As it is now, for example, the different offices within the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services do not have a good means of communicating with one another.  Whenever I moved, I had to send letters to the different offices processing different aspects of my immigration process, letting them know of my change of address.  This is clearly a problem.  If the BCIS is supposed to monitor the comings and goings of immigrants before granting the permanent residency (and this is something that most Americans would agree should happen, given the heightened concerns about national security in recent times), then the BCIS should have some sort of computerized information system that allows it to share information among its different offices.  As a future citizen, it does not make me feel safe in the least bit that the BCIS relies on applicants to send letters to different offices to let them know of their whereabouts, simply because they do not have the technology to share that information.  By stressing the weaknesses--on matters of national security--of immigration procedure, we can make sure that Congress takes a hard look at the other inefficiencies of the system.\n\n(2) Make the immigration procedure more humane: After I got married to an American citizen, I applied for permanent residence.  Had I known what I was going to be subjected to, I probably would have simply extended my F-1 student visa (I came to study a PhD).  Instead, I got treated like a pseudo-criminal for two and a half years: I had to apply for 'advanced parole' (with five months in advance) in order to visit ailing relatives back home.  Obviously, this didn't work out all that well, since I had to anticipate when my relatives would have ailments in order to visit them.  I also had to renounce three different invitations to conferences in Europe that would have bolstered my curriculum vitae extraordinarily, simply because the invitations came within three months of the events, and I didn't have the time to apply for said 'advanced parole.'\n\n(3) We can vote for the party that shows less contempt for our common background.  I may have more reasons to resent illegal immigration than many Americans (since I actually had to go through a painful and humilliating process to become a legal permanent resident), but I do not resent them at all, and this is largely the case because I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have had the educational and economic opportunities to get to where I am, and I know how difficult it is for ordinary hard-working, low-wage people to get here legally (if you ask me, it is nearly impossible).  I also detect a remarkable degree of hypocrisy on the part of the nativists, whose ancestors at some point came to the US, and they did so most likely without an education, without money, the beneficiaries of a laxer immigration policy that by and large didn't turn away people because of their social class (think of Ellis island).  So by acquiring the American citizenship, we can help tone down the rhetoric, hopefully bring back the US to a more open system of legal immigration, all the while joining efforts with those who would like to secure the American southern border.\n\n(4) We can also tone down our own rhetoric, where it is excessive and ludicrous.  Americans have a right to want to protect their middle and lower classes from the effects of globalization, and we have to understand and embrace this.  While illegal immigration is not the cause of the economic woes of the lower and middle classes here, it is true nonetheless that illegal immigrants bring down wages on average.  (One may argue that they also offer more competition to low-wage American workers, and that competition is indeed a useful remedy to economic stagnation, but this argument only goes so far.)  So let us be responsible, and let us not see bigotry in every corner of American polit
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I am assuming this is a class assignment since it has been asked a couple times tonight..\n\n "Do you think that immigration should be limited or that any limits should be lifted - Why"\n\n"Do you think that it is different today than in the past and why?"\n\n"Do you think that illegal immigration should be punished and why?"\n\n"Who do you think should have to pay for the immigration process (background checks etc.)?"\n\n"What do you think should be the criteria, if any, for someone wanting to be a citizen (in the past there were job and or monetary requirements, should there be now and why)?"\n\n"Should our immigration laws be stricter or more lenient than other countries'?"\n\nHope this gets you started. Good Luck!
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Your thesis needs to be arguable,  such as Better border defenses will curb illegal immigration,  or Better border defenses will not curb illegal immigration or The government needs to inact better immigration laws to help those people who legally want to immigrate to the US or The US needs to use whatever means necessary to control immigration.  That way you can add in legislation, border defenses etc.
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hope the following website would be ablet to provide the info you seek. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and it has a section dedicated to any TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES, which i suppose what you are trying to find. Good luck.
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In truth, McCain and Hillary both want the same thing. Mainstream politicians in the U.S. envision solving the immigration problem by erasing borders. If there is no distinction between the U.S. and Mexico, than no one is an immigrant between these two nations. The corporate elite and mainstream U.S. politicians dream of one country stretching from the North pole to the Panama canal. A significant part of that plan will begin within the next few months when amnesty will be granted to most if not all immigrants in the United States.
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Illegal aliens.\n\nHigh Taxes.\n\nToo many people.
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Illegal immigration is the biggest topic right now as far as border control. So is the bill passing through the senate about English becoming the official language of America. \n\nThe NSA scandal is mostly conspiracy theories at this point in the media. \n\nYou'll cover more ground on the immigration issues. I am giving you links to the most well-respected media outlets.\n\nGood luck on your paper :O)
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I would put the emotions and nationalism aside and look at what other countries are doing about their migrant workers. We should identify them, create laws so they can pay taxes, provide a way for their families to stay together, and set up a program to provide for their basic health, human, and education needs.
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I don't think immigrants are allowed depending on where they come from. It is a matter of happen-to-be.
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Immigration should be addressed as a country... not based on your ancestry. Fight for what you believe in... decide for yourself, not for other people if flooding one country with limited resources of land with people is a good idea. \n\nMaybe you can come up with an alternative. Not just to let them in or kick them out. The issue is much larger than that. The issue is what brings the immigrants here. That is the root of the problem.... that is what needs the mending. Not the individuals trying to find solstice in the nearest thing to heaven they know only to find it is far from heaven. \n\nMaybe a bit of a biased answer but still, the sentiment exists that you must think outside of the box. It isn't about taking sides... it is about solving a problem. Preventing a fight.
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I think immigration's out-of-control. I think that a lot of our politicians have some bright ideas about 'one world' etc., and some of those don't quite work out the way they planned, and then there's those gosh-darn unintended consequences etc.\nIf people keep it civil, immigration's no problem, but we're well beyond 'civil' in some cases, and policies need to be improved and amended to slow this stuff down quite a bit....bum's rush doesn't cut it...
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How about a 50-state consensus on immigration enforcment, instead? Write your local legislators today, and ask that cohesive \nand effective national border/immigration policy be established, and enforce to that standard...
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Racism is a valid concern in this country.  However, it is not a valid argument in the immigration debate.\n\nThere is nothing racist about the law.  Either you follow it or you break it.  It's really quite simple.
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go to their website on immigration.  I think their rules are quite strict.
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What is here? Do you mean how to find immigrants to the United States? If that’s the case, it all depends on when. Need more information to answer with any depth.