Hello,
Yep, ECONOMICS is drastically affected by immigration. It all comes out of the collective pocket of the tax payers whichever way it goes. It also impacts SOCIAL and POLITICAL ASPECTS.
Controversy results from ethnicity, benefits, jobs, settlement patterns, upward social mobility, crime, and voting patterns (which accrue to the supposed "savior").
HOWEVER, THE U.S.ACCEPTS more legal immigrants as PERMANENT residents than ALL other COUNTRIES in the WORLD "COMBINED"!!!!!!!!!! Selfish??????I THINK NOT!!!!!!!! And we DEPORT Them; not render the SEVERE punishment dealt out by many nations.
In 2008 we naturalized (made into U.S. CITIZENS) over ONE MILLION immigrants, most from Mexico, India and the Philippines. REMEMBER MORE THAN ALL THE COUNTRIES IN THE EAST AND WEST COMBINED!!!!!We live up to our American Statue of Liberty LEGALLY.
OUR BASIC NOTIONS "OF FAIRNESS" ARE BASED ON "LEGALITY" Mr. President!!!!!!!!!!
Ideally, Immigration law is supposed to determine when a person is an alien, how he/she gains citizenship and residence in the States. It lays out the attainment of the full rights of citizenship after five years of residency and serves as a protector of the nation's borders. Congress has full authority and Presidential powers are on refugee policy ONLY. Refugees are determined by the threat of hostile action in their native land.
Currently, Visas (not the credit card) determine immigrant status. Visas for IMMIGRANTS (allow work, permanent stay and eventually application for citizenship within quotas) and non-immigrant visas (for tourists, mostly do not allow work but can be renewed repeatedly.)
However, most of us don't even understand what we mean by the act of immigration. It comes in two forms, legal and illegal. Everyone understands when someone slips over the border illegally but not necessarily what is meant by legal immigration.
And why do we need laws for people to come into our country at all? Legal immigration is guided by two principles. The amount of space (or territory) available in a nation (WE HAVE LESS AND LESS) and the economic needs of the nation and that includes workers in specific areas of employment including employment that is no longer desired to be filled by the current citizens of a nation.
Our first policies began in 1790 with the NATURALIZATION ACT for whites only that was then AMENDED to include EVERYONE in 1875 when the U.S. Supreme Court designated the regulation of immigration through the federal government and not individual states. The fourteenth amendment in 1868 allowed children born in the U.S. immediate citizenship. They created the Immigration service in 1891. All race-based quotas were finally removed in 1952 in the McCARRAN-WALTER ACT.
Immigration leveled off until after WW1 THEN it increased substantially. In 1921, the Congress started the NATIONAL ORIGINS QUOTA ACT which limited legal immigration to 3% of the current ethnic makeup in the US which was lowered to 2% three years later and the Congress established the U.S. Border Patrol to enforce immigration laws. The purpose of SETING A QUOTA was to keep immigration levels well mixed and to control the cost of absorbing new immigrants.
FRANKLY, ONE OF THE FEW TIMES CONGRESS HAD MANAGED TO PASS A SENSIBLE LAW ON A CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT!!!!!!
But, of course, when something is TOO GOOD, our Congress can't leave it alone. Instead of just changing the percentages, RAISING OR LOWERING them as the case might be; THEY MADE A NEW LAW AND COMBINED Immigration law WITH a NATIONALITY ACT SO THAT it covered the seasonal workers needed by agriculture. They then FORMED AN ALLIANCE with Mexico known as the BRACERO PROGRAM.
The Bracero Program was a WW2 program that brought in 350,000 good Mexican farm laborers to enrich America's farm land for a pittance yet more than they made at home. The Mexicans found most Americans living better than their families. When the program ran out, they told their children and grandchildren about the "land of milk and honey over the border" which in turn encouraged today's problems of illegal entry on the MEXICAN border for ARIZONA. THE DAMN CHICKENS ALWAYS COME HOME TO ROOST!!!!!!!!!
Naturally, once WOUNDED, we need to SHOOT more holes in the law and in 1965 Congress rebuilt the NATIONAL ORIGINS ACT which gave immigration privileges to families so they could be reunited in the U.S. and proponents claimed it would increase the number of skilled workers. It didn't. WHY NOT EXPAND THE ORIGINAL QUOTA?????????WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY????? THAT OLD LAW ???? THAT NO ONE PAYS ANY ATTENTION TO EXCEPT WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the refugee problem arose did we look back to the GOOD OLD LAW OF QUOTAS????????Hell no, we passed a new law called the REFUGEE ACT OF 1980 and then finally thought about allowing a quota increase, however unbalanced. The only time we had previously referred to the original law was for keeping limits as political fodder and enforcement.
Legal immigration was FINALLY raised from 1970s through the 1990s with limits in the 80's and 90s set at 700,000-900,000 annually and through 2000 we took in 16.7 MILLION immigrants. It's not like we were denying many the American Dream!!!!!!!!!! With increased numbers from the Caribbean and Latin America and some few from Asia, we also granted amnesty for some illegals, created a system for refugees, and have finally continued to raise some quotas (not in a balanced pattern) based on need.
This is an abbreviated history of immigration law and if you need more please Google Legal immigration but is designed to give some insight into legal immigration. I may come back to this again if I see the need.
Of course, since 9/11 there has been a tightening of rules and the HOMELAND SECURITY ACT in 2002 was supposed to provide us with a sense of calm but with the "loosey-goosey" state of our borders, one wonders what good most of the current legislation can do?????????
I firmly believe NEW LEGISLATION is needed. (DID I SAY THAT?????????) to allow and fund STATES on the borders to enforce legal immigration not with guns but with border posts for entering the country legally (with the agreement of the adjoining country.) Perhaps if we offer a legal possibility to aliens, it will end the abuse.
Our borders have border patrol posts for allowing legal entry and exit. How hard could it be to set up immigration posts for allowing a legal entry as an immigrant. It's better than having them scurry across as an illegal alien both for them and for us. (SINCE IT'S THE GOVERNMENT PROBABLY MORE DIFFICULT THAN I VISUALIZE).
Although it might also require more consulates in Mexico for the Mexican border and in other Latin American countries as well as in Asia, Europe, and the middle East to process applications quickly and easily before the actual crossing at a border post; it would be well worth the additional expense to return immigration lawfulness to our land
Computers allow instant information on quotas and immigration status. Provide a way to keep the quotas fluid and flexible without abuse. I don't believe many people want to run the risk of illegality if they have a legal choice. That way our borders offer freedom and our nation which is a NATION OF LAWS can once again start to fulfill its promise.
Cheers, Connie
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