United States Immigration

Donald Trump has recently made it a big point that immigration is a tremendous issue in the United States' economy. According to The Washington Post, “Immigration to the United States is the international movement of individuals who are not natives or do not possess citizenship in order to settle, reside, study or to take-up employment in the United States.” Immigration has been in the United States ever since the country was established. There are almost just as many advantages to immigration as there are disadvantages. With all things considered, the immigration we currently have today is not perfect and by any means not very well produced. First, there is a long history behind immigration in the United States. Second, there are also many
The immigration policies we have today are very confusing and could definitely use some revision. First off, there are a few different ways to legally get a visa to immigrate to the United States. One way you could get a visa is the family preference visa. How it works is if your immediate family members lived in a different country, you could legally let them immigrate to America. For example, if your brother Louis from France wanted to immigrate to America, he could get a visa and legally immigrate. The process is a little bit more complicated however. According to The American Immigration Council, “In order to balance the overall number of immigrants arriving based on family relationships, Congress established a complicated system for calculating the available number of family preference visas for any given year. The number is determined by starting with 480,000 and then subtracting the number of immediate relative visas issued during the previous year and the number of aliens ‘paroled’ into the U.S. during the previous year. Any unused employment preference immigrant numbers from the preceding year are then added to this sum to establish the number of visas that remain for allocation through the preference system. However, by law, the number of family-based visas allocated through the preference system may not be lower than 226,000. In reality, due to large numbers of immediate relatives, the actual
We have had immigration back to when the country was first established. There are also a lot of advantages and disadvantages behind immigration. Immigrants have a heavy impact on the United States economy, whether that impact is good or bad. In addition, the immigration policies today are definitely far from perfect. The policies need to be revised. It’s important to know the history of the United States immigration so that we don’t make some of the same mistakes again. It’s also important to see the pros and cons so that we can see both sides of the discussion, Lastly it’s significant to know the immigration system today works, so that we can work to improve