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Essay: Immigration Law

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Introduction

The immigration law in the United States is complicated, and there is a wide range of

confusion on the way it works. The U.S immigration law was created under the following

guidelines: the family's reunification, admission of immigrants possessing skills useful to the

economy of the United States, refugee protection, and diversity promotion. The immigration

policy gets governed by a body of law termed as The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

The body offers permission to up to 675,000 immigrants who have a permanent visa in every

year. Every year, the president is required to set the number of refugees to get admitted to the

United States, with the help of Congress, through the United States Refugee Resettlement

Process (Cox & Rodríguez, 2020). However, once an individual acquires an immigrant visa then

they become a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. Through my experiences at the internship in

Law Office of Mojgan Khoshvaght Gigasari I pointed out different ideologies in the immigration

law, understood it at large and pointed out the changes that should get embraced to make the law

better. This essay speculates the literature review and recommendations concerning immigration

law.

Literature Review

Principally, for a nation with ultimate power, deciding who will get allowed to stay in

their nation is a vital question. Besides, the united states cannot allow every individual in the

globe who would like to live there, to do so. Although the society has a great capacity and with

institutions to cater for such a happening, a very laissez-faire method would distinguish what it

means to be a citizen. Broadly, every country's citizenship comes along with obligations and

rights, but it is up to the U.S institutions for democrats to make decisions on who should take

part. The dilemma is the source of problems that counter immigration in America. The
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immigration policies are destined to limit entry and enforce laws restricting those getting to the

country and stray those that seem undesirable.

In the late 1800s, people from different parts of the world left their homes and moved to

America from American industrial research. They were fleeing from job and land shortages, crop

failure, high taxes, and famine. They came to the USA since it had the perception that it was the

land of economic opportunity. Some came looking for personal freedom since they were running

from religious and political persecution. Therefore, with hope for a better future, over 12 million

immigrants settled in America between 1870 and 1900. Most of them settled near ports.

Different cities like those that were sparsely populated attracted immigrants by offering them

jobs or farming land. Once they settled, immigrants searched for work. Besides, there were never

enough opportunities for them, and employers took advantage of them. In that, men got paid less

than other workers, and women were paid less than men. The immigrants suffered physical and

verbal abuse from the stereotypes and discrimination (Cox & Rodríguez, 2020).

In the 1990s, immigration in the U.S grew by 11.3 million from history. After that, the

impacts of immigration to countries like America have been looked at large. Through

researchers' conclusions, immigrants possess large impacts on unemployment chances and wages

on the national population. There is little evidence concerning the economic importance

presented in finding out if immigrants lower wages for native employees. Economic conditions

and job chances play a huge role in individuals moving from one country to the other. Although

it is appealing to check the roles of immigrants in the marketplace, we should first stipulate why

we choose certain spots in the whole nation.

Through earlier researches (Lopez et al., 2017) on pointing out the reasons why some

immigrants choose a certain location, we have come to an assumption that they settle in areas
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that earlier recorded higher immigrants' presence. Studies by Al-Khatib & Rathod (2017)

indicate that a foreign man will reside in a place with a similar ethnic population. Education also

plays a major role during the choice of location; immigrants migrate internally in more frequent

designs then natives in America. There is a major relationship between new immigrants'

destinations and the number of individuals born in the same country and raised in states. The

major issue of refugees is that they have little or no influence on where they choose to settle. The

U.S department has agreements with the resettlement of refugees' bodies to track secondary

immigration designs.

Researcher by Lopez et al. (2017) have tried to speculate models applied in determining

immigration effects. Through conventional approaches, immigration from other countries sprouts

due to low skill wages and higher unemployment rates. Others apply unorthodox methods to

measure immigration causes by alternative mechanisms like mixes in regional, output, and

participation of native labor force rates. Economically, the immigrants' effects are felt unequally.

Most companies in the U.S enjoy from diverse and larger workforce since most of the

immigrants are concentrated on higher and lower skill ends of the workforce, which favors the

U.S labor force, which is concentrated in the middle. Most American citizens possess high

school diplomas and other postsecondary levels, whereas the immigrants get squeezed to the

extremes having less than high school or only college degree.

Studies by Armenta & Alvarez (2017) indicate that immigration has boosted the economy

of the U.S besides recent difficulties of maintaining its economic advantage and influence in the

globe. If America loses its economic strength, then its power will reduce. Therefore, making the

policy of immigration in the U.S right will be critical to the political and economic leadership.
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The current growth of the American labor force is through immigration, and similarly, the future

growth will come from current workforces or immigrants delaying retirements.

Nonetheless, studies by Wadhia (2016) also indicate that other people commit

immigration fraud by working, offering false data, or giving different individual information to

acquire immigration passages. A business can also perform immigration fraud via solicitation.

An individual or business can create a means for a person to get to America illegally. They can

provide fake documents or forged by another individual, of which the owner of the details has

been dead for years. Fraud is through false documentation or forgery. The business usually

charges cash higher than the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services. The problem with

immigration fraud is that U.S authorities will have no way to monitor the foreign individuals

getting to their country. Similarly, scammers also pose as legal representatives of the

immigration services, and they squeeze the immigrants all the money they possess. Therefore, to

cope with immigration fraud, authorities' lawyers must intervene and ensure honesty and make

scammers get arrested by the immigration department of the U.S.

Recommendations

When I was taking part in my internship at Law Office of Mojgan Khoshvaght Gigasari, I

realized that the moment families include members with undocumented immigration standing,

they: create separation with loved one's fear, yields psychological stress plus it adds commercial

hardship. Generally, children worry more when adults around them seem worried that something

might happen. They can get distressed and experience emotional fluctuations in the

independence of their age. On the other hand, parents worry on the way to cope with their young

one's behaviors and emotions (Johnson, 2018).

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One design of coping with children's emotions that I learned was frequent

communication with their parents. Children often need information and to be given answers at

any cost for their questions. As a parent, you should apply your children's development stages

and personalities to have a conversation with them. Nonetheless, America is a nation of

immigrants (Torche & Sirois, 2019).

I have learned that America should encourage legal immigration since, at large, most

other nationals come to the U.S to work. They come to America prospecting a better life, work,

and proper wages, which were less available in their country of origin. As demonstrated by the

current recession, the only design to discourage illegal immigration is to stop offering

immigrants jobs. But when the American economy recovers, the demand for the task force will

also rise. The current slowdown in the economy should get identified as a chance to slow down

immigration in the U.S and serve the local people's needs first until the economy shoots again.

Therefore, creating an immigration policy that offers immigrants a timely means to venture to

the united states will reduce undocumented immigration and encourage legal immigrants

(Facchini, Margalit & Nakata, 2016).

Another idea I would recommend is that the U.S government strengthen its border

measures. Generally, enforcement of borders is critical to nation safeguarding against illegal

immigrants. With the current immigrant reforms that allow legal paths for immigration, border

rules are needed to catch and deter those trying to get to America without proper authorization.

Enforcements along borders are essential for national security but also a central section for

American immigration procedures.

In conclusion, I learned that America's national interests need a better immigration

policy, which will assist the U.S in boosting its diplomatic, economic, and military standing
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globally. Therefore, the united states must generously welcome immigrants by an efficient and

orderly legal design; they must immigrants possess an understandable and sensible visa and laws

of immigration, which will allow access to both temporary and permanent visitors. Thus, the U.S

must secure and control its borders, deny those who are not permitted entry plus deny work for

those unauthorized to be in America. A Task Force must take control despite the difficulties of

passing the legislation (Wadhia, 2016).

References
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Al-Khatib, A., & Rathod, J. (2017). Equity in Contemporary Immigration Enforcement: Defining

Contributions and Countering Criminalization. U. Kan. L. Rev., 66, 951.

Armenta, A., & Alvarez, I. (2017). Policing immigrants or policing immigration? Understanding

local law enforcement participation in immigration control. Sociology Compass, 11(2),

e12453.

Cox, A., & Rodríguez, C. M. (2020). The president and immigration law. Oxford University

Press, USA.

Facchini, G., Margalit, Y., & Nakata, H. (2016). Countering public opposition to immigration:

The impact of information campaigns.

Johnson, K. R. (2018). Lessons about the Future of Immigration Law from the Rise and Fall of

DACA. UCDL Rev., 52, 343.

Lopez, W. D., Kruger, D. J., Delva, J., Llanes, M., Ledón, C., Waller, A., ... & Israel, B. (2017).

Health implications of an immigration raid: findings from a Latino community in the

Midwestern United States. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 19(3), 702-708.

Torche, F., & Sirois, C. (2019). Restrictive immigration law and birth outcomes of immigrant

women. American journal of epidemiology, 188(1), 24-33.

Wadhia, S. S. (2016). Is immigration law national security law. Emory LJ, 66, 669.