An Immigration Policy is any policy of a state that deals with the transit of persons across its borders, but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country. Immigration has been a view of legislation for United States policymakers since its founding.
The first signs of a somewhat structured Immigration Policy was in 1970, Congress established a process enabling people born abroad to become United States citizens. The first federal law was put in place in 1875, prohibiting the admission of criminals and prostitutes. Then Congress established a new immigration policy, a National Origins Quota System, as a part of the Quota Law in 1921. It was revised in 1924. The Quota Law of 1921 and 1924 was made for immediate family of United States citizens and other family members, either by exempting them or granting them preference within restrictions. Subsequent laws continued to focus on family reunification as a major goal of immigration policy.
The Nationals-origins quota system was in place until the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 was established. The system provided preferences for relatives of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents and for immigrants with job skills deemed useful to the United States. The 1965 amendments are still in place, even though they have been modified. In 1976, the categorical preference system was extended to applicants from the western hemisphere. In 1978, the numerical restrictions for eastern and western hemisphere immigration were combined into a single world wide ceiling of 290,000. Then there was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 addressed the issue of unauthorized immigration. It tried to enhance enforcement and to create new pathways to legal immigration. The Immigration Act of 1990 added a category of admission based in diversity and increased the world wide immigration ceiling to the current "flexible" cap of 675,000 per year.
After the Immigration Act of 1990 came the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 addressed border enforcement and the use of social services by immigrants because of the continuing concerns about unauthorized immigrants. The Act increased the number of border patrol agents, introduced new border control measures, reduced government benefits available to immigrants, and created a pilot program in which employers and social services agencies could check by telephone or electronically to verify the eligibility of immigrants applying for work or social service benefits.
In 2002, the Homeland Security Act created the department of Homeland Security (DHS) and, restructured the Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS), the agency is responsible for immigration services, border enforcement, and border inspections. Almost all the functions of INS were transferred to DHS. Prior laws had combined immigrant service and enforcement functions within the same agency. Those functions are now divided among different bureaus of DHS. Immigration and naturalization are the responsibility of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The border enforcement functions of the INS are split between to bureaus: The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Currently the immigration policy offers two distinct ways for non citizens to enter the United States lawfully: permanent admission and temporary admission.
Immigration Policy in the United States has changed numerous times over the years, yet there is not a stable and structured Immigration Policy. Currently I don't think that there will ever be an immigration policy that society agrees on because both parties have different views and with the changes in the our government there will never be a stable immigration policy. Another reason is one minute society is fine with immigrants working here because its less money and the next they protesting that immigrants are bringing down America. Society just needs to decide on what they want and stick to it because flip-flopping has not solved anything and it never will.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
They Deserve The Right To Be Happy Too!!!
In the blog "Equality and the Gay Marriage Issue," it talks about the gay and lesbian community should gain the right to legalize same-sex unions in all American states. I agree with the author of this blog because homosexuals are no different than heterosexuals. I hope society can see this and hopefully push to legalize same sex marriage within the next 2 to 3 years or even before that.
I think that homosexuals have all the same rights as every heterosexual in the world, especially in the United States because it is the so called land of opportunities and equality. Society and this government should understand that homosexuals should obtain the right to be legally married just like everyone else, because they love just like you and me, so who are we to deny them that right. Society just needs to understand we are in 2010 equality should not be a right it should be natural to us. society also need to understand that homosexuals do not decide to be that way, they were born like that, and even though they are people who choose to be gay are wrong because I feel like they are making the people who did not choose that lifestyle suffer, and that is wrong.
Another topic involving the gay and lesbian community that I think you should have added is that they should not be entitled to adopt the safety of the children because the government is worried about the safety of the child. This is just ridiculous why would they ever be worried about the safety of a child in a homosexual household. These people are acting like a homosexual household is worse than a heterosexual household, look at television they are bad people everywhere, they are rapist, abusers etc in heterosexual households, so is that safer than a homosexual household because you are worried about the child be bullied because of his/her parents or their sexual orientation might be changed that is nonsense.
No one should deny anybody the right to be happy and have a family because you do not accept their lifestyle and you think it is a sin, so they will go to hell. That is not your position to judge because in the end, whether it is wrong or right their lifestyle is between them and God. Not between you, them, and God.
"Only God Can Judge Me"- Tupac Shakur
I think that homosexuals have all the same rights as every heterosexual in the world, especially in the United States because it is the so called land of opportunities and equality. Society and this government should understand that homosexuals should obtain the right to be legally married just like everyone else, because they love just like you and me, so who are we to deny them that right. Society just needs to understand we are in 2010 equality should not be a right it should be natural to us. society also need to understand that homosexuals do not decide to be that way, they were born like that, and even though they are people who choose to be gay are wrong because I feel like they are making the people who did not choose that lifestyle suffer, and that is wrong.
Another topic involving the gay and lesbian community that I think you should have added is that they should not be entitled to adopt the safety of the children because the government is worried about the safety of the child. This is just ridiculous why would they ever be worried about the safety of a child in a homosexual household. These people are acting like a homosexual household is worse than a heterosexual household, look at television they are bad people everywhere, they are rapist, abusers etc in heterosexual households, so is that safer than a homosexual household because you are worried about the child be bullied because of his/her parents or their sexual orientation might be changed that is nonsense.
No one should deny anybody the right to be happy and have a family because you do not accept their lifestyle and you think it is a sin, so they will go to hell. That is not your position to judge because in the end, whether it is wrong or right their lifestyle is between them and God. Not between you, them, and God.
"Only God Can Judge Me"- Tupac Shakur
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