...Higgins, John K. “Immigration Reform Could Open the Door for IT Talent.” E-Commerce Times 2/6/13 John K Higgins wrote an article on the impact that “green cards” and H-1B visa recipients could have on the United States. Higgins discusses how highly-skilled non-immigrants have the ability to improve the U.S. if there visit is made permanent. These non-immigrants are typically those who hold a degree in science, technology, engineering and mathematics also known as “STEM” or those who are striving to obtain a degree. Several businesses support the effort because they feel as though H-1B holders with these skills could be beneficial to their companies. The government noticed the proposals, which led to the bill “Immigration Innovation Act of 2013”. Higgins separates his article into three sections titling them “Visa Reform and High-Tech Funding”, “Costs and Benefits for Tech Sector”, and “Congressional Hurdles and Outlook” In “Visa Reform and High-Tech Funding” Higgins goes into details of the bill and how the revenue will promote funding. He also classifies this segment by the related topics within the bill. The bill is designed to initiate the growth of H-1B visas and the access to “green cards” for high-skilled non-immigrants. An H-1B visa is a program that temporarily permits employers to hire foreign workers. The initial time frame their allowed to work is three to six years. In spite of the time period, The Immigration Innovation Act increased the limit for visas to sixty...
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...Since the amnesty Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 IRCS (USCIS 1986) signed by the President Ronald Regal, which provided amnesty for 3 million illegal immigrants, in returns for increased border security and penalties for companies “knowingly” hiring illegal immigrants. Aside from creating the H-2A visa seasonal employment, IRCA failed to create new avenue for legal immigration. The combination of amnesty and inadequate avenue for legal immigration exacerbated the problem for illegal immigration. The law was supposed to be a comprehensive solution with provision intended to clamp down on border security but those provision were never enforced and the subsequent explosion in illegal crossing has resulted in more than 11 illegal immigrants living in the United States now. Texas is the state with most illegal immigrants with an estimated of 1.8 million illegal immigrant living in Texas now, compared to 1.1 million in 2000 (???). In ten years, that represents increase of 54 percent or 70,000.00 persons each year coming to the State illegally. The amnesty of 1986 brought many benefits to the illegal immigrants but also the immediate family members such as spouses, children and parents were also benefited because they could join the family member in the United States later on. I was personally one of the benefited with this amnesty because I could immigrate to the United States in the late 1990’s. During the last 20 years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called...
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...| Immigration Reform | Why it should be Approved | IMMIGRATION REFORM Immigration, the popular government topic we hear about every day, and are not nearly close to resolving. Immigration, immigration reform, amnesty, Dream Act, and the “Dreamers” are all popular news topics these days. Immigration reform should be the path way to citizenship for all illegal immigrants, providing work permits, helping stimulate money for the economy and help keep families together. Provding work permits in the US for illegal immigrants is a great benefit to them. In August of 2012 President Obama’s administration approved the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “As of May 31, 2013, USCIS has accepted about 520,000 DACA applications. They have approved a little over 365,000 and denied 3,816 applications.” (Leiva, 2013) This was a major accomplishment for the Dreamers who in 2001 introduced the DREAM Act and was denied in several occasions. Although DACA is a temporary solution to immigration reform it’s a great step forward. The majority of the applicants are college graduates with Associates and Bachelor’s degrees who until now weren’t able to work in their graduate field. Even though some states have opposed President Obama’s order for DACA with restricting approved applicants with not being able to have a driver’s license they have overcome it with other means or moving to a DACA friendly state. Immigrants who got approved under the age of 30 are able to work legally...
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...An immigration Reform It is not news that our immigration system is broken and it is in urgent need of an immigration reform. Throughout the years, many families have been separated from their loved ones because the government has still not sign an immigration reform. Families live day-by-day in fear of deportation. We have to do something about the immigration process and finally come up with a reform that will see everyone as a human beings and not illegal aliens. There is no question that this country was built by immigrants, yet the government is afraid to let people in. They only want people of a certain category. Only those with an impeccable record, scientists and those workers in high demand. But others with less than this attributions to the country would not qualify for the reform that the government wants. “Senate bill 744 establishes clear preferences regarding the type of immigrant the United States should accept, the upwards striving student with an impeccable record, the computer programmer recruited from Mumbai to Silicon Valley.” On November 20, 2014 President Obama announced executive action to protect millions of immigrants from deportation, called DACA. But it was only two categories that qualify. “The first are the undocumented parents of United States citizens or legal permanent residents who have been in the United States since January 1, 2010. The second are undocumented children who arrived in the United States before the age of sixteen and have...
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...Carol Riddick ENGL100 Nov. 22, 2010 Immigration Reform Roughly 12 million illegal immigrants are in the United States, about 4 percent of the nation's population. Many undocumented children were brought into the U.S. by their illegal immigrant parents as babies or toddlers. Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result. According to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, the majority of illegal immigrants, about 7 million, come from Mexico. The U.S. government should change the requirements for obtaining legal status for illegal immigrants. The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) Act is proposed federal legislation that would allow the children of undocumented immigrants who graduate from high school to earn conditional permanent residency if they complete two years in the military or at college. Eligible students must have entered the US before the age of 16, been living in the US for at least five consecutive years, be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of applying, and have good moral character. The legislation was first introduced in the Senate in August 2001, but was stalled in Congress for 9 years and most recently re-introduced in the Senate and House in March 2009. The DREAM Riddick 2 ACT would help immigrant students become legal residents of the United...
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...Immigration Reform Is Imperative John Doe University of Good Times Almost 350,000 immigrants sneak into the United States illegally each year. Typically these people immigrate to the United States in hopes of finding employment to support their families. Once here, about 70% of them will obtain employment. The jobs that illegal immigrants occupy are the lower end jobs, which hurt unemployment rates especially for the lower class. Illegal Immigrants costs the United States about 113 billion each year. These costs are spread out over our education system, medical care, judicial system, and more. The information presented in this research paper will address the seriousness of this issue. Illegal immigration has a negative impact on the United States in many ways. Immigrants have entered our country illegally and stolen millions of jobs, crippled a struggling education system, manipulated welfare programs, and drastically raised crime rates. Without immigration reform, the crippling effects of illegal immigrants will break this country. With illegal immigrants willing to work for less pay and in poor work conditions, they negatively impact employment rates. Illegal-immigration has a negative impact on the available jobs for U.S. citizens. People often protest that the illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. However, that is not the case. They are able to work for low wages and in poor conditions, where citizens must follow minimum wage...
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...situation. Illegal immigrants cost the government billions of tax payer’s dollar each year, through the funding of law enforcement and programs. This paper will explain the changes that Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) implements through the use of programs and reforms to secure the country at federal, state and local level, along with if these programs are consistent with American constitutional framework. The United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under Department of Homeland Security. They “focuses on smart immigration enforcement, preventing terrorism and combating the illegal movement of people and trade” (ice.gov). ICE has two major sectors which are Homeland Security Investigators (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO). These two sectors are put into place to improve and monitor illegal activities that are taking place through immigration or activities that will affects the country’s wellbeing. ICE performs at a federal, state and national level. Section 287(g) authorizes Immigration and Custom Enforcement to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to “enforce federal immigration law during their regular, daily law enforcement activities” (Tidwell, 2014) The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement was enacted due to the terrorist act on America in September 2001. ICE is one of the components that was formed under the Department of Homeland Security Act 2002...
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...Immigration Reform: An Immigrant is a person who migrates to another country and is usually for permanent residency. But what is “reform”? According to dictionary.com “reform” means to change to a better state and improve by alteration. These two words make the Immigration reform. Though for senates, federal governments, and Obama it is known as a political discussion. This discussion is debated how the immigration system is not functioning correctly. How the border fence is not secured and the regulation for immigrants is not compatible. These common issues have been accumulating; creating an unbalance system for the immigrants. The Immigration System in America is broken. On March 5th, 2010, Joshua Hoyt, an executive director of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrants and Refugee Rights; wrote to the public stating how Obama is risking alienating latinos with the lack of immigration reform. In this literature introduces immigration reform and how the lack of support is declining(Hoyt, Joshua). In 2008 campaign, candidate Obama promised to make immigration reform a prime concern during the first year in office. This promise gave hope to the people and ambition. Giving Obama 67 percent of the Latinos vote. Which was much higher than John Kerry, 59 percent in 2004. But taking office Obama has pursued a policy of increasing deportation. The Obama Administration plan deport about 400,000 immigrants, which was far more...
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...The need for reform of the immigration system in the United States Introduction The lack of results from the Obama administration on the overall reform of the immigration system of the United States is due to the inability of the immigration system to regulate increasing legal admissions and growth of irregular immigration of a regional provenance. The political viability of the reform depends on the consent of the elected Republican opposition. This has contributes to organize structural blockage for reform for over fifteen years, evidencing the high degree of polarization of the immigration topic issue in American society. Given the circumstances, the likelihood of a reform in the next years is very uncertain. This paper aims to explain the lack of results from the Obama administration on the reform of the immigration system. It will analyze first, the main motivation for reform of the immigration system: it has become unable to properly regulate a rapidly growing immigration. It will then offer, a series of explanatory reasons for failure: the low priority given to the immigration issue, errors, but especially the structurally cleaving nature of the reform. Why is the reform of the immigration system a necessity? The Characteristics of the US Immigration System To understand the need for reform of the US immigration system, it is necessary to go back to first principles ensuring its operation. The United States regulates the admission of foreigners on their territory...
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...Nery Mejia Ms. Ybarra English 1301 24 April 2015 Immigration Reform in the United States: What would you do if you lived in a country with fewer opportunities and options for a better future, and you wanted to improve your life? Would you immigrate to developed countries like the United States, either legally or illegally? That is what many of our ancestors have done. We can look at the past and present history in the United States. As humans we immigrate to other places due to many reasons often searching for better pay, family, and to find opportunities to be successful. At this time, “about 11.7 million undocumented immigrants are living in the United States illegally, a population that has not varied much over the last three years but may recently be increasing again, according to new estimates published by the Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project.” Most of the undocumented people, have families and want to live permanently in the U.S. Some people say they should not be here and the U.S. government should send them back to their country because they came illegally (breaking our laws). However, others believe that the U.S. government should pass the new law proposed by President Obama legalizing all undocumented immigrants already here, with no criminal records, to give them a chance to live here as legal residents to have the opportunity to work legally. For the undocumented who have families to continue to live without fear of being deported...
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...Illegal Immigration Reform Proposal The United States has gone from being a nation of one race (Native Americans), to being a country of many nations. This country has increasingly become responsible for immigrants that have decided that the state of their own nation has become unbearable and have decided to make a change in their life from day to day as well as the life of their entire family. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated in 2010 that there were 11,900,000 illegal immigrants in the United States at the cost of approximately $83,665,408,222. The impact of illegal immigrants on the United States has become an issue that has stirred the emotions of all American citizens for many decades. With the population of illegal immigrants believed to be having a negative impact on the rising cost of healthcare, the contribution to a nationwide problem of unemployment, and citizens and immigrants’ alike calling for fairness to all, a complete immigration reform is something that needs to be addressed on a national level. President Barack Obama has a “commonsense immigration reform proposal.” His proposal consists of four parts that will hold accountable not just the illegal workers, but the employers who hire them as well. There are four parts to President Obama’s proposed reform: 1) continue to strengthen the borders to the United States; by doing so would strengthen our ability to remove criminals and apprehend and prosecute national security threats;...
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...Immigration reform essay: According to Pew Research Center, there are roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the u.s. as of 2015. This is so far one of the best estimates we have today on how many illegal immigrants reside in the u.s. When looking at illegal immigration patterns across other developed nations these numbers tend to be much lower (CITATION NEEDED). In the u.s we have seventy five percent of our illegal immigration coming from mexico while the other twenty five percent is from various latin and south american countries (citation needed). With the current amount of illegal immigrants residing in our country our political leaders must be able to make immigration reform possible. There are a few ways to do this. The Conservative...
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...U.S. Immigration Policies and Reform | Econ 2020 Term Paper | December 4, 2013 Fall,2013 Mr. Wilson U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICIES AND REFORM Immigration is both an economic necessity and a major problem financially for Economists today. Emigrants work in jobs that most Americans will not choose to partake in, yet most of the money they make gets sent back to their home country and therefore not going into the American economy. And many get paid off the books—lower wages, generally—that does not get taxed. Many Emigrant descendants become supported by American programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and housing services. In the end, Immigration, especially Illegal Immigration provides major cons that make the Local, State, and Federal Government provide legislation to curb Immigration which hurts those Emigrants that will help create businesses that do not send their companies abroad, provide International talent, innovation, and stabilization of economies. For Immigrants to obtain citizenship to the United States of America they must obtain a Green Card and maintain possession of it for five years, three if obtained through spouse or for Violence Against Women Act. Moreover, they must be eighteen, demonstrate continuous upstanding moral behavior...
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...On August 2nd, President Trump proposed an immigration reform bill. In this proposal, President Trump threw around the idea of slashing legal immigration to the United States in half within the next decade, by limiting the ability of American citizens and legal residents to bring their family members into the country. This bill would have a major effect on the country as a whole, and in my opinion, I think they would be mostly negative effects. I do not believe that congress should pass the bill proposed by President Trump. Ever since President Trump has been in office, he has wanted to make drastic changes to the immigration policies in the United States and this is just the latest proposal. Some of the things President Trump has already done when it comes to immigration reform include barring many visitors from select Muslim-majority countries, limited the influx of refugees, increased immigration arrests and pressed to build a wall along the southern border. (cite) These policies deal mainly with immigrants from threatening countries. I would not want my country to be the next victim of the Paris attack and this is why I personally do not have a problem with the legislation he has already passed. But this new bill on the other hand, I do not believe would be positive for our country....
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...Immigration Between Reforms and Reinforcement We need them out. No, you can’t say that. It is the same debit is going on for many years in the united states. Mexicans have the biggest share of these debates, obviously because Mexico is the country on the borders that suffers economically, politicly and in many other aspects that will make the united states the haven for Mexicans, even though if they will have to stay in the united states illegally. I tried to find my answers to the issue by looking into articles that talk with numbers and facts more than feelings, but it was not an easy job because most if these articles will try to predict the future, and they are suggesting soli-tons no one before tried yet, they were only successful...
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