...Effect Of the US Immigration Bill 2013 On the American And Indian Economy Executive Summary Eight U.S. senators from the Republican and Democratic parties have submitted a new bill,i.e., the US Immigration Bill 2013, to overhaul the immigration system, with a focus on immigrant work skills and improved border security. The proposed legislation is 844 pages long. Under the new proposal, the cap on H-1B visas would nearly double from 65,000 to 110,000, and could rise to 180,000 if certain conditions are met. Spouses of people holding H-1B visas would be given the right to work and they would not count against the cap on H 1-B visas, if in turn, their country of origin allows the spouses of U.S. nationals working in that country to hold employment. The Americans feel the top H-1B and L-1 employers are using the programme to substitute tens of thousands of high-wage, high skilled American jobs and give them to non-Americans. The bill proposes that a company that employs 50 or more employees in the United States may not hire additional H-1B or L-visa employees if the number of such employees exceeds: (1) 75% of the total number of employees for FY2015, (2) 65% of the total number of employees for FY2016, and (3) 50% of the total number of employees for each subsequent fiscal year. These provisions are seen as directly targeting Indian information technology companies. While the U.S. operations of these companies form a large percentage of their revenue, the majority...
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...The US Immigration Law of Arizona - A In the United States of America, you can experience a lot of immigration, just like you do here in Denmark. But it is very different compared from us in Denmark to the United States. Is it very strict to cross the border and come over to America. And why is it so? Is it because the government and the borders don’t tolerate that everyone just come in to the land and do what ever they want. And actually I think that is absolutely fair, because you can’t just wander around and do what you like, that is now how the system works. The border patrol in Arizona has got some new laws, for themselves actually, which makes the capable of asking pedestrians who might seem strange. If the border patrol thinks that there is something fishy about the person they spot, they are allowed to ask for ID to see if the person actually lives in the US, and are not from Mexico, Guatemala etc. When I’m talking about immigration from Mexico and Guatemala, I’m talking about Illegal Immigration. Illegal immigration to the United States, also referred to in the media as undocumented immigration, is the act by foreign nationals of entering the United States without government permission. And now we come the biggest question: Why are their so many immigrants heading over to the United States? There are actually many reasons and explanations to this and I will comment on some of them. Overpopulation is just one of them. The reason behind this is because that...
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...Immigration in the United States Today people are wondering why the government is allowing immigrants to come to the United States when there are not enough jobs for the citizens currently here. Even though immigration can take jobs away from potential citizens, immigration can bring needed talent to the United States and can better a person’s life. Currently with immigration there is a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment, and lack of major immigration reform. Some immigrants are asylum seekers, while others are looking for a better life. There are benefits to immigration such as population growth and diversity. People here in America are having trouble finding jobs and are looking towards immigration as the primary reason why. They are wanting the politicians that were elected to choose a side; for immigration or against immigration. This question is part of a huge debate currently raging all across America. People all across America want the United States government to shut down the borders and to deport all of the current illegal immigrants here. As of March 2010, illegal immigrants account for about 11.2 million people currently in the United States (Passel, 2011). Anti-immigration attitudes generally come out when it is harder to find jobs and less when jobs are readily available. Anti-immigrant campaigns blame immigrants for the current job losses and declining wages, as well as higher crime rates and public health crisis (Barry, 2005). A lot of the backlash has to do with...
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...Immigration in the United States Calculated circa 2005, over 3% of the human population is comprised of immigrants, a term used to describe those who move to a different country for permanent residency. (Wilcox 1) For purposes varying from severe needs to wanderlust, migration levels rise each year all across the globe. Throughout the past century, the notion of immigration has been negatively perceived and become a controversial matter in the eyes of the United States law enforcement. Our country’s oppression against immigration has come to the exceedingly unethical extent where political figures like Presidential Candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo erroneously claim that “our ‘War at Home’ against illegal immigrants is more deadly than the war with Iraq”. (Sampson 2) Such prevalent negative outlooks and claims on immigration have guided a majority of our population to have inaccurate preconceptions of those who migrate into our country, wrongfully influencing our population to correlate immigration levels with higher rates of violence and crime. In this paper, I, with help from writings by authors Shelley Wilcox and Robert J. Sampson, will help disprove the stereotypes our nation puts upon immigrants, and propose ethical methods for our country’s approach on immigration laws. Firstly, the accusation that immigrants are more often affiliated in acts of crime and violence as compared to non-immigrants must be disproved. In fact, recent studies have proved this stereotype to be overwhelmingly...
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...Immigration Issues in the US America is a nation of “rights.” In the past 50 years, the United States has had to contend with virtually every rights movement imaginable: civil rights, students’ rights, abortion rights, disabilities rights, gun ownership rights, women’s rights, homosexual rights, victims’ rights, and now immigrant’s rights (Bean, 1990). One of the most controversial political issues today is illegal immigrants from Mexico entering our country (Hannity, 2007). Illegal immigration into the United States is a problem that should be a concern, as it is unfair to both Americans and to the people of this country who legally immigrated (Light, 1993). Immigration in the United States is growing out of control. Each year more and more illegally immigrants filter into our country. Scientific research has proven that we cannot continue to take in all these illegal immigrants (Bean, 1990). The question is whether we should learn to accept illegal immigrants and grant them their wish, or send them back to their home and try to stop illegal immigration once and for all. During the 1980’s, the Unites States received about 8 million immigrants, approximately 800,000 per year (Wilson, 1990). That included both legal admissions and illegal entrants who later received amnesty and legal residence. The volume has increased in the 1990’s, with about 900,000 immigrants arriving each year (Light, 1993). Over the past 30 years, the source countries of these immigrants...
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...In the year of 1933 a woman by the name of Jean Xiu was born. This woman just happens to be my grandmother. My grandma led a privileged growing up in China because she was a part of one of the wealthiest families in China. Her father was the man who had authority over all the oil, rice, and salt in China. She grew up on a large estate with acres of land for her to explore. She would spend hours running around exploring the land. Life was good for her until 1949 when Mao took over and the communist revolution started. When the communists started to take over my great grandfather was a top priority because of his wealth and his family’s connection to the late Qing Dyanasty. At first the communists tried to occupy his house and use it as their base in Nanking, but my great grandfather was proud and would not let them enter. Then one day in 1950 the communists stormed the house and killed everyone in my grandmothers’ family except her and her sister. They burned the house down along with everything my grandmother ever knew inside it. After the burning of their house with no place to go they sought refuge with their one surviving uncle. My grandmother was forced to cut her hair so she could be passed off as boy. She also had to use her mother’s maiden name to be able to escape prosecution. My grandmother’s uncle was a doctor and convinced the communist army that my grandma and her sister were his two sons. He told the army that he was a doctor but the communists said that they needed...
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...operating along the Southwest border, of their infrastructure and profits. Improve partnerships with border communities and law enforcement. - Expands our ability to work with our cross-border law enforcement partners. Community trust and cooperation are key to effective law enforcement. To this end, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will establish border community liaisons along the Southern and Northern borders to improve communication and collaboration with border communities, boost funding to tribal government partners to reduce illegal activity on tribal lands, and strengthen training on civil rights and civil liberties for DHS immigration officers. Crack down on criminal networks engaging in passport and visa fraud and human smuggling. - Creates tough criminal penalties for trafficking in passports and immigration documents and schemes to defraud, including those who prey on vulnerable immigrants through notario fraud. It also strengthens penalties to combat human smuggling rings. Progress Strengthening Border Security Doubling boots on the ground. - Today,...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Asian Immigration to the United States Most American immigrants are thought to be people who are escaping civil war or poverty and are generally perceived to be with little or no education. While there are some Asians who they indeed fit this image, it is worth noting that there exists another group of Asian immigrants who are well educated and they have skilled or professional occupational backgrounds. This essay majorly looks into the American connection which led to mass immigration from Asia after World War II. It is worth noting that prior to the 1940s, the only Asian region where America had dominance was the Philippines, which was an American colony since 1898 (Cheng and Liu 74). The advent of the Second World War changed this economic and configuration as the U.S interests seeped into regions where previously they exercised little influence. Progressively, wartime involvement affected the political and economic alignments which occurred after the post-war period. When the war ended, the Soviet Union and America became interlocked in a political supremacy war. This turf led to a chain of wars which involved the two countries, but the wars were fought in regions that belonged to neither, mostly in the Southeast Asia like Vietnam. The economic and political elites, alongside the ordinary people who were fleeing from the war created a notable group of Asian immigrants to America. Due to its dominating role in the area, the United States became...
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...“Trump and U.S. Immigration Policy,” by Philip Martin discusses past immigration policies and what is to come with President Trump’s stance on immigration. While over the years there has been several different proposed bills on how to deal with unauthorized immigration, not many have actually been passed and became a law. Unauthorized foreigners make up a significant portion of the U.S workforce; twenty-six percent in farmers, fifteen percent in construction and nine percent in production and services. To help bring the numbers down, Trump plans to deport two million unauthorized immigrants. To do so he will have to decide on policy that will help enforce it in a legal matter. The two major policies include enforcement-only and comprehensive...
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...People immigrated to the US in some cases to escape persecution, whether it is racial, social, religious or political persecution in their home countries. The Irish for example were persecuted as Catholics and suffered racial prejudice from the English who were Protestant. In contrast people chose to come to America for the American Dream, a promise of liberty and freedom from persecution. They would have the ability to own land and make a living without interference. Furthermore there is a larger availability of jobs which led to the US economy having a rapid surge in economic growth due to the significant increase in the workforce. This growth was assisted by the developments in transport, such as steam ships which made passage to the US...
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...The driving forces behind U.S.-Mexico migration from 1900 to 1945 was the necessity of cheap and ‘unskilled’ labor, circular migration, importation-deportation and institutional involvement. What we see in the early 1900s is that the Mexican immigrant population was exploited as a source of flexible, low-cost labor that could be imported and deported freely. This meant that when the U.S. required more sources of cheap labor, they would import Mexican workers and deport them when the labor was no longer needed. This led to this form of circular migration where Mexican immigrants were brought over during WW I when we needed labor and then deported during the Great Depression followed by importation during WW II when the U.S. required more workers due to another labor shortage. This led to institutional involvement from the U.S. Department of State, Labor, and Justice, which formed the Braceros Program. This allowed for the temporary importation of contract laborers from Mexico to the U.S. I believe that of all these forces, the importation and deportation of cheap and ‘unskilled’ labor played the biggest role in creating and shaping Mexican migration to the United States. What we see with this trend of importing and deporting Mexicans is that the U.S. brings in and removes Mexican immigrants when they are no longer beneficial. This seems to be the primary theme in which Mexican migration was built upon. Mexicans were viewed as cheap and unskilled labor brought in to work in the...
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...Joseph Grieco Frye Seminar 3rd 7 January 2017 US Policies On Illegal Immigration and Its History Since the 19th century, there has been a constant flow of federal policies that have made attempts to regulate immigration in the US. These policies started when New York began to register and tax immigrants in 1824 (Welch). Since then, policies regarding illegal immigration have changed, and an increased overall number of immigrants coming to the US caused policies to become more oppressive. There has also been struggles including policies that affect children and how to properly help undocumented children while considering what is morally best for the child. Due to issues with the policies regarding illegal immigration, there is controversy...
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...Steven Klein 16 November 2015 Mr. Nealy ENG102 U.S. Immigration Throughout the history of the United States immigration has become apart of our country’s fabric which, began centuries ago. Only to become a hot topic in the US in recent years with its primary focus being illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration is when people enter a country without government permission. As of 2008 the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the US which is down from 2007‘s 12.5 million people. Although the Center for Immigration Studies estimates are very different from other estimates that range from 7 to 20 million. While the Pew Hispanic Center estimated in March of 2009 there are 11.1 million illegal immigrants and that number is from March 2007’s peak of 12 million. The exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown because they are illegal immigrants. A 2005 report from the Pew Hispanic Center stated that 22% of illegal immigrants were from Latin American Countries, mostly from Central America, 13% from Asia, 56% from Mexico, with 6% between Europe and Canada, and 3% were from the rest of the world and Africa. In the United States alone every day there are almost 70,000 foreigners to migrate here. Within those 70,000 over 60,000 of them are businessmen, travelers and students; there are about 5,000 that are illegal immigrants; with 2,000 legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have been and has continued to outnumber the number of legal...
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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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...their own cultures, and can even speak a variety of languages. It is important to remember that these people are human beings like any other group of people and they have their own unique lives and stories. These stories are rather important as they tell us the harsh reality of immigration through personal narratives, and many Hispanic immigrants like sharing their stories to inform others and give themselves a voice. Personal narratives tell us that Hispanic immigration to the United States needs to be reformed promptly. These narratives tell us that immigration will never end despite the current US government’s...
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