The United States of America is a country of immigrants. People from almost every part of the world and nationality inhabit the American territories at the present moment. The nation would not exist without individuals who decided to take their families and started to live new lives in the USA back in the eighteenth century. Nowadays, there are many laws aimed at regulating the immigrant movements in the Commonwealth that have increased rapidly due to various career opportunities and high living standards. The following paper is intended to discuss the legal topic of immigration in the USA, appropriate changes in the law, and other aspects of the given issue.
Description of the Legal Topic
As it is mentioned above, there are many nationalities living in the territory of the United States of America. As individuals of developing countries seek decent job offers, they are always tempted to move to the most attractive and financially independent country in the world. Therefore, the American government was obliged to set particular laws that were supposed to regulate the number of people who crossed the national border (Anderson 39). Also, the rights of tourists or immigrants are legally limited to prevent various misunderstandings and situations that might cause harm to local inhabitants.
The law described above is necessary as it helps to eliminate particular demographical issues (such as overpopulation or the lack of the country’s inhabitants). The majority of individuals who stay in the USA territory illegally are the citizens of Mexico, Colombia, Puerto-Rico, and other developing states that are situated close to the American borders. According to the law, every immigrant or tourist is obliged to have an appropriate document to pass one of the multiple control-posts (Weissbrodt et al. 102). Unfortunately, many travelers violate the governmental regulations and circumvent the law related to immigration or tourism. It would be proper to state that a significant part of foreigners come to the USA to give births to their children here, which makes them local citizens officially. As a result, parents do not return to their motherlands.
USA Immigration Law Historical Analysis
As it is mentioned above, people from Europe were invited to inhabit American territories in the eighteenth century. In several decades, the representatives of Asian nationalities started to populate the United States of America due to the lack of well-paid jobs in their motherlands (Fine and Lyon 445). The immigration waves were influenced by the US government, and all people had to undergo medical examinations at the Ellis Island in New York to pass the border control. As the number of people in these territories was enough to maintain a strong economy and nation in general, local politicians closed the borders and established new laws that required every visitor to have specific documents that described one’s traveling purpose.
In 2016, President Donald Trump said that he wanted to reduce the number of the country’s illegal residents by mass deportation. Also, he aims at establishing new rules for people who want to receive American visas (Hirota 1098). This political strategy is caused by multiple individuals who do not pay taxes and work in the USA, which has an adverse impact on the Commonwealth’s economy. It would be proper to mention that Trump wanted to build a concrete wall in the territory where the USA and Mexico merge to make it impossible for people to cross the border illegally.
Cases Integral to USA Immigration Laws
The first case is the cancellation of the birthright citizenship. As it is mentioned above, President Donald Trump wants to deprive immigrants of the right to give their children born in the US territory citizenships and appropriate documents (Kerwin 554). This law is one of the main reasons for drug industry prosperity in the southern part of the country as many individuals have a right to stay in the USA if they have relatives here.
Another case presents the changes to legal immigration that implies reducing the number of illegal USA residents. President Trump initiated the campaign of halving the number of issued green cards (Kerwin 556). Also, the politician claimed that his goal is to deport approximately twenty-five hundred thousand people (without legal rights to stay here) from the country.
The last case is Kate’s law that Donald Trump promised to discuss and ask Congress to pass it. This law will give police officers a legal right to arrest and jail foreign criminals when they remain in the US territory (Jaggers et al. 9). The given regulation is named after a victim that was shot by an illegal immigrant who was deported from the state several times before.
Conclusion
The law of immigration in the United States of America has changed several times due to various decisions made by the country’s government as to the regulation of its population’s number. As there are many illegal immigrants to American territories, politicians are obliged to impose a particular restriction on people who violate appropriate laws. President Donald Trump wants to reduce the number of unregistered foreigners by fifty percent within the next ten years.
Works Cited
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