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    The debates over immigration and immigration policy did not develop in recent memory. In fact, one could argue that the debates over this issue date back to antiquity. During Biblical times people did not agree with each other regarding immigration. Even the authors of the Scriptures had different opinions about immigration. Matthew and Paul are two New Testament authors who each discuss the topic of immigration in their writings. Matthew did so in the second chapter of his Gospel, and Paul, in the

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    What is immigration? Immigration is when a person from one country moves to another country with the plan of staying permanently. There are many reasons why someone may want to immigrate to another country such as the United States of America. According to the text around 214.2 million people immigrated in 2010 alone. The positive pulls may be for job opportunities, higher wages, educational opportunities, health care, family and friends (Guest, 2014). The negative pushes for a person to immigrate

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    Immigration Introduction Immigration in its simplest term can be conveniently referred to as the international movement of people into a destination country of which they do not have citizenship in order to settle of reside there especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as students. No nation on earth can boast of singlehandedly archiving all that it has without the help of immigrants. The case f America isn’t different

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    certain group of people by associating their entire race with terrorism and danger, creating many negative stereotypes. More importantly, these perceptions have amplified into major concern about immigrants and immigration. Evidently, this concern is responsible for the increase in immigration laws, which criminalize and prevent the mobility of migrants; and the increase in border control/policing services. Frequently, if not all of the time, migrants leave their original countries to flee from

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    Public opinions of the citizenry make up these countries that have exclusive immigration policies and it is important to observe how these opinions influence politics. Also, anti-immigrant sentiments and populist public opinions create internal borders for immigrants making it crucial to understand the basis for immigrants exclusion in Europe. The first two theories are based off the idea of perceived threat of the immigrant population. These two theories are not objective, but mainly based on the

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    in society and do not increase the danger to national security or public safety. Research According to the studies on over 200 Metropolitan areas, immigrants committed less crimes on average compared to natural born citizens. One of the largest immigration populated city have one of the lowest average crime rates. This shows that allowing immigrants in the country does not increase the danger to national security or public safety. Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and Graham Ousey,

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    “What I am doing is good for the United State, it’s also going to be good for Mexico” said president Donald Trump during an interview with ABC News corresponding to the wall that he wants to build between United State and Mexico to keep illegal immigrants, weapons and drug cross the borders without been detected. Consequently, decrease the percentage of drugs, weapons, and people that cross the borders, improve the economic and safeness of the country. This event is not the first time that comes

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    term immigration is an international movement of people into a destination country of which they are natives or where they do not process citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. However, as many as over million and millions of people in the world have migrated to other countries as a result of war, poverty or just the dream of a better life. Obviously, the number of immigrants has increased, so has controversy about immigration policies

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    Immigration policy has played an important role on the federal level; however, it has gained momentum in terms of the direct involvement from state and local governments. Over time, state and local governments have become increasingly involved in creating and enforcing immigration policy in response to the federal government’s inability to address this specific issue. The consequences of these policies have generated controversy regarding the ethical, economic, and legal implications of these aggressive

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    What is Immigration? So the topic i picked for my final will be Immigration. In my word, immigration is the act to move on. When people move from one country to another it’s called immigration. If you think about it, we are like birds. Birds or animals move home from home in the winter to keep warm. Animals migrates so they can keep warm. Many immigrants plan to live in the new country for a long period of time. They want to become citizens of the new country. The number of people who immigrate

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