“PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES”
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*’immigration’ to the ‘united states'” is a complex ‘demographic phenomenon’ that has been a major source of ‘population growth’ + ‘cultural change’ throughout much of the ‘history of the ‘united states’*
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(the ‘economic’, ‘social’, and ‘political’ aspects of ‘immigration’ have caused controversy regarding ‘ethnicity’, ‘economic benefits’, jobs for ‘non-immigrants’, ‘settlement patterns’, ‘impact on ‘upward social mobility”, ‘crime’, and ‘voting behavior’)
(in ‘2005’, the ‘united states’ per capita ranked ’34th’ out of 179 ‘world nations’ in the “# of immigrants allowed into the ‘country'”)
(…”and for ‘good reason’?”)
(“good for who?”)
(prior to ‘1965’, policies such as the ‘national origins formula’ limited ‘immigration’ and ‘naturalization’ opportunities for people from areas outside ‘western europe’)
(‘exclusion laws’ enacted as early as the 1880s generally ‘prohibited’ or ‘severely restricted’ immigration from ‘asia’, and ‘quota laws’ enacted in the 1920s curtailed “eastern european immigration”)
(the ‘civil rights movement’ of the ‘1960s’ led to the replacement of these ‘ethnic quotas’ with ‘per-country limits’)
(since then, the #r of ‘first-generation immigrants’ living in the ‘united states’ has quadrupled, from ‘9.6 million’ in ‘1970’ to about ’38 million’ in ‘2007’)
(nearly 14 million ‘immigrants’ entered the ‘united states’ from ‘2000’ to ‘2010’, and over 1 million persons were ‘naturalized’ as U.S. citizens in ‘2008’)
(the ‘per-country limit’ applies the same ‘maximum’ on the # of ‘visas’ to all countries regardless of their ‘population’ and has therefore had the effect of significantly restricting ‘immigration’ of persons born in ‘populous nations’ such as ‘mexico’, ‘china’, ‘india’, and ‘the philippines’ – the leading ‘countries of origin’ for ‘legally admitted immigrants’ to the ‘united states’ in ‘2013’; nevertheless, ‘china’, ‘india’, and ‘mexico’ were the leading ‘countries of origin’ for ‘immigrants’ overall to the ‘united states’ in ‘2013’, regardless of ‘legal status’, according to a “USA census bureau” study)
(as of ‘2009’, 66% of ‘legal immigrants’ were admitted on the basis of ‘family ties’, along with 13% admitted for their ’employment skills’ and 17% for ‘humanitarian reasons’)
(for those who enter the ‘USA’ illegally across the ‘mexico’–’united states’ border and elsewhere, migration is ‘difficult’, ‘expensive’, and ‘dangerous’)
(virtually all ‘undocumented immigrants’ have no avenues for ‘legal entry’ to the ‘united states’ due to the restrictive ‘legal limits’ on ‘green cards’, and lack of ‘immigrant visas’ for ‘low-skilled workers’)
(participants in debates on ‘immigration’ in the ‘early 21st century’ called for ‘increasing enforcement of existing laws’ governing ‘illegal immigration’ to the ‘united states’, building a ‘barrier’ along some or all of the ‘2,000-mile’ (aka ‘3,200 km’) “‘mexico’-‘USA’ border”, or creating a new ‘guest worker program’)
(through much of ‘2006’ the ‘country’ and ‘congress’ was immersed in a debate about these ‘proposals’)
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(as of ‘april 2010’, few of these ‘proposals’ had become ‘law’, though a ‘partial border fence’ had been ‘approved’ + subsequently ‘cancelled’)
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👈👈👈☜*“AMERICAN BORDERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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