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Illegal Immigration Policy Analysis

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Immigration is what most economies are built up on. However, currenting the systems that deal with immigration policies in most places are a mess. In recent years, illegal immigration has increasingly become more of a problem, especially in Europe and America. This is because most immigration processes are too extensive, incoherent immigration policy causes people many years of waiting before they can gain legal citizenship into the country in which they desire to live.

Each year millions of immigrants come into America. Of those millions only about 400,000 are legal. Throughout the years immigration has been a constant source of economic activity as well as demographic diversity. Immigrants even if not legal pay taxes, own businesses employee …show more content…

Since spring of 2015, more than one million people have immigrated into Europe causing an immigration crisis.The conflicts in Syria Afghanistan, and Iraq, being the main reason immigrants are fleeing into the European countries. The majority of the immigrants have been arriving in Germany, Greece, Italy and Hungary because they are easily accessible. This influx of immigration into Europe has caused overpopulation.Tensions in the European Union have been rising because of this, in September, the ministers of the European Union voted to relocate 160,000 immigrants that had come into Italy and Greece More than 386,000 immigrants came into Hungary last year, Hungary reacted by closing its border to all. Hungary also relocated 54,000 immigrants to deal with the influx of people. Each country has dealt with the immigration crisis in their own way, as people continue to cross the borders into European countries the lawmakers there pass laws limiting their access. (Ehrenfreund,n,pg.) (BBC News,n, …show more content…

They have “specialized” police forces, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose jobs are devoted to prosecuting and deporting over a quarter of the nation’s immigrants. As well as lack of labor laws to help immigrants be protected against wage theft. Despite these hostile policies in America, immigrants still continue to integrate themselves more successfully into the American economy than foreigners that arrive in countries of the European Union. A report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine showed that more immigrants buy into the American dream than native born Americans do. It also stated that children of the lower educated immigrants become much more educated than their parents, and in turn find better jobs which helps the American economy. (BBC News, n,

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