The Public Opinion towards Immigration

Six sources related to in-migration policy in the linked States be annotated. These sources cover positions that both(prenominal) support and oppose freer immigration to the join States.

Abdel-Monem, T. (2003, Summer). Foreign nationals in the United States witness security program: A remedy for every wrong? American Criminal Law Review, 40(3), 1235-1269.

Abdel-Monem discusses the map of immigration status by federal law enforcement agencies as a tool to attain their own short-term objectives. He points out that granting preferred immigration status to persons who other would not qualify for such status undermines goals of immigration policy. The practice to which he prefers is granting preferential immigration status to foreign nationals in the United States who are willinging to act as witnesses in criminal trials against other foreign nationals.

Anderson, G. M. (2003, November 24). La Esperanza. America, 189(17), 19-22.

Anderson argues that increased immigration to the United States should be permitted. The account is that the nation and many major employers

in the United States actively countenance foreign workers to enter the United States illegally to provide a pool of lower cost labor. Then, when family members join these illegal immigrant workers, they are harassed by police agencies and immigration authorities. Eventually, they are deported.

The argument of Anderson is that, if lower-cost workers are encouraged to become illegal immigrants, the families of these workers should be allowed to meet the workers to the United States.

Krikorian, M. (2004, January 26). Amnesty again: This country should have knowing apparently, it has not. National Review, 56(1), 4-10.

Krikorian, writing in the right-wing National Review, clearly states the conservative position against immigration to the United States generally and resistivity to amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States specifically. Krikorian, belatedly for upper economic strata conservatives, also recognizes that low-cost workers who displace American workers will eventually reduce the American economy to a two-tiered, one-third World type of economy.

Simes, D. K. (2003, November-December). America's imperial dilemma. Foreign Affai
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