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Immigration Systems: What's the point?
Ineffective immigration regulations for migrant deportation on criminal charges places significant burden on the United States, in addition to threatening public safety.
Congress enacted the most comprehensive amendments ever to its immigration law in the year 1996, concentrating particularly on deportation of non-citizens convicted of crime. In the half-century prior to this historic decision to enact major amendments, it had already effected incremental alterations to the nation's immigration law (HRW).
America has, for long, been controlling which groups of non-citizens are allowed entry into, and permission to reside in, the nation, as well as their reasons for, and duration of, stay. Initial laws chiefly governed the matter of 'entry' into America, and did not focus much on the issue of deportation. For instance, a general 1875 migration regulation barred entry to alien convicts and prostitutes, while an Immigration Act passed in 1882 prevented idiots, madmen, convicts (save for political convicts), and potential public charges from entering the nation. Another law, passed in 1891, did not grant polygamists and prospective migrants with serious contagious diseases entry, whilst yet another law, enacted in the year 1917, required a certain level of literacy for admittance into America (HRW).
But the concept of deportation...
Its history dates back to 1798, when the freshly-instituted American Congress passed its Alien Friends and Alien Enemies Acts that authorized the President of the United States to banish non-citizens he considered dangerous. Other amendments, passed in the year 1882, forbade Chinese laborers from entering or staying in the country. The 1952 McCarran-Walter immigration act laid the foundation for the current American immigration regulation, formulating deportation procedures, detailing exclusions for political reasons, and devising a quota-based admissions system (quotas were fixed on the basis on nationality). Other key amendments to the U.S. migration regulations have taken place (beginning from the latest) in 1996, 1990, 1988, 1986, 1980, and 1965 (HRW).
Summary of Current Article
As per recent DHS (Department of Homeland Security) statistics, innumerable immigrants convicted of crime (including attempted murder and assault) have been freed from detention as their home countries did not agree to have them back. This inability to extradite dangerous criminals has provoked outrage among policymakers and individuals advocating for more stringent immigration regulations. These parties claim the Obama government could be working harder to pressurize unhelpful nations. However, the department is faced with numerous barriers. The law does not permit…
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Koehler, Julia. Yes, there are criminals in mix, but fear of deportation is more widespread threat. 12 June 2016. <https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2016/06/11/yes-there-are-criminals-mix-but-fear-deportation-more-widespread-threat/w5ibjfsmaVwjNJbSCNVoyM/story.html>.
Nixon, Ron. Nations Hinder U.S. Effort to Deport Immigrants Convicted of Crime. 01 July 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/homeland-security-immigrants-criminal-conviction.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FImmigration%20and%20Emigration>.
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