Immigration Reform Research Paper

Immigration Reform
The United States has emerged as an economic superpower in recent decades marked by a heightened openness, which began with increasing trade and migration. Immigration helped pave the way for the superpower status of the US and continued to play a key role in securing the country’s economic future. Immigrants accounted for over half of the labor force growth in the US during the past decade, and by 2008 census, the foreign born comprised over 16 percent of the labor force of the US. While high-skilled immigrants boost innovation and generate businesses, low-skilled businesses are central for keeping the prices of labor-intensive goods and other jobs, such as construction, landscaping and childcare low. Both high and low-skilled …show more content…
Some of the major benefits of the immigration reform are prioritizing employment-based migration, encouraging short-term migration, ending illegal migration, limiting adverse fiscal impacts and establishing flexible caps that enhance economic growth of the US. As a measure of halting the future immigrant flows, it is necessary for the US government to redesign the existing immigrant policy. A comprehensive immigration reform not only aims at generating flexibility and creativity in the immigration policy of the US, but also increases the government’s credibility in enforcing new laws. One of the major steps in immigration reforms is to base the immigration primarily on employment rather than family relationships, and particularly auctioning permits to those who wish to employ high and low-skilled …show more content…
Various political parties attracted to the debate of immigration respond emotionally when they sense risks caused to healthcare, jobs, national security and education. Under such consequences, the Congress has been unable to address comprehensive immigration reforms. The current immigration reform discussions focus on four major perspectives. These include hardening the borders, implementing technology to automate inspection activities, creating exceptions to groups of privileged passengers and comprehensive transformation of border management principles. The guest-worker issue is another problem that proves to be a challenge to immigration reform. While the US government allows temporary immigrants into the US for a specified period of time, a majority of employers have been lobbying with the Congress to increase the number of guest-worker visas as such immigrants work for low wages and generate a higher

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