The Importance Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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America was originally known as the “Land of Opportunity”, in which billions of people from other countries flocked to in search of many things; new work occupations, support for their families, a new way of life, and/or escape from their former lives. Even today, people continue to pass through the borders into our country in search of these many things: hoping, desiring, and willing. These immigrants are expected to adhere to America’s laws and ways of life. They are expected to learn English, to get a proper job, to be able to afford to put their names through processing for consideration of U.S. citizenship, which could take years. However, there are approximately eleven million illegal immigrants residing in America without the proper …show more content…
They had three main things in common: their aim was to build stronger control of the United States/Mexico border, create better enforcement of workplace hiring, and most important of all, offer a means for eleven billion of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to achieve legal status, citizenship, and permanent residency as well. While the offer of the comprehensive immigration reform bill gained many opponents, “…Americans tend to see legalization as a giveaway and resist referring to this group as ‘undocumented immigrants’; instead, they should always be referred to as illegal”, according to focus group studies and polling directed by these in the Democratic Party (Skrenty & Gell-Redman), it also gained supporters as well. A website covering the basics of immigration reform, titled “A Step Closer to Comprehensive Immigration Reform”, revealed that the immigration reform bill would mean that people with registered provisional immigrant, or RPI for short, would be able to work in the U.S., travel abroad, and be able to live without fear of getting deported. In this, families that had been separated by deportation would be reunited, and as a result, Border Patrol agents would be mandated to receive training in issues relating to family unity and children’s rights, and there would also be expanded guest worker programs including protections for abused and wrongfully terminated immigrant