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Immigration And The United States

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Immigration is a highly controversial and big problem in the United States today. “While some characterize our immigration crisis as solely an issue of the 11 to 12 million unauthorized immigrants living in this country, our problems extend beyond the number of undocumented people to a broader range of issues. The lack of a comprehensive federal solution has created a slew of lopsided, enforcement-only initiatives that have cost the country billions of dollars while failing to end unauthorized immigration.” The bigger issue with immigration is that we do not have a system in place to stop it on all the levels federal, state, and local the only system we have is when we find them we deport them which ends up costing billions of dollars. How the immigration system works that allows some immigrants into the country is they have a four main ways of immigrating to the United States, family based immigration, employment based immigration, humanitarian based immigration, and other ways. “Family unification is an important principle governing immigration policy. The family-based immigration category allows U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs) to bring certain family members to the United States. There are 480,000 family-based visas available every year. Family-based immigrants are admitted to the U.S. either asimmediate relatives of U.S. citizens or through the family preference system.” There are only a limited number each year of the family visas so there are

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