Immigration: The Issues Remain

Immigrants composed a disproportionate portion of the public and private assistance rolls, especially during economic downturns.  Although immigrants themselves were probably less of a real problem to local political authorities than the antagonism directed against them, however the perception that they were a problem has led local and state officials to pressure their representatives in Congress to do more to address the problem. (Fitzgerald, 1996, p 109) 

Clearly politicians and the elites of local communities feel immigrants too much of burden on local services, unless of course they are needed for political support. Again, the more dissimilar newcomers and resistant to domestic appearance, language and culture the more people associated them with social problems.

Selective immigration is largely a seductive fallacy, and that after all selection can never touch our main problem, which is restriction. The argument is frankly based on a belief in the nation as a unit, on the belief that the evils of nationality are not inherent in it; that the loyalty, the literature, the law, the institutions, developed by the compact nation can as yet in our world be produced through no other agency; that moreover the coherent nation must be the unit for all presently conceivable relations between the various peoples of the world.

In support of the position, anyone can track the historical perspectives of the United States’ immigration policy, examine the economic argument, and review the relevance of legal, illegal, and humanitarian immigration. The impact of the past on present events cannot be ruled out. American: history recounts the nature of the United States’ immigration policy from the inception of this nation building state.