Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.On one hand, USA is a country of immigrants and enriched our culture in many ways. Immigrants are important source of job talent for many industries.
On the other hand, Negative positions center on terrorist attack threats, employment harms, economic/political and implications.
According to the Pew Research Center, 70% of voters listed immigration as “very important” to their decision in the 2016 election. This resolution is now a hot item for the
DREAM Act debate, where 2 conflicting views are clashing.
President Trump has proposed significant restrictions on immigration that will both limit the inflow (by estimate 20 million plus over next 50 years) and will limit benefits of immigrants here.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/09/trump-administration-may-target-immigrants-who-use-food-aid-other-benefits.htmlThere is a lot of support in the news for affirmative position:The Hill-Feb 14, 2018
With a budget bill passed, Congress is back to debating the fate of nearly 3 million Dreamers, or unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the country as children. There is widespread public support for Dreamers and a bi-partisan fix is attainable through the DREAM Act, a bill that would offer Dreamers a ...
Fortune-12 hours ago
A recent CMS profile of the DREAM Act-eligible found a long-term, highly productive population, with deep ties to the United States. More than 2.2 million U.S. residents would qualify for conditional residence under this act. Dreamers live in large numbers (5,000 or more) in 41 states. On average, they have ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune-15 hours ago
A Catholic church in Barrio Logan is mailing valentines to President Donald Trump to ask him to support a “clean DREAM Act.” Marta Flores, a parishioner at Our Lady of Guadalupe, said the idea came to her through prayer. Her faith journey, she said, taught her that showing love to people who have ...
MPNnow.com-Feb 15, 2018
Letter: Assembly's Dream Act encourages illegal immigration .... The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or Dream Act, is a federal legislative proposal that would grant conditional residency and eventual permanent residency to those who were brought to this country illegally by their ...
The Guardian-16 hours ago
Overall, the plan would reduce legal immigration to the US by 35%, or more than 350,000 people per year mostly from Latin America, Asia and Africa. ... logical to support immigration restrictions if you believe that the United States is fundamentally an Anglo-European culture with western civilizational roots.
Negative Position:The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United States
June 17, 2009
The environmental argument for reducing immigration to the United States is relatively straightforward and is based on the following five premises:
- Immigration levels are at a historic high and immigration is now the main driver of U.S. population growth.
- Population growth contributes significantly to a host of environmental problems within our borders.
- A growing population increases America’s large environmental footprint beyond our borders and our disproportionate role in stressing global environmental systems.
- In order to seriously address environmental problems at home and become good global environmental citizens, we must stop U.S. population growth.
- We are morally obligated to address our environmental problems and become good global environmental citizens.
DACA Deal: GOP should join Trump in demanding real immigration reform in exchange for any amnesty
By Jeremy Carl Feb 16 2018
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/15/daca-deal-gop-should-join-trump-in-demanding-real-immigration-reform-in-exchange-for-any-amnesty.html"Perhaps it is because people are misinformed, buying the public rhetoric about DACA recipients and ignoring the actual data. Nowhere has the divergence between rhetoric and reality been more apparent than the discussion of the benefits that DACA recipients will bring to the U.S. economy.
Many DACA recipients
cannot even speak English fluently. the Center for Immigration Studies has estimated that
70 percent have only “basic” or less English fluency.
Almost three-quarters of DACA recipients
live in low-income households.
Less than 900 serve in our military. Twenty percent are high school dropouts.
DACA-eligible workers were more likely to hold lower skilled jobs than US workers overall.
Based on their demographic profile, more than 95 percent of DACA recipients will be eligible for affirmative action covering everything from preferential college admissions and job placement to advantaged treatment for government programs targeted at “underrepresented minorities.”
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States is
a timely resolution to debate on DebateIsland. Lets please limit the debate to legal immigration only, as illegal immigration topic is a debate by itself.
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People like founders of Google and Reddit are all immigrants.
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As of now, you only can really get a long-term visa if you are connected in a strong way either to a private company in the US, or to a private citizen in the US, or to the public services in the US. But if you are, say, a highly qualified programmer who wants to move to the US, but cannot easily find employment while living overseas - then you are out of luck. A lot of specialists are forced to choose Canada, Australia or New Zealand instead, because of how much simpler it is for them to move there, and the US does not obtain specialists it could have.
On the other hand, some programs need to go away. DV lottery, for example, is, well, a lottery, and people who win it are not necessarily going to benefit the US.
So, to summarize, I think the focus of the US immigration system should shift - the system should be neither relaxed nor restricted, but it should be changed.
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