Immigration has been a controversial issue for many years, both nationally and globally. Since the conception of the country, people have been migrating, crossing both uncharted and charted boundaries for various reasons. Many individuals migrate willingly in search for greater employment opportunity and educational success. There are many others who migrate in order to escape war-torn countries and seek refuge in any country willing to grant them asylum from the continued violence.
Currently, such is the case with Syrians migrating to Europe in order to escape the chaos of their home land. The United States experiences such influx of immigrants due to the drug related violence plaguing South America. Such individuals can request permission from a country’s government to grant them asylum. Although, if they are to be rejected they face deportation immediately and are faced with the frightening burden of returning to the place they were escaping. This notion adds to the influx of individuals who would much rather
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They now make up a tenth of the American populations and with such immense numbers it is no wonder why the call for immigration reform continues to make its way onto the public agenda. “If immigration rates continue, by the year 2060, minority groups, collectively, will constitute the “majority” of Americans” (American Government and Politics Today, 501). With such a notion made clear to the public, it is clear that when the estimated minority bypasses the current majority, the now Anglo dominated political scene will shift in favor of the new majority. Such an aspect is frightening to the majority in current control of the political climate in the United States. It is not to say that immigration policies are made directly to derail such an event from passing, but it is clear that many of the current immigrants in the United States suffer scrutiny due to their illegal status in the