Thesis Statement On Immigration

The Problem of Immigration in the States Research Question Why is immigration a hot political issue facing policymakers and public administrators? What can the states and federal government do to resolve comprehensive immigration reform? Thesis Statement Immigration is one of the most political and economic issues been raised by the states. Most of the financial burdens for social services fall largely on the states and local governments through their entitlement programs which are over weighing the budgets. Key Hypothesis In the United States, the central tenant of immigration policy reform is the meanly focused on the control over border security and protection from allowing illegal persons for crossing and residing in those states bordering …show more content…

The study also took a close look at how the courts deal with the issue, the administrative interpretation of the law, and the application of the reform to be very critical and increasingly impossible. The author discovered that immigration reform has chronic problems, citizens’ disinterest to participate in the political process, government inefficacy, and centralized decision making away from the very communities imparted. The lack of enforcement is mounting pressure on states’ budgets (appropriation and allocations) of resources as the number of beneficiaries for social services increased. On the other hand, Dorsey and Diaz-Barriza (2007) studied President Barack Obama stands on immigration when he was then senator and compared them to conservative and liberal position. In the research, the author lamented that then senator Obama called for a comprehensive immigration reform that would deal with the issues of border security, employers sanction for hiring illegal individuals and a path to earned citizenship. Both sides agreed in part, but disagreed with the issue of path to citizenship which created gray lack. Today, the debate continues between the both political parties and the states leading the president executive action on immigration in recent …show more content…

Immigration as a critical issue in today’s political debate requires close attention to the variables been investigated fiscal policies, unemployment rate, economic growth rate, immigration rate, crime rate, and federal assistance to deal with the current problems. In order to do that, it is very important to use the theory of human motivation to explain mitigate those individuals to the United States in the first place. In the same manner, this investigation will reflect the economic theory (game theory) to review who is benefiting and who is loosing in the process. On the hand, the [political theory will explain the leaders policies and institutions cooperation in dealing the issue of