ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Illegal Immigration



Illegal Immigration

Introduction

The United States is a nation of immigrants, perhaps the leading country of immigration. There is an ever wider gap in America, however, between the general goal of maintaining this tradition and the more immediate one of channeling the immigrants who arrive through legal entry channels. U.S. immigration policy was not substantively changed by the September 11, 2001, acts of terrorism, even though the nineteen men who hijacked the planes were foreigners who had been in the United States for various lengths of time from one week to several years (Cornelius, 2005). Today illegal Immigration is one ...