Immigration Rules of Receiving Immigrants

Abstract

Legalization of immigrants is widely and critically used, but controversial method to manage illegal immigrants in US and Europe. The aim of this paper to address the issue of legalization or immigration rules of receiving immigrants in US and Europe by reviewing two articles.

Immigration Rules of Receiving Immigrants

Introduction

Legalization or regularization is a contemporary and persistent debatable issue in the present world and in the sphere of immigration. This is a controversial debate that is affecting both US and Europe, which forced lawmakers to design effective regimes of legalization. United States and Europe both legalized the illegal immigrants across the world history. Undeniably, legalization has many advantages such as it reduces the size of the population of a country, along with a significant integration and economic advantages of legalizing some illegal immigrants, especially long-term dweller with intimate attachment in their destination country and established families. In contrast, opponents asserted that measures of legalization, either narrow or broad in terms of scope, as a temptation to further illegitimate immigration and as amnesty for law violators.

The purpose of this research is to examine the idea of legalization or immigration rules of receiving immigrants in US and Europe by reviewing two articles. First article titled “Regularizations in Europe: Study on practices in the area of regularization of illegally staying third-country nationals in the member states of the EU” was written by Baldwin-Edwards. Second article under study is “Alien legalization and adjustment of status: A primer” written by Wasem.

Discussion

Legalization

These articles define legalization as the methods through which eligible, but illegal dwellers can be given whether permanent or temporary legal right to live in Europe. However, in Europe, legalization is defined as a procedure through which temporary or illegal resident become permanent and legal residents or citizen of US. In accordance with these definitions of legalization process, methods that alter the governing rules who can be admitted as migrants are not referred to legalization programs in US. For instance, Congress abolished prioritized family-based immigration and discriminatory national origin quotas in 1965. This legislative improves immigration system in US might not comes under programs of legalization. To provide a comparison between United States and Europe, merely legalization programs are taken into study.

Legalization in the United States

In US, programs of legalization may be classified into three groups: general, population-specific and registry. General programs are designed to cover a large percentage of illegal immigrants in US. Population-specific programs attempts to cover discrete populace of economic interest, unbiased, or humanitarian. Registry programs include individuals who have lived for a long period in US and meet other criteria of eligibility.

In 2011, there are about 11.1 million illegal immigrants out of that 8.5 million are eligible for legalization or legal permanent residents. The first program of legalization in US emerged because of anomalies constructed by the first quota restrictions during early 1920s. Legislation was passed by the Congress in 1929 that allowed illegal resident resided in US for a long time period and were ...