"Day Without Immigrants"

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This paper analyzes the history of U.S. immigration policy. The paper reviews the problems associated with previous immigration policies and the essential tenets of the proposed program. The paper then takes a look at the viability of the proposed policy being considered in Congress.

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"The implementation of either bill, or a similar revision regarding immigration policy, will be a difficult one both socially and politically for many of the individuals involved. The employers who have illegal workers on their payrolls will have to admit to paying foreign workers, and will definitely feel an economic effect from having to pay these workers a fair wage. Additionally, politicians face a lack of public support for either decision they make on this issue; the public nature and the controversial subject matter will make the immigration bill an important factor in the midterm elections. Cultural and social support for the measure will be counterbalanced in many areas with the anti-immigrant sentiments seen in the House bill, especially in areas where the focus on national security and protectivist economics are more popular than the civil rights and free trade movements are. Actual implementation of immigration reform, once passed in the legislature and approved by the President, will require social activism on the part of communities to encourage compliance with the measure, much in the way that the civil rights movement of the 1960s still required individual communities to demonstrate support for the measures implemented by the federal government before they became policy and standard behavior locally. The immigration reforms will require the same mixture of social and public awareness as well as the executive powers of the government (especially with regard to the business aspects involved) to effectively implement reform."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bickerton, Maria Elena. "Prospects for a bilateral immigration agreement with Mexico: Lessons from the Bracero Program" Texas Law Review 79:4, March 2001, 895-919.
• Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by the forty-seventh Congress, session I, 1882. Full text available at http://www-marine.stanford.edu/HMSweb/cea.htm.
• Flowers, Christine. "The Difficulties Immigrants Face in the Post 9-11 World," FindLaw's Legal Articles, posted May 1, 2003. Available at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030501_flowers.html
• Gaouette, Nicole. "Immigration Debate is Revived in Senate," LA Times 5/12/06
• Halifax, Guy. "The Immigrant Scourge," Overland Monthly 63 (January 1904)

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