Should American Encourage Immigrants?
1.Should American encourage immigration?
Immigration policy affects all aspects of society. Regardless of status, immigrants have always played a central role in the life and growth of a nation.An Immigrant is a person who has citizenship in one country but who enters a different country to set up a permanent residence. Just entering another country does not make you an immigrant. In order to be an immigrant you must have citizenship in one country, and you must have gone to a different country with the specific intention of living there. Immigration to the US is highly competitive and, depending on an individual’s situation, can be a lengthy and complicated process. Immigration procedures and requirements are broadly divided into three categories: those attempting to immigrate on …show more content…
As a nation that is growing increasingly diverse, we need to determine what kind of future we want and what standards we are going to use to allocate educational opportunities.
Like most Americans, colleges and universities recognize the power that emanates from education and the benefits that accrue from integrated educational institutions where people of various backgrounds might talk, argue and think together. The primary purpose of affirmative action in education has been to involve qualified students of all backgrounds in our nation’s most rigorous educational offerings. As Justice Powell wrote in the Bakke case, “Diversity in our colleges and universities improves the learning process for everyone. . .the nation’s future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to the ideas and mores of students as diverse as this nation of many peoples.” Too often people mistake affirmative action with educational preferences for unqualified students. In fact, affirmative action rewards merit. Recent studies of test scores and high school grades— the traditional and presumably “objective” standards for measuring student
Immigration policy affects all aspects of society. Regardless of status, immigrants have always played a central role in the life and growth of a nation.An Immigrant is a person who has citizenship in one country but who enters a different country to set up a permanent residence. Just entering another country does not make you an immigrant. In order to be an immigrant you must have citizenship in one country, and you must have gone to a different country with the specific intention of living there. Immigration to the US is highly competitive and, depending on an individual’s situation, can be a lengthy and complicated process. Immigration procedures and requirements are broadly divided into three categories: those attempting to immigrate on …show more content…
As a nation that is growing increasingly diverse, we need to determine what kind of future we want and what standards we are going to use to allocate educational opportunities.
Like most Americans, colleges and universities recognize the power that emanates from education and the benefits that accrue from integrated educational institutions where people of various backgrounds might talk, argue and think together. The primary purpose of affirmative action in education has been to involve qualified students of all backgrounds in our nation’s most rigorous educational offerings. As Justice Powell wrote in the Bakke case, “Diversity in our colleges and universities improves the learning process for everyone. . .the nation’s future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to the ideas and mores of students as diverse as this nation of many peoples.” Too often people mistake affirmative action with educational preferences for unqualified students. In fact, affirmative action rewards merit. Recent studies of test scores and high school grades— the traditional and presumably “objective” standards for measuring student