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05/17/2020
The Honorable Senator Tammy Duckworth
230 South Dearborn Street Suite 3900
Chicago, IL 60604
RE: Immigration Policy
Dear Senator Tammy Duckworth
My name is (insert your name), and I am a high school senior who resides in your district. I am writing this letter to you addressing the issue of immigration reform policies.
At the federal level, immigration reform policy has played a significant role. However, it has gained traction in terms of direct participation by the state and the local governments. In reaction to the federal government’s failure to address this specific problem, the state and local governments have become intensely active in developing and implementing immigration policy. The effects of these policies have generated controversy over the economic legal and ethical implications of these aggressive immigration policies and increased copycat legislation in other states. While the federal government has not thoroughly addressed this issue, it is still an important topic that will be best systemically approached by the federal government, as opposed to individual state and local acts. Hence, this paper would discuss the ways and consequences that state and local governments have sought to tackle immigration reform through their actions and how that has only strengthened the claim that this particular issue should be best addressed at the federal level.
For decades, Immigration has been a touchstone of the united state’s discourse for politics, as the primary lawmakers have gauged the cultural, security, as well as the humanitarian concerns. For many years now, Congress has not been successful in reaching an agreement on the comprehensive overhaul of Immigration, mostly causing the shifting specific significant policy reforms into government executive and the judicial branches, and igniting controversy in state and local halls of government. Therefore, the Legislature has invested in establishing a functioning immigration program that alleviates lengthy and inefficient backlogs and also the delays and guarantees that Congress adopts any regulations are correctly and effectively implemented. The Task Force sets out a series of specific, practical proposals for legislation and institutional changes that will be part of it. As an immigrant daughter and an American Revolution child, you have supported comprehensive, equitable, compassionate, and fair reforms for Immigration because you believe the united states is better off when the rich heritage of Immigration of our country is embraced. You have acknowledged that immigrants are improving the American economy and neighborhoods through hard work each day to create a better life for themselves and their families.
The Supreme Court permitted Congress in recent years to transfer the authority it has on Immigration to the Executive body. Congress has allowed the Executive most of its plenary authority over sweeping in immigration grants more than in any other field of law. For instance, Congress gave the authority to the Executive body to decide if the America is at war and if the military personnel should be naturalized in deciding if immigrants will be given status on temporary basis to them. To evaluate whether an individual is permitted to work in the united states and to provide an individual the go-ahead to be in the US where the person is not eligible for a visa. As a result of two changes generated by the judiciary, the doctrine that Congress should delegate its authority to the President, the principle of plenary authority, the Executive Branch now enjoys substantial control over Immigration.
Border security is the immigration dimension that has gained the most coverage and was mostly at the center of the last shutdown. The general principle of improved border protection is beneficial for Americans. For instance, a recent survey by ABC News and the Washington Post found out that the majority of Americans believe like very little is being done to deter immigrants from entering the United States illegally. According to NBC News and Journal of the Wall Street poll showed just about one-third of Americans believe that the border is secure. And a few years ago, Gallup polling found that seventy-seven percent of Americans claim it’s necessary to monitor United States borders to avoid the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States.
Building barriers at the border is not a new issue. When Gallup asked Americans in 1993 to create a wall, seventy-one percent opposed it even before Trump joined the national political scene. By 2006, fifty-six percent opposed the building of a wall, about the same as today, where sixty percent have opposed it. Many polling reveals that Americans think it’s possible to achieve border protection without further walls. A recent Quinnipiac poll showed that sixty-one percent of American voters are in favor of investing more money on border protection without constructing a wall, and fifty-nine percent believe it is not appropriate to build a wall to secure the border. In a recent CBS News poll, the same percentage said that the border could be secured without building a wall. This shows that the solution to the immigration problem will be solved at the state level but through institution collaboration.
I’m not aware of the recent surveys on detention beds by public opinion. One of the things the average American, and most definitely, the average elected official does not have a lot of reliable information about. More generally, though, we know that about six out of ten Americans oppose the idea of deporting “all immigrants who live illegally in the United States.” I don’t think anybody on the committee was proposing that kind of massive effort. Yet consideration of plans to deport certain undocumented immigrants was extremely contentious. I believe that if a permanent solution to the issue of Immigration will be found, all the responsible institutions will need to collaborate in establishing more viable immigration reforms and policies.
In conclusion, the USA’s Immigration problems have long been concentrated in the so-called Immigration as well as Naturalization Program, frequently criticized for inefficiency. The Department of Homeland Security became the new immigration agency. It was a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which now had much of the policy and execution roles that the INS had before. There are also many other immigration institutions, such as the State Department and the Labor Department. Working in collaboration with these institutions will help in achieving immigration reforms that will be favorable to our district and the whole nation. I would like you to see that immigration policy reforms that uphold ethical, legal, and economic outcomes are geared towards being imposed.
Sincerely,
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