Illegal Immigration Around the World: 13 Countries Compared to the United States
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Issue: Definitions
| Q: | What is illegal immigration? |
| Q: | What is legal immigration? |
| Q: | Should the term "illegal alien" be used to define persons in violation of immigration law? |
Issue: Immigration Quotas
| Q: | Should immigration quotas be increased? |
| Q: | Would an increase of immigration quotas reduce illegal immigration? |
Issue: Cuban Refugees
| Q: | Should Cubans who are intercepted at sea while trying to reach the United States be sent back to Cuba? |
Issue: Economic Impact
| Q: | Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? |
| Q: | How are illegal immigration and globalization related? |
Issue: Immigrants' Rights and Access to Services
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally have constitutional rights and protections when on American soil? |
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally have access to social services such as health care and public education? |
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally be allowed to buy or rent homes in the United States? |
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally be allowed to obtain a driver's license? |
Issue: Labor Market - American Workers and Employers
| Q: | Does illegal immigration harm American workers (for example, through job displacement or lower wages)? |
| Q: | Should employers who unknowingly hire immigrants who are in the United States illegally receive lighter penalties? |
| Q: | Should E-Verify, the federal government's electronic employment verification system, be mandatory for all employers? |
Issue: Amnesty and Legalization Debate
| Q: | What is an immigration amnesty? |
| Q: | Is amnesty a good solution to illegal immigration? |
| Q: | Is the legalization of immigrants in the country illegally a good solution to illegal immigration in America? |
| Q: | Should labor unions support an immigration amnesty? |
Issue: Deportation Debate
| Q: | What is deportation? |
| Q: | Is deportation a good solution to illegal immigration? |
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally who are parents of US citizen minors be deported? |
Issue: Borders
| Q: | Should the US military patrol the borders? |
| Q: | Should volunteer civilian groups such as the Minutemen patrol the borders? |
| Q: | Was a fence along the US Mexico Border a good solution to illegal immigration? |
Issue: Federal Immigration Law Enforcement
| Q: | Is the enforcement of existing immigration laws alone a good solution to illegal immigration in America? |
| Q: | Does immigration law discourage legal immigration? |
Issue: State and Local Law Enforcement
| Q: | Should state or local governments enforce federal immigration laws? |
Issue: Crime
| Q: | Should overstaying a visa be considered a federal crime (vs. a civil offense)? |
| Q: | Does illegal immigration relate to higher crime incidence? |
| Q: | How does illegal immigration affect the US prison system? |
| Q: | What happens (deportation, prison transfer, incarceration, etc.) to immigrants in the United States illegally who commit crimes in the United States? |
| Q: | Should immigrants in the United States illegally who are convicted of a crime be transferred or deported from the US? |
Issue: National Identification Card
| Q: | Should the United States implement a national identification card to help control illegal immigration? |
Issue: Legislation, 2000 - 2007
| Q: | Is the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act of 2007 (H.R. 4088) a good piece of legislation? |
| Q: | Is the 2006 Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA) a good piece of legislation? |
| Q: | Is President Bush's Secure Border Initiative a good plan? |
| Q: | Is the 2005 Sensenbrenner-King Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act a good piece of legislation? |
| Q: | What was the 2000 Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act? |
Issue: Historic Legislation, 1790 - 1996
| Q: | What was the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility (IIRIRA) Act? |
| Q: | Was the 1994 Californian Proposition 187 a good piece of legislation? |
| Q: | What was the 1990 Immigration Act (IMMACT 90)? |
| Q: | Was the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Act a good piece of legislation? |
| Q: | What was the 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act? |
| Q: | What was the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act? |
| Q: | What was the 1943 Magnuson Immigration Act? |
| Q: | What was the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act? |
| Q: | What was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act? |
| Q: | What was the 1790 Alien Naturalization Act? |