Immigration Policy A Desirable Principle For...

Throughout American history, immigration policy, as Marcelo Suà ¡rez-Orozco notes, has been driven by the concern of whether or not newly admitted immigrants â€Å"would [be able to] contribute to the American project.† Current US immigration regulations, most notably, the criteria for Green Card eligibility established by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), were drafted with this same fear in mind, and are based off of two principles that may be summarized as: family unification and talent attraction. Though there is much to be said on the topic of family unification, and the value of the family unit itself is a point of contention, for the sake of evaluating immigration criteria, this paper will take for granted that family unification is a desirable principle for establishing immigration criteria. 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