But if you continue on reading what the author, economic professor, says, he really is not on any particular side. He views illegal immigration on an economic and political side as a legal resident of the country. His essay was published in the summer of 1988 (Chiswick). In 1988 the U.S. went through an inflation and many tragic events occurred (The People History). In the essay “Illegal Immigration and Immigration Control,” it expresses “…With changes in U.S. immigration law and economic and political conditions in the United States and other countries, the nature and characteristics of illegal immigration have also changed” (Chiswick). I believe from this quote it explains due to the several events taking place in America at the time the U.S. was not worried about illegal immigration so it was an open opportunity to migrate (also at in this time the other countries were facing many events as …show more content…
However if you continue to read the director states “such violations of immigration laws happen with considerable frequency, and, although some are important, most are relatively 'innocent' because they are not systematic and are of short duration” (Papademetriou). In this quote you can see that the director is not all the way against “Illegal Immigration” because he describes most as “relatively