Immigration policies all over the world are affected by the country's laws and how their government deals with immigrants. They are also affected by how the country views the specific race. Immigration is people moving to another country in which they aren’t natives sometimes in hope to have a better standard living or many other reasons. Therefore immigration policies have to be enforced due to unlawful immigration, to increase border security, and to prevent visa violators (Felter and Renwick, 2018). Though something that has affected immigration policies have been racial prejudices. Typically, people tend to have biases and assumed prejudices from past generations that get passed down and they can be frowned upon in new generations. …show more content…
Immigration policies should allow for people to migrate freely and as time goes by immigration policies can get either more severe or they can become pretty lenient. For the Latino community migration to the United States has been one of the biggest and most significant economic changes. The United States has helped many immigrants. There have also been many other migrations to other countries that shaped the country and their immigration policies. Events are something that greatly impacts changes in immigration policies throughout the years. For example, the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and Voting Rights of 1965 ended many contract labor programs where immigrants had chances to work and get their citizenship. This is an example of how programs have been made to help immigrants and how prejudices do influence these government programs. Prejudice of these policies has formed since many years back and a prejudice formed from this would be a “typical worker in the field”. Many things affect immigration policies and some of those things are stuff we can't control anymore. People perceive others in different perspectives and this affects their prejudices and how others are treated. Overall prejudices shouldn't really be anything that is affecting immigrants and their journeys. This causes limitations for them and it is unhealthy for a government to be run on assumed discriminations. If a government is run like that this could lead to many negatives within the country. Therefore, it is better for governments to allow immigrants to migrate freely and to rather help them than to judge or not allow them into their country based on their