Limiting Immigration To The United States

Immigration is a hot topic in the news almost every day. They talk mostly about how bad immigration is horrible for the country and how many problems it is causing for the country and needs to be controlled. Most people hear this one side of the immigration debate and tend to agree with these ideas without seeing all sides of the arguments and seeing all of the facts. There are two different but very important sides on how immigration should be dealt with; should the United States allow immigration into the country or should they try to control it. Supporters of the libertarian theory or the property theory, you feel that immigration is not a problem for the United States and should not be restricted. On the opposing side, theorist argue that …show more content…
According to Portes, people immigrate because of the push pull theory. This theory describes the different factors as to why people leave a certain country, called the push factors, and certain factors that draw people into a country, called the pull factors. The different types of push and pull factors: environmental, cultural and economic. The environmental push factors include bad drinking water or draught. On the opposite side of that, some environmental pull factors include a warm climate that has plenty of natural resources. The next set of factors are cultural. The cultural push factors that make people want to leave the country include slavery, bad politics and a lot of suffering in a country. The cultural pull factors for immigrants are the idea of freedom in certain countries and good political systems that are set up well and are running smoothly. The last set of factors are economical. People are pushed out of their own country because there are bad job opportunities and have very little luck moving ahead in life. These immigrants are pulled towards a country that there are jobs available and have a steady job market. Once you are able to understand these basic factors as to why people immigrate, understanding the other theories on how we should control the immigration problem will become much …show more content…
Krepelka (2010) talks about how the libertarians believe in free immigration. They think that the government should not control immigration into the country. The main reason for this, as Krepelka (2010) explains, is that people should have the freedom to choose what they want to do, not the government. As human beings, according to libertarians, we should not be controlled by the government and it does not have the right to say who can and can not come into the country. When looking at immigration through the libertarian view, it is seen on a more personal level. Every individual, according to Krepelka (2010), should have the choice on how they want to deal with immigration. He continues to say that people should have the choice if they want to hire immigrants to work for them or want immigrants to come onto your property; it is up to the individual person to decide what they want. Libertarians go on to say that when the government restricts immigration and starts to control immigration, they are taking away the rights from the citizens of the United States. As a citizen of the US, every person has certain rights. By restricting immigration, libertarians feel that you are not only keeping people out of the country but are in return, restricting the rights of the people who are already in the country who are free and promised theses