Immigration and Naturalization Service

The Department of Homeland Security is a merge of twenty-two governmental agencies into one; including Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the United States Coast Guard, and the Federal and Emergency Management Agency. The Department of Homeland Security placed one-hundred and thirty United States inspectors at ports in major European, Asia, and Muslim nations…

The Department of Homeland Security is an appropriate organizational design for several essential elements which are transferring immigration and naturalization service, border patrol, U.S. customs service, animal and plant health inspection service, U.S. Coastguard, and transportation security administration. The intelligence community mission is to supply the homeland security enterprise with timely intelligence information that is needed to protect, safe, resilient, and secure the United…

The next issue under title 2 that will be discussed will be about people applying for lawful permanent resident status for those who have already been granted RPI status. First off, in order to apply for LPI status, the applicant must have met all of the trigger requirements. If an applicant wants to apply for LPI status, they have to meet the six required application requirements. They have to already have possession of the RPI status, they cannot be out of the United States no longer than 180…

Analyze politically, socially and economically to what extent immigration impacted American society from 1865 to 1898. The United States has always been a mixing pot, immigrants from all over the world have been coming with a common goal to better themselves and their families. Nonetheless, immigrants had never had it easy to succeed in a foreign society, the time period 1865 to 1898 was no the exemption. Irish, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Chinese and Bohemians among many…

(the supposed weapon used by the 9/11 hijackers). Any knife with a blade up to four inches long was permitted. And cigarette lighters? No problem! In the wake of the terrorist attacks, airport security underwent a series of major overhauls. And a service that was once largely provided by private companies is now primarily overseen by the Transportation Security Administration. Created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the TSA is tasked with instituting new security procedures and managing…

be living here in the United States illegally (Krogstad). This overwhelming amount of unauthorized residents affects every American in a substantial way. Most people can agree that social programs like food stamps, medicaid, and other charitable services are great, necessary, or helpful. However, they are only developed for the purpose of getting back on your feet after a setback in life. The programs were not developed for people to live off of and only help themselves. The United States’…

Immigration has been a topic of hot debate throughout the world as of recent. Between the refugee crisis in the middle east, and rampant illegal immigration in the U.S., there is no denying it can and will be an issue for a country at some point. As mentioned, the U.S. ' main concern is illegal aliens entering the country. Though there have been many discussions searching for solutions, very few actually look for the reason why it is so wide spread. If the problem can be identified, perhaps it…

Immigration has become a divisive topic in the past year with many presidential candidates and legislators arguing on how it should be handled. The talking points on immigration have evolved to securing the southern border with Mexico and controlling the numbers of immigrants coming into the country. In estimates from 2013, the immigrant population is about 41.3 million individuals which is about 13 percent of the whole United States population (Zong and Batalova). This number includes refugees…

Portes, A., & Stepick, A. (1985). Unwelcome immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian refugees in South Florida. American Sociological Review, 493-514. The article, “Unwelcome Immigrants: The labor market experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida”, by Alejandro Portes, and Alex Stepick, gives an in depth perspective of the struggles of Cuban, and Haitian refugee who immigrated to America in 1980. The article focuses on…

Between the civil war (1865) and World War I (1914), 25 million Europeans immigrated to the US. More than half of all immigrants in the US were from eastern or southern Europe. This period was known as “new” immigration. The “old” immigration was before 1890 and the immigrants were mostly from northern and western Europe. Immigrants were mostly men and they all came in hope to find a better way of life. The majority of all of these Immigrants from Europe entered through Ellis Island. In the…