Immigration Policy.

As foreigners fly into East Coast airports, specifically, New York's LaGuardia, they can't help but notice the Statue of Liberty and think what it possibly stands for. Our immigration policy has been a joke for the past 200 years and we must reinforce them or pay the consequences. Since the mid 1800s the United States has amended laws to accommodate those looking for a better way of living and welcoming millions of outsiders with open arms. From 1900 - 1910 almost one million immigrants entered the U.S. per year. Organizations were formed urging laws to restrict immigration. Various laws were passed adding restrictions to immigration policy. "Then in 1924 the U.S. passed the National Origins Act. This act further limited immigration by reducing the allowable number of entries to two percent and by using the 1890 census as the base. The National Origins Act ultimately discriminated against the newer immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, favoring immigration from northwestern Europe, and barring immigration from the Far East" (Sociology Timeline.

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This law prevented many eastern Europeans from immigrating to the United States during World War II. It was only repealed in 1965. Since the Great Depression and World War II, immigration has steadily risen in the U.S. In the 1980s and 1990s the number of immigrants was over 700,000 per year and continues to rise.

Our Nation's economy feeds off national security and we can't afford to jeopardize neither our Nation's sovereignty nor its economy by minimizing our immigration policies. Since the September 11 attacks, we have painfully learned that massive illegal immigration is not merely an insult to immigration laws, but it is a serious threat to our national security. There are many different ways that the U.S. can change immigration policy and still maintain a strong economy.