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Mitt Romney’s rigid position on illegal immigration and embrace of Kris Kobach, former law professor and architect of a law to rid Arizona of illegal aliens, may well cost him the fall election even if helps him win the Republican nomination.
The United States has an unwritten but plain immigration policy.
The U.S. Border Patrol imposes significant risks on people trying to enter the country illegally but once inside, illegal immigrants usually can find work and remain here. They manage to obtain false documents or work off the books, and are significant shares of the workforce in agriculture, construction and many service activities.
States issue drivers licenses—which function as the primary form of identification in the United States—often with few or ineffective efforts to determine immigration status.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/17/why-romneys-stance-on-immigration-could-cost-him-white-house/
Some Visa Categories Are More Vulnerable than Others
One of the ongoing problems with America’s immigration policy is that it is not a single, unified policy, but rather a conglomeration of various immigrant, nonimmigrant, and refugee policies, all operating quite separately. A related problem is that available statistics on these programs sometimes make it awkward to analyze the programs in question.
There are literally scores of nonimmigrant (temporary) visa categories and millions of applicants with large numbers of government officials deciding, on a case-by-case basis, who should be admitted and who should be refused. How does this part of the process work, and what does the government tell us about it?
The basic answers are, “unevenly” and “not much,” but the Center for Immigration Studies has devised an easy-to-understand index, or box score, which shows:
issuing or denying tourist visas in non-visa-waiver countries, is, in this context, the major headache to the government;
visas for students, short-term unskilled workers (H-2A and H-2B), and religious workers are much more troublesome to State Department officials than most other categories;
and the least difficult grouping of them all, by a country mile, are visiting officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2012,0113-north.shtm
The United States has an unwritten but plain immigration policy.
The U.S. Border Patrol imposes significant risks on people trying to enter the country illegally but once inside, illegal immigrants usually can find work and remain here. They manage to obtain false documents or work off the books, and are significant shares of the workforce in agriculture, construction and many service activities.
States issue drivers licenses—which function as the primary form of identification in the United States—often with few or ineffective efforts to determine immigration status.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/17/why-romneys-stance-on-immigration-could-cost-him-white-house/
Some Visa Categories Are More Vulnerable than Others
One of the ongoing problems with America’s immigration policy is that it is not a single, unified policy, but rather a conglomeration of various immigrant, nonimmigrant, and refugee policies, all operating quite separately. A related problem is that available statistics on these programs sometimes make it awkward to analyze the programs in question.
There are literally scores of nonimmigrant (temporary) visa categories and millions of applicants with large numbers of government officials deciding, on a case-by-case basis, who should be admitted and who should be refused. How does this part of the process work, and what does the government tell us about it?
The basic answers are, “unevenly” and “not much,” but the Center for Immigration Studies has devised an easy-to-understand index, or box score, which shows:
issuing or denying tourist visas in non-visa-waiver countries, is, in this context, the major headache to the government;
visas for students, short-term unskilled workers (H-2A and H-2B), and religious workers are much more troublesome to State Department officials than most other categories;
and the least difficult grouping of them all, by a country mile, are visiting officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2012,0113-north.shtm
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