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A 6 page paper summarizing the basic points of US immigration laws in the post-9/11 environment. Immigration requirements already were difficult for many before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Since then, they have become quite stringent. Bibliography lists 5 sources. A companion PowerPoint presentation is available.
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File: CC6_KSlawImmig.rtf
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the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door." These words were true at
the time they were inscribed, but the world - and US immigration laws - are greatly different now. Today, immigration laws require demonstrable means of support, sound moral character
and a reason for wanting to immigrate to the US. Immigration requirements already were difficult for many before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Since then, they have
become quite stringent. The purpose here is to review current immigration laws. Law and Practice Since 9/11, the United States has placed
new interpretation on existing immigration law and created some new additions to it. Vesely (2002) complains that the "Bush administration appears to be circumventing the countrys immigration statutes, bending
the rules to such an extent that many citizens are expressing concern" (p. 20). It has been common to limit immigration from specific regions of the world, but the
aftermath of the terrorist attacks has been to cast suspicion on specific groups of people. Civil rights attorneys charge that some of the measures that have become operational in
the meantime are "not in accordance with the spirit of US statutes" (Vesely, 2002; p. 20). Those originating in the Middle East attract
the most intense scrutiny of immigration officials, but those same officials are quite interested in those of South Asian descent as well. In 2002, the US government deported 131
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