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U.S. immigration policy has been constantly evolving since 1965 and will continue to do so. Between 1965 and 1980, admission to the United States by immigrants was founded in Cold War policy and fear. Since the Refugee Act of 1980, policy has become more and more open, despite attempts to stem the influx of immigrants in recent years. Bibliography lists 4 sources. jvImmPol.rtf
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immigrants was founded in Cold War policy and fear. Since that time, the policy has become more and more open, despite attempts to stem the influx of immigrants in recent
years. Dr. Joseph Chuman writes that the 1980 Refugee Act, passed at the end of the Carter Administration, brought U.S. law into
accordance with the United Nations Convention on Refugees. He writes that the "only criterion" for asylum was a persons "endangerment" and included any person "who is unwilling or unable to
. . . avail himself or herself of the protection of their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular
social group, or political opinion" (Chuman L08). According to Susan Martin, the 1980 policy was written vaguely to give the Department of
Justice control over who was given asylum because the purpose of the act was to "make U.S. refugee policy ideologically neutral" for the express purpose of allowing admission to "individuals
from Communist countries" (Martin 13). When it passed the Refugee Act of 1980, the government anticipated that it would grant asylum to about
5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigration is just over 100,000 per year, which is
more refugees than "all other nations together except for permanent resettlement" (Barnett 151). In addition to those seeking traditional asylum under the 1980 Act, the United States stretches the boundaries
of the act to grant asylum to about 20,000 Cubans every year (Barnett 151). To stem the tide of arriving immigrants, the
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