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A 5 page paper which examines whether or not states should institute stricter controls on immigration than what is provided by the federal government. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of controversy (Martin and Midgley 3). But there has always been a shared ambivalence among Americans regarding the number of immigrants that should be allowed to freely cross the
borders of Canada and particularly Mexico in order to gain entry into the United States (Martin and Midgley 3). Presently, the US "accepts more legal immigrants... than the rest
of the world combined (Wilson 534). But ever since the founding fathers of the eighteenth century, Americans have expressed considerable concern "about potential economic, political, and cultural change caused
by immigration" (Martin and Midgley 3). Out of the 95,000 foreigners that arrive in the United States every day, more than 1,000 of these immigrants (predominantly Mexicans) are able
to successfully maneuver through border controls to enter and settle, which means that more than 350,000 of them live and work there illegally (Martin and Midgley 3). Ever since
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been an added fear among native-born Americans of immigrants, but the truth of the matter is that long before 9/11, studies
revealed that more than 70 percent of American wanted immigration significantly reduced primarily through stricter border controls (Martin and Midgley 3). Although there has historically been quite a bit of
argument as to whether states or the federal government should preside over immigrants crossing state borders, most are of the opinion that this is a clearly defined role of the
federal government. However, this is not true because the U.S. Constitution never specifies this is a function that is under the auspices of the federal government (Weisselberg 6).
By the nineteenth century, the battleground raged between the states and federal government regarding border control so the Supreme Court felt compelled to step in and draw some territorial boundaries
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