During Obama's administration his immigration policies were vastly different then the one Trump is trying to impose. Obama focused more on "removing criminals rather than families, overhauling immigration courts, and making changes to the high-skilled visa system." Immigrants were allowed to stay in this country if they were parents of U.S. citizens or had a green card for at least five years. There was a limit to this though, there was a cap at five millions immigrants and no more would be allowed in even if they met these standards. There is 3.7 undocumented immigrants that are capable of registering and are protected for up to 3 years after they start to pay taxes as well as agree to a background check. If an immigrant arrived in the U.S. in the past five years they were not allowed to apply because the system is already saturated with immigrants trying to obtain citizenship. Obama also made more changes to The Department of Homeland Security and ICE; increasing border control. This gave legal immigrants easy access to traveling as well as changing jobs."We’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security," said Obama in one of his speeches."Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mother who’s working hard to provide for her kids. We’ll prioritize, just like law enforcement does every day. Now with a new president in office, Donald Trump, has come up with new immigration policies. Some of these policies are similar to Obama's but he has taken more action to keep this country safe. His three policy objectives are "border security: building a wall, interior enforcement: enforce our immigration laws and return visa overstays, and merit-based immigration system: establish reforms that protect American workers and promote financial success."
Although not all immigrants are criminals, Trump's policy will make it more difficult for the criminals to obtain access to green cards and visa's, making our country a safer place. The merit-based immigration system will allow only immigrants who will add to our society, making it a more advanced and educated country. Due to these important factors I beleive that Trump's immigration policy is better for America in the long run.
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In reading my classmate's opinion on immigration policies in their blog post, "A New era of Immigration" I disagree that Trump's policies are better. I began to analyze and take apart the specific differences between Obama and Trump immigration policies and why Obama had a better formula.
Obama focused on specific threats and had an outline for the guidelines of who would be detained at the border and why. His travel ban only lasted 6 months and was focused on one country. By saying, “Trump has taken more action to keep this country safe” is false, his policies are broader and leave it open to the discretion of law enforcement encouraging presumptions of criminals versus Obama’s policies that specified exactly who could not obtain visas or cross the border.
Trump, in my opinion, has caused more chaos by leaving the rules open to interpretation and I can see people being detained based on preconceived notions, which becomes an issue of prejudice and profiling. This does not keep our country safer it only promotes hatred of immigration.
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