Tavern Debate: Resolved: Raise the Bar on Immigration!

Resolved: Raise the Bar on Immigration!

The United States of America is famously a nation of immigrants, but “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” is not a statement of official U. S. government immigration policy. It’s merely the most famous part of a poem intended to help raise funds in the 1880s for a pedestal for New York’s Statue of Liberty and ultimately inscribed inside the pedestal in 1903. Conditions have change dramatically both internationally and domestically in the past 100 years, however, and U. S. immigration policy is currently under critical review.

With the national debt an unfathomable $ 22 trillion dollars and the threat of international terrorism remaining high, should the United States – like several other advanced nations – have a “merit-based” immigration system; should it continue to favor “friends and family” and random lottery winners regardless of need; or should the nation take some other approach to current and future immigration? A nation that cannot control its borders or its budget is, after all, not a nation at all.

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