Do you think immigration policy is a part of national security?

Question

Do you think immigration policy is a part of national security?

Answer 1

How could it not be? Without a strict immigration policy, we may as well lay off every airport security guard we have, because in the end, their jobs will be useless.

Answer 2

I don't know

Answer 3

Katie has it absolutely correct! How could it not be a part of National security? If existing immigration policies were properly followed we might have gotten more information on the people who committed the terrorist attack September 11! I have heard  reports of many Chinese nationals in military garb crossing over from Mexico! This laxity of immigration policies is letting potential terrorists into our country!

Answer 4

The Japanese already thought it was when protestant missionaries tried to spread their ideas overseas (17th century).

Answer 5

well you should never let bad people into your country,

other wise counrties make people look ugly on the inside

Answer 6

Yes, but it also needs to be understood that there should be limits to all things.  The wall being built along the US/Mex border reminds me of a few other walls and a statement by one of our more famous presidents.

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

That wall, of course, was intended to keep people in, not to keep them out, but the idea of a wall is still unsettling.

An immigration policy is in effect in most nations of the world, including Mexico, where immigrants coming in through Guatemala are a constant source of problems for them and, I hasten to add, for us.

The issues involved here are far more complicated than what you see on the surface, and a fine line between abuse of human rights and national security is being walked in a rather clumsy dance.  It is something I know I am in no position to resolve.  So, the answer to your question is, yes, without doubt.

What to do about it is beyond me and, I would venture to say, beyond the majority of the people to whom we entrust our national security (Our own government.).

I could be altruistic and say we should remove all boundaries between the peoples of the world but, of course, that would be an extremely foolish and myopic statement to make.

J.

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"The speed of the brain is inversely proportional to the speed of the mouth squared."

Answer 7

Of course it is!

Answer 8

Probably. I am not sure, but at the beginning of the 20th century we did the same thing. However, I don't think we went into it so hard-headed, because all we did before was put an annual limit on how many immigrants could come it. It's just history repeating itself. It'll calm down in a few years (at least I hope).

Answer 9

I agree that it probably is. However, one must remember that while uncontrolled immigration may be a threat to national security, not every single person that crosses the border is.

Answer 10

I think that the illegal immigrants are part of our national problem and that needs to be fixed, some thing has to be done.

Because it is a security risk for all of us, so yes in a way it is!  Who knows who is really coming into our country and what they are really doing, I don't know do YOU?

Answer 11

Uncontrolled illegal immigration is another form of invasion.

So very much YES an immigration policy is part of any national security policy.

Flooding a nation with illegal immigrants has the same effect on the social fabric of that nation as flooding a nation with counterfeit money has on the economy of that nation.

One of the accepted reasons for the demise of the Roman Empire was the barbarian invasions - unrestricted illegal immigration.