What immigration policy governs

Immigration policy means the national laws, regulations, and legal precedents that govern immigration into and deportation from a country. The lessons answer how these rules shape entry and movement across borders, and what happens when policy and practice diverge. They connect questions of enforcement, migration pathways, and the consequences of border controls.

2 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 18 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

1. Read
   

   How Love Transformed American Immigration Law - JSTOR Daily · JSTOR Daily · 2 min read

   Marriage to American soldiers brought more than 100,000 new immigrants to the U.S. after the war. In the period from 1946-48, foreign-born spouses of former military service members made up more than 22% of all legal immigrants to the U.S.

2. Read
   immigration policy · Wikipedia · 8 min read

   Immigrant investor programs sometimes offer permanent residence or citizenship in return for investment. They originated in the 1980s when tax havens in the Pacific and Caribbean began "cash-for-passport" programs that facilitated visa-free travel and tax avoidance.

3. Watch
   

   America and Immigrants: A Fraught History | Big Think · YouTube · 8 min watch

   Immigration expert Lenni Benson challenges the idea that America once welcomed foreigners with open arms and describes immigration debate as a constant in American history.

4. Book
   

   American Dirt · Bookshop.org

   American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is about a Mexican bookseller forced to flee to the United States as an undocumented immigrant with her son after her journalist husband exposes a local drug kingpin, depicting one family's flight across the border.

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