A News Article Analysis: Immigration (Essay Sample)

A News Article Analysis: Immigration
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A News Article Analysis: Immigration
In her article, Hansen (2020) explains how economic factors led to the decision by the United States president to temporarily restrict legal immigration into the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Immigration is among the top priority issues for voters in the United States because it affects the livelihoods of all people in varied ways. On one hand, president Trump believes that high numbers of immigrants into the United States have led to lower wages and increased unemployment rates for the citizens (Hansen, 2020). On the other hand, Blitzer (2019) argues that democrats and those aligned to their views have been against the Trump administration’s harsh policies on travel bans and family separation (arising from the deportation of illegal residents). The divergent opinions propagated by the leading political parties in the United States have put immigration policies at the center of the country’s politics. Voters view a leader’s immigration stand one of the important aspects to consider when choosing which candidate to support.
Both democrats and republicans agree that immigration policies are essential to the progress of the country but their opinions on what should be done to solve the immigration problems in the country are conflicting. More republicans than democrats advocate for an increased border security and deportations while a sizeable number of democrats advocate for a pathway towards providing a legal status to illegal immigrants who have been in the country for long (Daniller, 2019). The president’s plan to cease immigration into the United States has been criticized by democrats as the leadership’s way of using the coronavirus pandemic to propagate an anti-immigration regulation. On the other hand, republicans view the president’s move as the right one towards protecting the public in economic and health matters.
The stance held by the Democratic Party is reasonable in that immigration practices such as the processing of Visas have not been operational due to the current health pandemic; therefore, the order to stop legal migration into the country for 60 days is irrelevant. On the other hand, the Republican Party support of the executive order is purely political and only meant to appeal to voter bias. At the moment, there is little movement into the country which makes the immigration cessation policy not economically significant in the short run (Ordoñez et al., 2020). Social science research can better inform politicians and voters about immigration issues by interviewing policy advisers, citizens, as well as academic researchers wor