Tag: immigrants

State Level Immigration Policy

The author examines what level of responsibility there is between the federal government and the state government in creating policies around immigrants. Federal government ultimately has the largest responsibility in creating and enforcing the regulations around immigration, but the author examines how more recently states have been taking a larger role. The article begins by looking at the number of state legislation and resolutions that took place between 2005 and 2014. Arizona has stated a movement of legislation being created with what became known as the Omnibus Legislation because it lumped several bills into one. Within the next year, five other states passed similar legislation.

The journal then takes a wide look at all each state and the legislation they have enacted. This information is displayed in a large chart. The author then examines the different type of legislation more closely. It looks at law enforcement and the structure in which they exist and interact with immigrants. It touches on an E Verification for employment and how different states have different levels of requirements. It even continues into areas to determine how eligible immigrants are for In-State tuition and other financial aid resources, drivers licenses, and health care. Each area that is examined is accompanied by a diagram of the United States and to what degree the legislation exists.

The entire article is written about the laws and what limits are put onto immigrants and the way they are living. The journal was published in 2016 with much of its information coming from 2013-2015, being that it is currently 2019, I am unsure how much legislation has changed since the publication of this journal.

View journal here.

“Landscape of State-Level Immigration Policies.” A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies, by Lynn A. Karoly and Francisco Perez-Arce, RAND Corporation, 2016, pp. 3–20. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt1btc0p8.10.

Should States Have To Pay For Refugee Resettlement They Don’t Want

Tennessee makes its mark as the first state to tell the federal government that it can’t be forced to pay for the federal refugee resettlement program. It’s even suing them for its continuation of the program after the state withdrew from the program. Most costs fall to state taxpayers from the settlement, but they assert their right not to pay the state portion of the Medicaid bill for the refugees placed in Tennessee. Its General Assembly filed suit against the federal agencies responsible for the resettlement program over the right to enact the state’s annual budget without diverting Tenn Care funds to the federal government for refugees. However, the suit was dismissed on the grounds that the state legislature “lacked standing.”

When the act was passed, it was intended for the federal government alone to fund the program they created, but the costs shifted to state governments after Congress reduced funding for the refugee resettlement program. Regulations issued during the Clinton administration make it impossible for a state to stop paying program costs by withdrawing from the program, as in Tennessee, resulting in the state continuing to pay certain costs that were once the responsibility of the federal government. In 2016, after the Obama administration raised the annual refugee quota, more states asked to withdraw and sued the federal government in an effort to halt the planned large-scale Syrian resettlement. As of today, apart from Tennessee’s, there are no state refugee lawsuits are active today, as a result of Trump administration cuts to the refugee quota.

 

Article: https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/02/states-pay-refugee-resettlement-program-dont-want/

Refugee Employment at the Margins

In January, a parliament was ratified in Ethiopia, giving refugees rights, including the right to seek employment and education; Other countries should follow their footsteps by giving refugees better access to formal jobs and schooling, which would in turn also benefit host countries. According to the UNHCR, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a record of 68.5 million people worldwide, including 25.4 million refugees, have been forcibly moved as a result of persecution or generalized violence. Even though hosting large numbers of refugees is a challenge, there is increasing evidence of the economic benefits that the policies bring to the table. For example, Uganda’s Refugees Act of 2006 allowed them the right to work and access schools and hospitals, which stimulated economic growth by creating small businesses serving the wider community; Even going as far as to improve social integration and cohesion.

Evidence from the Center for Global Development indicates that giving refugees access to the formal labor market boosts growth, potentially creates new jobs for host-country citizens, and reduces reliance on aid. The UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report emphasizes that migrants and refugees have skills that can help transform the economies and societies of both their host and home countries. The governments can start by allowing them to attend local community schools, which would give them a better understanding and appreciation for the local culture and would increase their chances of finding a job in the formal sector. Many are working to debunk the notion that refugees are a burden on host countries, when actually, it’s the opposite that is true.

 

Article: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/inclusive-refugee-policies-jobs-education-by-karen-meyer-1-and-peter-materu-2019-04

Article Summary #2

Fox News Article

 

My second article focuses on what happened in New Zealand but how the attacks on Donald Trump for being an inspiration to the killer, and the outlash against his behavior on the matter are wrong.

The man accused of the attack on the mosques in New Zealand stated that Donald Trump is a “symbol of renewed white identity…” while Trump made comments seeming to go with the accuser being innocent: “I didn’t see it. I didn’t see it. But I think it’s a horrible event…a horrible disgraceful thing and a horrible act.” However, the accused man of the New Zealand attack also stated Trump as a bad policy maker and leader.

The article then talks about how Trump has always been attacked for his views related to immigration constantly with the most notable being the border wall which he promised when running for president. Regarding the events in New Zealand, Trump took it upon himself to call the Prime Minster of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, and extend his condolences for what happening telling her the U.S. will do whatever it can to help.

The Democratic party still takes aim at Trump opposing his viewpoints on immigration, and for secretly supporting nationalists and the KKK. One of the last paragraphs takes about statistics relating to white nationalists stating that deaths by white supremacists have gone up from 37 to 50 from 2017 to 2018. Donald Trump views the situation as a small group of people doing some bad things, but not a major issue at the moment.