Illegal Immigration | U.S. Refugee Policies Do Not Encourage Illegal Immigration

Some immigration policy critics have claimed that foreigners are taking advantage of American refugee policies by immigrating to the United States illegally. In the following viewpoint, taken from a policy paper produced by the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF), U.S. refugee policies are defended as a humane and decent response to people fleeing political unrest or other similar conditions in their home countries. Policies such as the granting of “temporary protected status” (TPS) do not worsen the problem of illegal immigration, the authors assert, since many refugees that...

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