-It is a well known adage that America is a "Land of immigrants." Very few, other than First Nation peoples, can claim the United States (turtle island)as their ancestral home.Yet throughout our history the polocies we have adopted to deal with immigrants, whether legal or illegal, have been somewhat "schizophrenic." We have welcomed immigrants in the good times or when we have neede them and then selectivley shunned, deported or imprisoned them when they were no longer useful, wanted or needed. Nor can it be easily argued that we have treated European immigrants the same as we have immigrants from Asia or Latin America.
Shortly after Bush took office he engaged President Fox of Mexico in a dialogue that, among other things, raised the possibility of asylum for illegal immigrants in the US. Talk of loosening on immigration and on immigrants stopped abruptly after Sept. 11. The current wave of nationalism/ anti-immigrationism is not unique to America, as the recent French elections demonstrate.

The essay question is as follows:
Design an immigration polocie that incorporates humanitarian, economic, social and legal values in a way that you believe is fair to those seeking asylum or entry into the United States and, at the same time, protects it's national interests, security or otherwise.