Unequal Disperssion of Migrant Work Visas

Illegal immigration in the United States, especially over the Arizona/Mexico border has become a heated issue over the last few years. The amount of illegal immigrants has not increased or decreased by a dramatic amount, but has stayed consistent. This fact may be surprising, but there are also factors that could be altered to effect these circumstances. A major factor that plays into illegal immigration is the small amount of work visas that are available to people from Mexico. The United States offers thousands of work visas to countries all over the world, the problem is their method of distribution. The same amount of work visas are available to a small country like Poland as to Mexico. The amount of immigrants coming from Mexico is obviously greater. This problem could be solved by offering more work visas to countries such as Mexico where more immigrants are coming from and less to other, smaller countries. This would work in the favor of the immigrants as well. Immigrants from Mexico are coming to work and better their daily lives, but not as many of them as we think wish to become full time citizens of the country. This process is long and tedious, plus they also want to stay home with family and friends. The work visa offers an opportunity to simply come to the US and work, and then return home. If more visas were offered to a country such as Mexico, the possibility of decreasing illegal immigration rates across the deadly Arizona/Mexico border might be in the future. If course, the easy accessibility to these visas would still have to be possible, otherwise not many immigrants would take the chance to apply for them.

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