Advantages and Disadvantages of Migration

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A majority of citizens and people worldwide criticized President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that separated children from their parents and caused unspeakable anguish and misery on the child migrants. The separation of families at the Mexican border began with President Barrack Obama, who detained families caught crossing into America to discourage future undocumented immigration. While the Obama Administration tried to restrict family separations to circumstances where the child's safety was at risk, Trump's administration implemented a harsher stance towards undocumented border crossers. It violated the Fifth Amendment right to family integrity as it separated children from their parents CITATION Per21 \l 1033 (Perez, 2021). Hundreds of children were forced to endure irreversible psychological torture, and some children were never reunited with their families, even after leaving the immigration detention centers.
U.S. immigration policy has a lengthy and complex history predating the Obama and Trump-era immigration policies. America started regulating immigration a short while after gaining independence, and immigration laws have since then echoed the policies and migrant flows of the periods. For instance, the United States passed several immigration laws starting in 1875 targeting the growing population of Asian laborers, first restricting Chinese immigrants and later disallowing immigration from most Asian countries. The country’s immigration flow in the early 20th century then shifted away from western and northern European nations or even Asia and eastern and southern Europe CITATION Jag14 \l 1033 (Jaggers, Gabbard, & Jaggers, 2014). In response, immigration laws were enacted in 1921 and 1924 to cap the number of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and favored northern and western European countries.
Various other laws have been passed over the years, although many of these restrictions were applied to immigrants from Asia and Latin America, in particular, rather than Europe. Congress has enacted several laws over the last decades to control the millions of unauthorized immigrants crossing from Latin America, some of which violate the fundamental human rights of children seeking asylum. Most undocumented border crossers are children escaping conflict, violence, and poverty in their home countries. Despite their plausible claims to asylum, these children suffer abuse and severe neglect at the hands of U.S. immigration officers. The detained children are not only separated from their parents but are forced to live in deplorable conditions. Some children are only a few years old and are left unattended for days on end with no family member or caregiver to care for them.
The morality of immigration control, especially about child migration, is a raging debate between protecting the country's sovereignty and respecting the fundamental human right to self-determination. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the universal right of emigration. Yet, all states ag...