Immigration Ought To Be Recognized As A Human Right

I thank you, Mr. Instigator for posting this debate as I am a child of an Immigrant family, so I understand your point completely. I don't entirely disagree with you on your point, and your deposition makes a lot of sense. However, there are a few flaws with that plan and this is why: 1. Yes, it may be true that people migrate here to America to escape the harsh conditions that come with receiving your rights, it is also true that some people escape their countries because they have committed a crime that could possibly get them killed. Here is an example, Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden is wanted here in both America and Sweden for exposing government files, to the public. Edward did a crime that is a major offense to the government and can have him blacklisted everywhere. He can easily escape to any country and claim political asylum, and the country he committed the crime in, can no longer get to him. But what is left behind is the many people he affected and the acts committed. Now, I don't necessarily know if he hurt anyone personally like families or anything by exposing anything personal, but in the case where he might have, he hurt a lot of people. Unfortunately, for those families that he hurt, justice cannot prevail for them and their hope in basically all they got. If the home country could never get to him, justice will never prevail for those families and those families can be affected for the rest of their lives, possibly for generations and afterward if they can never get to his assets if he was to die and whenever he did. 2. It is a very risky idea to make that a human right. As the first paragraph proved, it is already dangerous if the immigrant had committed a crime in his home country. Now imagine that happening here. Some immigrants, not all, illegally come here or they illegally smuggle illegal things into this country. Take, for example, that monster Trump's main idea about the wall. Part of the reason he wants the wall is so that undocumented immigrants, don't smuggle things across the border. Sometimes people smuggle drugs, weapons, and even humans for sex trading or money. Already here in America, that is a major problem for many immigrant women. On top of that, poses a risk for terrorists to enter the American borders, and terrorize the soil. ISIS is an example as they are presumed to have entered the American borders through Mexico. http://www.judicialwatch.org... 3. It weakens the security of the country. By stating that it should be a national right to immigrate to wherever you please by law, the country is allowing the structural integrity of the infrastructure of the country to weaken. That allows as aforementioned above that anyone can by right enter the border no matter what. That makes the country vulnerable, and open to attackers and terrorists. Not only that but that also enables immigrants to commit serious offenses that could not only jeopardize them, but also the public as a whole. If we tend to think about it in such a way, it is a possibility that could easily happen at any time whatsoever. http://www.fairus.org... http://www.usborderpatrol.com... 4. It creates another scenario of the Great Depression Although in America, we have put up securities like Social Securities and Federal Banking Trust Funds and such, that does not ensure that the Great Depression cannot happen again. The Great Depression happened in the 1930s all the way into the early 1940s. That happened the same time around the influx of many immigrants had flooded into America. That weakened the economy greatly, as many had become either too poor or too rich to support yourself. It left many hungry and unable to support themselves, in poverty. It left families to work and toil for hours and hours on end, receiving little pay and receiving little food. Although World War 2 may never happen again, we did almost see something like that in 2008, in the Great Recession. The economy could not support the amount of people in the country. If we allowed people to randomly just migrate wherever they choose freely, we could see this as a worldwide problem. There is not to say that there aren't any benefits like a boost in the economy, and of course the access to liberty, and better living conditions for them, but it does pose many risks as to how that may affect a country. I, however, agree that people should be able to migrate, but I don't think that people should have that as a right. That could cause many problems. I am sorry for the struggles that your ancestors may have gone through to get here to receive the freedoms and liberties that they did not get from their home countries, and I hope that no one of your family will have to go through that... And I thank your father for fighting for this country and I freely salute him as many other I hope will too.