### action:

Immigration
* Describes where to find records.
* Is responsible for the administration of immigration functions throughout the country.
* affects the United States in many ways.
* also drives down wages for the U.S.-born poor
  - has a major impact on the welfare system
  - leads to population growth
* can determine the choice of profession and degree of success in one's professional life.
* can impact the future of immediate family and descendants for generations
  - the immediate family
* comes into play in the context of rights of entry for spouses.
* complex field where laws and regulations change quickly and often.
* continues to have a profound impact on American cities and institutions.
* continuing source of our social, economic and cultural richness.
* contributes to growth
  - our society
* creates change, which generates societal stress.
* decisive variable in demographic and economic forecasting.
* decreases during the American Civil War.
* describes organisms arriving from outside the population.
* drain on the U.S. economy.
* fundamental measure of a society's openness to the world.
* has have impact
  - modest impact
* health threat to the citizens of the United States.
* helps to sustain the population of some European countries.
* hot button issue in border states.
* increases economic growth by A. increasing the quantity of labor.
* infuses our culture with diversity from around the world.
* is about the global movement of people to meet the world's changing needs
  - also a discretionary policy of the federal government
* is an Environmental Issue
  - important feature of Australian society
  - integral part of the Asian consciousness
  - issue most people are singularly reluctant to face
  - bodies
  - central to any debate about race
* is mostly an urban phenomenon
  - the province of the young
* is one of the most pressing problems facing the United States today
  - thorniest issues in relations between the United States and Mexico
  - responsible for isolated areas of high prevalence in some Western countries
* is the Asian American form of natural childbirth
  - act of coming to a foreign country to live
  - best way to tell which countries are the best and worst in which to live
  - driving force behind the Hispanic growth
  - formal name for the procedure by which non-citizens enter the United States
  - leading cause of population growth in the Unites States
  - movement of individuals into a population
  - regular movement of individuals or populations each year during certain seasons
  - single largest factor in America's population growth
  - thus a basic and important determinant of our population size and growth
  - tied to the dispersal ability of the species
* leads to conflict.
* major part of our history as well as of our present societal structure.
* matter of federal law rather than state law.
* occurs when new species are introduced.
* partial answer to low birth rates.
* positive source of economic growth, cultural diversity, and social renewal.
* public policy issue.
* reduces the uncuttable social costs of the elderly.
* refers to entering a country.
* reflects the movement of the most important of all economic resources.
* relationship between countries, forged by people passing back and forth.
* source of good as well as poor germplasm.
* undermines the social, cultural, and ethnic cohesion necessary to sustain our society.

### action | immigration:

Illegal immigration
* causes school overcrowding.
* daily problem in Romania.
* is an enormous problem for the United States, and one that is growing
  - international crime
* threat of a different nature.

Legal immigration
* is one of the cornerstones of our society.
* offers families a chance for reunification.