The Socio-economic Pros & Cons of Bush’s Policy Decisions on Immigration after 9/11

9/11 terror attacks triggered profound changes in the US national security policies. In this regard, the US focused on the tightening of the immigration policy in particular because terrorists involved in 9/11 attacks were all foreign nationals. However, the tightening of immigration policies brought not only positive socioeconomic outcomes but also negative ones.

The major drawbacks of Bush’s policy decision on immigration after 9/11 include the rise of costs of the monitoring and control over immigration and introduction of new, costly screening system to cut off international terrorists. New systems and tight measures to screen and control the access of not only immigrants but also tourists, students and other people, who arrived to the US from abroad, had increased costs of immigration policies substantially (Parker & Fellner, 2004).                                                                                                                       

New immigration policies led to the reduction of the flow of immigrants from countries which could have supplied labour force to the US labour market. Immigrants from Muslim countries were the first in the raw to suffer from new policies because their access to the US was substantially restricted, but Muslim families traditionally had many children and they might have contributed to the labour force in the US (Hamblen, 2003).

The major benefit of new immigration policies was the enhancement of the quality of immigration since new policies reduced the access of immigrants with criminal records or other immigrants, whose background was suspicious. New policies just prevented immigrants, who could slip to criminal activities, from the access to the US.

In addition, new policies increased trust and sense of security in the US that contributed to the economic revival after 9/11terror attacks. Investors in the US as well as foreign investors had regained the confidence in the capability of the US government to maintain national security (Levi, 2003).

Thus, new, tight immigration policies restricted the access to the US of new labour force and increased costs of the maintenance of migration agencies and related operations, but such measures contributed to the rise of trust and security among American as well as foreign investors as well as they contributed to the consistent improvement of the quality of immigrant labour force.

References:

Hamblen, J. (2003). What Are the Traumatic Stress Effects of Terrorism? New York: New Publishers.

Levi, M.A. (Oct. 24, 2003). Preventing Nuclear and Biological Terrorism, The Brooklings Institutions, 22(4), 145-152.

Parker, A. and Fellner, J. (Jan. 2004). Above the Law: Executive Power after September 11 in the United States, World Report 2004, Human Rights Watch, 10(12), 105-112.

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