ABSTRACT
In the United States, Congress has the power to establish uniform rules of naturalization. According to the American Immigration Council, every US president since 1956 has granted temporary immigration relief to one or more groups. American attitudes about immigration and the resulting laws have “reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times”. Americans have long had a love–hate relationship with immigration. The shortest abridged history of the American people is that humans migrated to North America in the last Ice Age and evolved into the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. The assumption that America was ordained as a nation for white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant people is as old as the country itself. The United Nations reported over 68 million refugees displaced by war and economic hardship as of 2017. Immigration law should help migrants resettle and integrate quickly into the social, political, and economic life of a community.
