Course Project Milestone: Annotated Bibliography- APA FORMAT (4-7 pages)
COURSE PROJECT MILESTONE 2
Immigration
Charnita Ware
Chamberlain University
Ethics 445
Immigration
Immigration reform is a universal concept for variations or efforts to modify laws governing immigration and immigrants. Immigration reforms core the rules affecting the entrance of the new immigrants to the U.S. from all over the globe, also the situations needed to get the citizenship of the United States. Besides, it appears as an area of interest related to political regimes and their ideologies, which make policy and rules encounter towards immigrants, occasionally drift depending on the leader in charge in that particular given time or political reign.
Considering the immigration reform debate on one side, we have some who tend to look at the United States as a State which was entirely made by immigrant's hard work of labor; from around the world. However, some of the immigrants have a complimentary view, such as the United States should be on the front to welcome them; because some are looking for employment opportunities, better life, and freedom. It happens that the individuals who tend to have this view favor the issue of policy reforms such as the United States to make more legal ways to enter the country, easy acquittance of the citizenship, and also included for all the immigrant groups present all time. (Watts, 2018)
On the other hand, the immigration reform debate shares frustration over the rising rate of illegal entry into the U.S., mostly from the lower part, the southern border between the United States and Mexico. The high rate of movement across the two boundaries is due to illegal activities such as human trafficking, drug violence, and gang activities, which are on escalating in numbers at an alarming rate in the parts of Latin America. It has led to many large groups of immigrants to flee and seek refuge in the United States. As the immigrants try to find their way into the States, some U.S. citizens who do not support the idea have called for stricter borders, improving enforcement, and restrictive immigration rules, all targeted at reducing the rate of illegal immigration into the United States. (Watts, 2018)
Social contract ethicist argues that when the law varnishes, the oppressive government begins. It says that individuals stay together in society following an agreement that creates political and moral guidelines. For immigration reform, social contract ethicists will support that the government should deal with it according to the rules and regulations. They will keep the policy of the U.S government about immigration reforms. Hence, there will be no conflicts among the Americans about immigration reforms since the issue will be handled according to the law, the one which everyone in America follows. There will be no unfair decision-making. (Rachels & Rachels, 2019)
Professional code of ethics are guidelines which control how professional carry out activities. In the case of immigration reforms, there is the U.S government code of ethics, which governs how the government treats the immigrants. Some of the codes of ethics are; allowing loyalty to the uppermost moral values and country above faithfulness to the public, party, or Government sector. Also, maintain the laws, constitution, and regulations of the U.S. It is all about governments and never classifies unfairly by giving unique treatments to anyone, whether for remuneration or not. By the use of the professional code of ethics, everyone is treated fairly. (Topor, 2018)
In the topic in which I choose immigration reforms, there is a conflict between the professional and the familial duties. The debate on immigration reforms can affect the people in government, whereby they would be stressed on the right course of action about the immigration reforms (whether they should or should not allow it). Once someone is stressed, he/she would not be able to perform his/her family duties appropriately, such as parenting responsibilities, among others
Conclusion
Lately, the immigration reforms debate revolves around the civil, constitutional rights of immigrants, their part, and the duty of the United States government in ushering in refugees. It is because these primacies diverge from the view which says that few restrictive immigration rules and policies pose a security and economic risk to the United States citizens. Even though it would be difficult to justify that each person will eventually do something out of self-interest, perhaps it's true that we can pretend acting to promote primarily our interests. The beginning of social contract and egoism theory suggests that people are rational and self-interested.
References
Rachels, J., & Rachels, S. (2019). The Elements of Moral Philosophy. New York, McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Topor, F. (2018). Ethical standards and practice in international relations. IGI Global.
Watts, J. R. (2018). Immigration policy and the challenge of globalization: Unions and employers in an unlikely alliance. Cornell University Press.