Week 5 - Journal (Reflections on Federal Immigration Policy)

For your journal entry, you will explore aspects of your personal experience and/or beliefs regarding significant public policies and what you have learned in your readings. As you reflect, please address the following questions:

1. What are the major current federal immigration policy issues?
2. In your informed opinion, why is immigration policy such a controversial issue?
3. Describe at least two opposing viewpoints on federal immigration policy
4. What, if anything, has changed or is changing, and how does it affect you personally?
5. What were your thoughts prior to reading this week’s reading assignments?
6. How has your perspective been either reinforced or changed now that you are more informed?