Immigration in the U.S. and the E.U

 The United States and The European Union both have had issues with immigration for decades. The United States major has always been a country that migrants want to come too. "The American dream" as some would say is what people strive to have who are foreign to the United States. The U.S. has fluctuated with the increase and decrease of immigration since 1970 when there was barely fourteen million immigrants that made up the U.S. Then 1890 hits an escalate in numbers, there was about fifteen percent of immigrants that took up the U.S. population. Now as of today immigrants take up fourteen percent of America. The issue is not that everyone wants to come and live in the U.S. it is that most of them are doing it illegally, which has been a controversy for years. This number of undocumented immigrants has only increased over the years which is one of the U.S. biggest concern because of the effect it has on the economy and the safety of every day U.S. citizens.

The E.U has also had major issues with migration but not all in the same way as the U.S. has. Their biggest issue with immigration is the aging workforce. The reasoning behind that is because "people migrate FROM their countries, not TO their countries." This has caused an issue because there is a lack of younger skilled people to replace the people that will soon be retiring. The similarity in this issue to the U.S. is that although people are moving out then in, there is still increase of immigrants moving to the E.U. and this all has caused the citizens form xenophobia all throughout Europe. 

Sources:

2021. Immigration and Asylum: Some Concerns for Europe. EU learning.immigration-and-asylum-some-concerns-for-europe

Elliot. L. (2021). The U.S. Immigration Debate. Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-immigration-debate-0