Transition From Legal Alien to Permanent Resident

Abstract

The debate around illegal immigration in America could benefit from a comparative analysis with Europe and I believe that Europe has a lot to learn from America. I do not know any (European) country in which hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and their supporters would troop out to demonstrate against restrictive immigration legislation and yet not a single person was arrested, detained or deported. American immigration policy is far from perfect but the rest of the world has a lot to learn from the US in this respect. In this essay, I will compare Germany with the US and show how much better the US policy is in comparison.