a policy brief on one immigration policy

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SOCW 6351 SOCIAL POLICY WELFARE AND CHANGE

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A policy brief is a short paper that examines a policy for its strengths and weaknesses. For this assignment, you are required to identify and analyze a social welfare policy/law that is related to a contemporary social problem of your choice.

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Policy Brief SOWK 202-Social Welfare Policy Spring 2023 A policy brief is a short paper that examines a policy for its strengths and weaknesses. For this assignment, you are required to identify and analyze a social welfare policy/law that is related to a contemporary social problem of your choice. This brief should be 7 double-spaced pages long and should be typed in Times New Roman 12pt font. The page margins must be one inch all around. The brief also should have a title and reference page. The page requirement does not include the title and reference pages. Students should rely on varied sources to support their analysis. The following outline: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. An introduction should include a succinct purpose statement, a history of the policy (if applicable), and a description of the policy’s primary goals and provisions. The social problem that necessitated the policy and the values and ethics that inform the policy. A discussion of the political and economic realities that shaped the policy’s development. An outline of the best practices and strategies for advocacy and lobbying aspects of this policy. A critique and evaluation of the policy with a discussion of alternative policy recommendations; and a conclusion of no more than a paragraph To provide greater specificity about the manner through which your policy brief will be evaluated, it is important to know that four criteria will be primarily employed: 1) the degree to which you correctly address and respond to the content of the outline above; 2) organization of thought, 3) quality of analysis, and 4) correct use of grammar, punctuation, and the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style. First, the degree to which you correctly address and respond to the content of the outline is selfevident. Basically, you need to follow the policy brief outline above and include appropriate information for each section of the outline. Second, organization of thought deals with how well ideas are communicated and structured so that balance and clear delivery of the paper’s ideas can be achieved. Additional dimensions of organization of thought are as follows: a) the degree to which the student examines and achieves what is delineated in the introduction’s purpose statement; b) the extent to which the paper is bifurcated into subsections that reflect the content in the assignment’s outline; c) the degree to which content is appropriate for the heading or subheading under which it falls; d) the degree to which the paper’s ideas are logically sequenced, that one idea flows rationally and understandably into the next; and e) whether or not the policy brief includes an introduction, with an explicit purpose statement, and a conclusion. Third, quality of analysis implies how well the student thinks through the ideas of the paper and the degree to which the ideas are thought-provoking and creative. The quality of “thinking through” ideas of a paper involves how well the student breaks down the ideas of a paper into components without losing the overarching threads or themes of the paper. Lastly, quality of analysis also implies how well the student applies critical thinking to her or his topic. Lastly, the correct use of grammar, punctuation and the APA style is fairly self-explanatory. It basically means that the policy brief and other written assignments should reflect the highest grammatical quality of the Standard English language. For the policy brief, this also means that students should ensure that they appropriately employ and integrate the guidelines of the APA citation manual, and it implies that students should include a sufficient number of citations to substantiate the ideas in their papers. Should you need assistance in developing stronger writing skills, you can contact the Bowie State University Writing Center, and they will connect you with a tutor. The Writing Center’s telephone number is 301860-3720. It is critical that you secure strong writing skills. Two resources that can assist you in this area are as follows: The American Psychological Association’s website on the basics of the APA citation style. http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx Szuchman, L.T. & Thomlison, B. (2010). Writing with style: APA style for social work (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing.
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The Impact and Future of U.S. Immigration Policy under the Immigration and Nationality
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The Impact and Future of U.S. Immigration Policy under the Immigration and Nationality Act
Introduction
The INA, also known as the Immigration and Nationality Act, was adopted in 1952 as the
basis of immigration policy in the United States. The policy report aims to provide an extensive
analysis of the INA by putting forth its historical development, explaining its primary purposes,
and dissecting its related provisions. The stakeholders can, therefore, transform the immigration
policy into an elaborate landscape by first learning the effects of the INA in contemporary
society. Significantly, the INA came into effect in the context of the waning forces of World War
II and the raging Cold War, representing a crucial milestone in the history of American
immigration policy. It took out a harmony of existing immigration laws, substituting it with a
fresh and complete structure. To a certain extent, the INA was intended to minimize the chance
of immigration and to control the naturalization process (Donato & Amuedo-Dorantes, 2020). It
also determined the rights of citizenship and worked out the criteria for American citizenship. In
order to properly function, the United States immigration system must tackle a host of aspects,
and the INA must take this into account. The main elements are determining visa categories for
different categories of immigrants and non-immigrants, determining the method of deportation
for residents violating immigration laws, and selecting assessment criteria, including granting
refugee and asylum status to those escaping persecution or violence. The INA has voiced the
same sentiments that have been the values and priorities of each occupant of the White House
and Congress. It has tried to find a balance between national security issues and those of a
humanitarian nature, economic concerns with moral aspects, and domestic ones with the ones
related to the global environment. Therefore, the INA is undoubtedly the nexus of the U.S.

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immigration policy, guiding the nation's future and permeating the lives of millions of
immigrants aspiring to become Americans.
The Social Problem and Values/Ethics
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952 was motivated by many social
challenges that were brought to the country during this political period. In those days, when the
government had to deal with labor shortage on the whole, its most crucial industries enjoyed the
benefit of the encouragement. Moreover, tighter national security concerns after World War II
and the beginning of the Cold War insisted on the necessity of implementing a relatively
comprehensive and coherent immigration policy. In addition, the INA was also spurred by this
rise in humanitarian crises, which attracted millions of refugees to seek protection from
persecution, violence, and instability (Ryo & Peacock, 2020). Within the INA, th...