How
Immigration Policies Violate Human Rights
There are many ways that immigration policies violate the
human rights that immigrants are entitled to. The main reason behind the
injustices on human rights is that people of countries that often choose to
immigrate have the right to leave, but not the right to enter another country.
This policy often leaves people who want to leave their birth place to obtain a
better life with no other choice but to enter illegally into a wealthier
country. There are many people that voluntarily immigrate but then there are
also people who are forced to immigrate. These people include refugees and victims
of human trafficking.
The reasons behind forced migration is that people often
want to move out due to dire economic situations that are caused by political
decisions. Refugees escape their native lands to find better economic opportunities,
and often to escape from dangerous situations. A recent example of this is seen
in the article titled, Border Crisis:
Refugees Leave Everything Behind to Flee ISIS, written by James Novogrod
for NBCNews that explains how people are leaving Turkey due to their life being
at risk due to ISIS killing people who don’t agree with their beliefs. To deny
people entry into a country is when human rights are violated, due to putting
people at risk of not surviving by not letting them obtain better
opportunities. These polices not only effect individuals, it effects whole
families because people leave their lives behind to come to a wealthier nation
to able to provide a more preferable living situation for their families.
Another
way that human rights are violated is that people have no other choice but to
enter illegally, which is usually dangerous and leads to the deaths of hundreds
of people each year. According to Carolina Moreno’s article for the Huffington
Post titled, Border Death More Common as
Illegal Immigration Declines, people entering illegally to the United
Stated caused 368 deaths. That’s a surprising number, due to the fact that it
was just as large as the numbers that were recorded when there was higher
number of people attempting to enter.
There are many Human rights doctrines that give rights to
immigrants such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICPRMW).
These doctrines give many rights to immigrants that include the obvious human
rights that people are entitled to, but unfortunately they do not include the
right to enter another country. This means that these rights are available to
immigrants, but most of them will never have a chance to exercise these right
due to them not being able to enter a host country.
Many people believe that these policies limiting the
entrance into countries are set into place to make them a safer place, but this
is often not the case. The real reason that the policies are created is to
protect the birthright privileges of citizens of these wealthier nations. Ironically,
the human rights doctrines has a list of countries immigrants are allowed to
travel to, none which are wealthy countries, but people who live in wealthy
countries are free to travel any place they want with no issue. This is one of
the largest examples of the immigration policies violating human rights because
it allows people of wealthier nations to travel, while they trap people of poor
foreign countries to live in poverty with no chance at bettering their life.
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