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Global Migration

Continuing US and European Experiences

European Problem

Brexit

Terrorism

US-Mexican Border Problem

Volume and accompanying complexity of the problem

High number of irregular immigrants

Criminal immigrants

Economic immigrants

Nature of the border

World's only direct land border between the developed and developing worlds.

Very long and difficult frontier to "seal"

Human Population Movement

The Human Tragedy Factor

Political

Violence

Demographic

Aging populations to developed world

Developing to developed world

Immigration Motivations and Functions

Pull factors

Positive attributes to attract immigrants to different destinations

Job seeking

Push factors

Motives to leave a political jurisdiction

Promise of materially better life

Avoid conflict or discrimination

Improve one's living conditions by relocation

Forms of movement

Immigration

Irregular immigrants

Illegal, undocumented, unauthorized

“those who enter a country without proper authorization or who have violated the terms of stay of the authorization they hold, including by overstaying.”

Legal immigrants

Asylum seekers

Refugees