Week 7 Discussion

Select a topic from the list below. In your post, analyze the ethical and moral issues from a public policy perspective for the topic you selected. (Note: Make sure to include the topic in your post):

• Often, it is the case that the best interests of a society are served when citizens remain and apply their energies and creative abilities where they were born and raised. Support or critique the public policy that seeks to fight root causes of migration in order to enable people to stay where they were born and raised.
• Support or refute the broadly recognized principles of state sovereignty and noninterference, which imply that states are free to exclude all immigrants or to freely select to admit some and exclude others.
• Compare morally legitimate and morally impermissible criteria for governmental immigration exclusion or selection policies.
• The Cato Institute (Nowrasteh, 2018) published The 14 Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why Theyre Wrong. Read and critique the article based on the course resources:
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• Explain why nations either have an obligation to naturalize all permanent residents or may refuse some. Justify any morally legitimate criteria of exclusion.

Reference:

• Nowrasteh, A. (2018, May 2). The 14 most common arguments against immigration and why theyre wrong. Cato at Liberty . https://www.cato.org/blog/14-most-common-arguments-against-immigration-why-theyre-wrong?utm_source=social&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cato%20Social%20Share

Support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources.

• Libertarianism.org. (2016, February 16).
• [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXqbJn1ss8
• Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 16 minutes.
• Science4Peace. (2017, February 6).
• 11, 2017 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsXVz_rumNM
• Asfari, A., & Askar, A. (2020).
• . Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40(2), 217234. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2020.1781467
• Heckman, D. (2019).
• . Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 31, 6580.
• Ip, K. K. W. (2020).
• . Political Studies, 68(1), 128145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719833885
• Oliphant, J., Kiley, J., Van Green, T., Gracia, S., & Copeland, J. (2025, June 17).
• . Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/17/americans-have-mixed-to-negative-views-of-trump-administration-immigration-actions/
• Trump, D. (2025, January 20).
• . The White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/