Abstract:
The issues of undocumented immigrants and immigration and border policy in
the U.S. – Mexico border is always a concerning topic for many people, especially
people in the United States. The people of the United States, especially the border
region community, feel the sense of fear of overcrowding the city or even the fear of
losing job opportunities, and the influx of undocumented immigrants is surging. This
thesis will deeply analyze the United States of America immigration policy and its
implementation in the U.S. – Mexico border under the Joe Biden administration (2021
- 2023). The research adopts document study as the data collection method by studying
documents from electronic books, journal articles, government official websites, and
electronic news to obtain data that relate to the United States foreign policy,
immigration policy, and its implementation in the U.S. - Mexico border under Biden’s
administration. This thesis will be focused on the analysis of three main immigration
policies that were adopted by Biden's administration, which are the reversal of Trump's
administration immigration policy, the reunification of family policy, and the parole
sponsorship program. Therefore, to understand Biden's administration's immigration
policy implementation to solve the undocumented immigrants issue in the U.S.-Mexico
border, this research will utilize Lee's push and pull factor of migration to analyze the
influx movement of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border, and
Bojang's classification of policy into Ends, Ways, Means to analyze the implementation
of Biden's administration's immigration policy in the U.S. - Mexico border and its role
in resolving the undocumented immigrant issues. Using the methods above, this
research found that the reasons for the rise in the influx of undocumented immigrants
are happened because of socio-economic disparities, natural disasters, and security
conditions that take place in the immigrant home country. This research also found that
the Biden administration's immigration policies played an important role in an attempt
to resolve the issue of undocumented immigrants by reuniting families that were
separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and opening a new legal pathway for immigrants
to come to the United States.
