How Other Countries Handle Immigration
Countries struggle to find the best way to deal with immigrants knocking at their doors.
Eleven million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, but not everyone who leaves their native country for a better life aims to settle in America. Countries across the globe have had to decide who to let inside their borders.
As immigration reform comes to a head, we take a look at how other countries—those that have been recognized for having some of the most open, or the most restrictive, immigration policies—are dealing with their huddled masses.
To combat a shortage of skilled labor that has been stifling the country's economic growth since the 1970s, Canada has adopted one of the most open immigration policies in the world. As of 2010, the foreign-born population makes up 21.3 percent of the country's
