According to the Current Population Survey, there are approximately 86.4 million immigrants with U.S.-born children in 2017, accounting to 27 percent of the overall U.S. population. The United States has indeed been the top destination for international migrants as early as the 1960s, with one-fifth of the world’s migrants living there since 2017. In 2016, 49 percent of these immigrants, numbering at 21.2 million have become naturalized U.S. citizens. In the following, we will discuss the laws and the processes in immigration and citizenship.   Immigration and Nationality Act of 1