The US Supreme Court voted Monday to uphold one of the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law: the requirement that police check the status of someone suspected of being in the US illegally.
However, Arizona isn't the only place that has clamped down unfavorably on its immigrant population. Here, we take a look at five of the world's worst places to be a foreigner.
1. Latvia
According to the Migration Integration Policy Index (MIP), Latvia's immigration policies are the worst of 31 countries surveyed worldwide.
Why? Well, the Eastern European country barely follows the EU's standards for immigration, and "takes only the ‘minimum’ approach to fight discrimination" in terms of who it lets migrate, MIP reported. Latvia also does not give immigrants immediate rights to work. Because its immigration procedures are so loosely interpreted by officials, many immigrants remain "insecure" in their status, according to MIP...
Read more
GlobalPost: The world's 5 worst immigration policies
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
