The Corruption In The Immigration Department

Corruption in Immigration Departments
Introduction
The topic of this paper is a corruption in immigration departments. This is a very important and hot topic of these days, since the immigration laws have been being changed and it is way harder to get into the country and live here for illegal immigrants. This fact opens a big space for corruption of immigration officers and opening new ways for immigrants to get into the country hidden behind the “supervision” of corrupted immigration officers. With the increasing costs of border protection and application of immigration laws, this is a big problem, since the effectiveness of the costly restrictions and new immigration law would be diminished and all the money spent to protect (especially
The definition of corruption, according to Dictionary.com, is a “dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery or action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so.” There are several forms, scales, and types of corruption. The three major corruption scales are petty, grand, and systemic. The petty scale of corruption is a smaller scale corruption and often occurs especially in cases when a public officers or servants feel underpaid and they take small improper gifts, etc. in exchange for their favor. The next is “grand” corruption, which is a bit higher on the corruption size scale, since this type of corruption occurs “at the highest levels of government in a way that requires significant subversion of the political, legal and economic systems. Such corruption is commonly found in countries with authoritarian or dictatorial governments and in those without adequate policing of corruption by anti-corruption agencies” (CIS, 2009). The third type of corruption size-wise is a systemic corruption, which is “primarily due to the weaknesses of an organization or process” (Alcazar, Andrade, 2001). Factors encouraging the systemic corruption include “conflicting incentives, discretionary powers; monopolistic powers; lack of transparency; low pay; and a culture of impunity” (Alcazar, Andrade, 2001). If we
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