The deliberation was about different approaches on immigration. The group delivered an approach before allowing the audience to discuss about the ideas we had delivered. The audience seemed to have similar views each time but their approach continued to change as different ideas were delivered.

During the first approach, which was closed borders, the audience seemed opposed to the ideas. Each stated how they understood the concerns of safety, but they did not believe that safety should be the main factor for immigration. To further show what they believed, they expressed the benefits that immigrants bring to the United States. For example, immigrants increase the overall economy because immigrants tend to take more manufacturing jobs for lower wages, allowing companies to increase in size. One popular counterargument is that the immigrants would take jobs away from American workers. However, the group responded by saying that there are many educated immigrants who would begin creating more businesses and jobs, ultimately creating more jobs. The next argument we used was how America focuses on other countries so much that they are helping other countries before themselves in aspects such as trade. They told us that trade actually benefits America as we have a steady supply of resources that we would not necessarily have otherwise. The other approaches brought out a different aspect of the issue.

During the second approach, which was open borders, the overall moral of letting refugees in was discussed. The situation of how the refugees were running away from terrorist groups that made their old houses unsafe living environments. As a result, rejecting them and sending them back would only result in putting them in danger. As a nation built from immigrants, that was not something the audience would not feel comfortable with. So, there are ethical and moral reasons for their decisions.

The moderate border was one last discussion to allow the audience to discuss a moderate approach, expecting them to have similar view that they had in the last two discussions, but they did not. Rather, they expressed how it may be beneficial to have a moderate immigration system, but the immigration process would need to be fixed first. They expressed how it was inefficient to have everything by paper still and how people currently find it too much of a hassle to try to become a citizen. Instead, most simply get a green card or visa. This allows them to reside in the United States without the paperwork of becoming a citizen. Each of these discussions brought to light a new issues with immigration and it will not go away anytime soon.