9/11s Effect on Immigration

For my assignement I plan on finding out how much the attack on 9/11 had to do with the immigration restrictions we have now. In doing so I plan on relating it to baseball if possible. I think my main argument would be should the government make the laws and restrictions different for athletes? Another argument could be has the event caused baseball to lose out on some very good foreign athletes? Also, has the event raised so much fear in government that they are afraid foriegn athletes will to become threats to the country.

I plan on finding out what exactly the restrictions are and find out the key determinig factors for those restrictions. After reading a few articles I came across a few that mentions 9/11 as one of the key factors. Like i said before I plan on arguing that the restrictions, due to the 9/11 event, have somewhat taking away a part of baseball history by not allowing as many players to immigrate over to play. I can expect a posing argument being that baseball is not as important as the safety of the country.

Im going about trying to get theses questions answered by reading different articles about 9/11 and immigration as a whole. I also plan to use public documents and different documents regarding the restrictions. I'm using these sources because they will have the most information and details since a fairly topic. For secondary sources I plan on using web-based articles because they are conviniant and usually contain a great deal of information.

According to CU immigration law expert looks at changes in U.S. actions since 9/11, the restrictions are made to make the country safer and protect our civil liberties. I don't think any of the research will be surprise. The main thing I'm looking forward to getting out of this assignment is how much has that one event effected so much of our society.