Crossing the border is illegal, but as a push factor, immigrants are often escaping persecutions and violence within their home countries. Refugees and asylumees are individuals who are unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin because of persecution or well-founded fear of persecution. The United States offers humanitarian protection to immigrants coming in as refugees through two channels: refugee resettlement and asylum. Thought the influx of the immigrant population, under most circumstances, deals greatly with the push factors created for refugees, allowing a path to citizenship will also influence the large flow of immigrants into the country.