The controversy are for the 2010-2011 NDT/CEDA debate season has been announced: Immigration Policy. The following resolutions are the potential topic for this year's debate tournaments:
1. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase the number of and/or substantially expand beneficiary eligibility for its visas for one or more of the following: employment-based immigrant visas, nonimmigrant temporary worker visas, family-based visas, human trafficking-based visas.
2. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase the number of and/or substantially expand beneficiary eligibility for its visas in one or more of the following classes: H-1, H-2, employment-based immigrant E.
3. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its legal protection of unauthorized migrants in the United States in one or more of the following areas: immigration detention, removal, non-asylum legal status, eligibility for federal public benefits.
4. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce its statutory restrictions on asylum claims in the United States.
5. Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce its restrictions in one or more of the following areas: non-asylum lawful permanent resident status or Medicaid for unauthorized migrants in the United States, statutory eligibility for gender-based asylum claims, the number of and/or beneficiary eligibility for H-1 or H-2 visas.
You can read a lot more about the controversy area and possible resolutions over at the CEDA Forums.