1. Go Back Where You Came From!
project = independent design
Immigration...
Making Connections

2. This is a small group assignment. At the completion of this lesson,
each group will respond to the
following questions...
2-3 people in a group.

3. For what reasons do people leave their country of origin?

4. What reasons motivate people to migrate to the United States?

5. Identify different challenges one might experience coming to the United States as a child, teenager or young adult.

6. built on the backs of adoptive citizens,
Why does a nation,
built on the backs of adoptive citizens,
have a profound resentment of new immigrants?

7. What would you do if forced to leave your home but did not have proper documentation?

8. Should new immigrants who come to the United States be required to learn English?

9. Are illegal immigrants taking
American jobs?

10. Elena was an 11 year old when gang member in her home country, Honduras, told her to be an his girlfirend.
“I had to say yes,” Elena, now 14 explained. “If I said no, they would have killed my entire family. Elena knew the risks because one of her friends, Jenisis, was also asked to be a gang member’s girlfriend and declined. Elena happened to see the aftermath, as Jenisis staggered naked and bleeding away from gang members. “She had been raped and shot in the stomach.”

11. As for Elena, she said her duties as a gang member’s girlfirend entailed working as a drug courier and a lookout, as well as intimacies that she didn’t want to discuss.
After years of such brutality, Elena and her family finally fled to safety in the US this year when the gang threatened to kill them so as to seize their home.

12. Yet they aren’t safe, in part because a current immigration policy of the U.S. and Mexican govt. returns vast numbers of refugees to the countries from which they fled.
In the past five years, the US & Mexico have returned 800,000 to Central America including 40,000 children.

13. We (Americans) help pay for Mexico to intercept these people along the southern border and send them, (even children like Elena - back home), where they may well be raped or killed.

14. Many Americans worry about the thought of refugees (these people are refugees since they seek refuge) entering our country.

15. And this issue has become a major taking point in this presidential election.

16. Trump clip (1:43)

20. So as we view immigration in this assignment, I will juxtapose the immigrants of today to the immigrants of Duffy’s Cut by showing a clip from the documentary and having them read a short document from the Duffy’s Cut reading material.
Today, we don’t refer to those who fear or hate immigrants as Nativists...we have another word...xenophobia.

21. (1:03)

22. Many Americans believed the Irish were more closely related to apes than to other Europeans.
In this cartoon, An ape-like Irish man, drunk, sits on a powder keg, presumably threatening the entire country.
Source:Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

23. Here we see the Irish depicted as a Frankensteinian monster in a cartoon that ran in Punch in Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992.

24. Thomas Nast's belittling sketch of an ape-like Irish-American Catholic was a typical stereotype used by Nast and other Harper's Weekly cartoonists over the years.
The newspaper was vehemently opposed to what it believed was the increasing political and social influence of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. At the bottom it says “The Ignorant Vote.” Next slide...Gangs of New York (2:37)
Cartoonist:  Thomas Nast
Source:  Harper's Weekly
Date:   December 9, 1876, p. 985

25. (2:37)