1. America’s Immigration Policy

2. LEQ: Old or new what are the reasons for and opinions on immigration into the United States?
Drill:
Why might people from around the world want to immigrate to the United States?

3. Why Immigrate? Push Factors Pull Factors Unemployment Poverty War
Political/Religious Persecution
Environmental Problems
Jobs
Lure of Freedom; new form of government
Attractive Environment; land
Family

4. America’s Melting Pot
European exploration 15th – 18th century = Western Europeans to the Americas (2 million)
Old Immigrants = mostly Irish and German arrive between (7.5 million +)
New Immigrants = mostly from southern and eastern Europe and Asia arrive between (20 million +)
Current Immigrants = mostly from Latin America and Asia (38.5 million = legal; 11 million + illegal)

5. Opposition and Support
Economic Growth = new businesses, create and fill jobs; increased tax revenues; more consumers
Technological advances = engineers, scientists, innovators
Costly Deportation and Border Defenses
Reduction in drug cartels and violence at border
Reunification
Economic Costs = job competition, education, and social services
Negative Environmental Impact = over population; scarce resources
Increased Crime Rates
Protection against infectious diseases
Distortion of National Identity

6. LEQ: How can one become a legal immigrant to the United States
LEQ: How can one become a legal immigrant to the United States? Why has immigration reform failed?
Drill:
Why do you think our leaders have not been able to reach agreeable terms regarding immigration reform?

7. Identifying the Terms:
Emigrant – one who leaves their native country to live in another
Immigrant – one who left their native country and now lives in yours
Migrant – one who travels within their country; one who travels often
Sponsor -  to bring to the United States or "petition for"

8. Green Card vs. Visas Green Card Visas
Grants emigrants the right to apply for entry (done before get to U.S.)
Two types: nonimmigrant visa for temporary stay OR immigrant visa for temporary stay
Has to be renewed
(some people wait as long as 20 years to get)
Allow an immigrant to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely
Is evidence of lawful permanent residence
Has to be renewed every 10 years
(some people wait up to 10 years to get)

9. Who Gets a Visa?
Family-Based Visa: family member of a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident (LPRs)
Employment Based: Temporary or Permanent
Refugees and Asylees: admitted based on a “well-founded fear of persecution” or already in U.S. and apply for asylum
*Per Country Ceilings: no group of permanent immigrants from a single country can exceed 7% of total immigrants admitted*

10. The Waiting List
According to 2013 data 4.4 million emigrants are on the waiting list to receive Visas
4.3. million of this total are waiting on family sponsored visas
113,059 of this total are waiting for employment based visas
According to 2013 data 11 million or more are currently living in the United States as illegal immigrants

11. Proposed Immigration Reforms
DREAM Act: first introduced in 2001 by two U.S. Senators (Dem. & Rep.)
President Obama’s 2013 Plan for Immigration Reform
President Obama’s 2014 Executive Action on Immigration Reform

12. LEQ: How can one become a legal immigrant to the United States
LEQ: How can one become a legal immigrant to the United States? Why has immigration reform failed?
Drill:
Get into your groups from yesterday.
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