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The USA Immigration to the USA
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Reasons for emigrating to the USA?
The reasons can be divided into two main categories:
Push Factors – these are things that make them want to leave their own country.
Pull Factors – these are things that attract them to America.
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Push Factors
Dictatorship – no Dictatorship – no
freedom of speechfreedom of speech
Conflict / War Conflict / War PovertyPoverty
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Pull Factors
Rights & FreedomsRights & Freedoms
The Land of Opportunity The Land of Opportunity &&
the American Dream the American Dream
Economic SuccessEconomic Success
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Pattern of Immigration
• Between the year 2000 to 2007, over 10 million immigrants arrived in the US.
• Every year roughly a million new people arrive (700,000 legally, 300,000 illegally); more than in any other country in absolute numbers.
• The total immigrant population in the USA is estimated to be 37.9 million.
• About a quarter of this total is estimated to be illegal immigrants.
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The USA – a welcoming nation?
The Inscription on the Statue of Liberty
Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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Task 3
Arguments for Immigration
Arguments against Immigration
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The USA is a land of immigrants who came to America to work hard and enjoy the “American Dream”, like millions before them.
The Immigration Debate
Immigration places huge strain on welfare services in states like California, Texas and Florida where many immigrants settle.
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The Immigration Debate
“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners, Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in
this country?”
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Immigrants contribute to the economy because they take jobs that
lots of Americans will not take. Their
low wages keep prices low and they also pay
taxes.
May cause unemployment because immigrants are highly
concentrated in certain
jobs creating competition
for these jobs.
The Immigration Debate
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Many immigrants (especially APIs) set up their own
businesses, contributing
to the economy by creating jobs & paying tax e.g. Silicon Valley in
California.
Many new immigrants
are unskilled & cost the
country money in welfare
benefits e.g. Hispanics.
The Immigration Debate
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The Immigration Debate
• The immigration debate before September 11th centred mainly on economics and social issues.
• After the 9/11 the focus had become about security.
• The Credit Crunch coupled with the continued threat of terrorist attacks means the debate is about all these issues now.
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Question
• There are many things about the USA which attract immigrants.
• Describe, in details, two things about the USA which attract immigrants.
• (4 marks).