Immigration Review

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What is America?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What does America Represent?

• Positive

• freedom/liberty

• economic opportunity

• new start

• Negative

• oppression

• racism

• int’l domination

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Motives

• push and pull factors

• think about your family’s motives

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Assimilation• Factors that help:

• education/language

• employment

• patriotism

• enclaves*

• Obstacles:

• racism

• xenophobia (fear)

• religion

• enclaves*

Thursday, March 15, 2012

AnalogiesMelting Pot Salad Bowl

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Pros and Cons of Illegal Migrants

• PRO

• take hard jobs

• can lower prices

• many pay taxes

• U.S. tradition

• CON

• take lower skilled jobs

• crime

• use public resources

• too many?

Thursday, March 15, 2012