Immigration Flashcards
How do you define a legal immigrant?
Those who come to the US with documentation or come to the US within the number of days permitted on their visa
How do you define an illegal immigrant?
Those who come to the US with no documentation or come to the US with a number of days permitted on their visa but overstay the number of days
What are the arguments for immigration?
Cheap labour, ‘land of the free’ and mot wanting to damage the American culture and economy
What are some arguments against immigration?
‘Stealing’ jobs, competition in schools and housing, and the lack of the English language in schools, business or media
Including the arguments for and against which other two points will be discussed in the essay?
Arizona’s immigration crackdown, Proposition 187 and what the government has done to help Hispanics in particular
What is the quote stated by the Modern Studies: International Issues textbook involving the number of immigrants in the US and the number continuing to enter?
‘The problem is that 40 million people in the USA are immigrants, with illegal immigrants accounting for around 12 million. In addition, around 1.5 million more immigrants enter the country each year, mainly through the 2000-mile-long Mexican border’
Who are against the border controls being increased and why?
Employers and because they want the cheap labour that immigrants are willing to do, they will work for low wages which many Americans would refuse to work for
With the immigrants working for low wages what will this do to the US?
This will the US to stay as a competitive economy
However how do some Americans feel with immigrants working for low wages?
Some Americans feel that they will have to work for the low wages as employers may expect them too otherwise they may not get the job
Some other Americans say that the immigrants are ‘stealing’ jobs which unemployed American citizens could do. What is the percentage for and against this statement?
In the ‘New York Times’ a source showed that 59% of Americans say that immigrants generally take jobs whilst 30% of Americans say that they take jobs away from other Americans
What is the temporary ‘Guest Worker Program?’
It is a program which would allow employers to legally hire the workers they need. American citizens would be given priority for the positions available then only if they weren’t filled that they would be available to immigrants
Since America is ‘land of the free’, immigrants are something welcome into states as they are from countries such as Korea, why are they trying to escape from their country?
They are trying to escape because of persecution, they make be persecuted because of their sex, race or belief
The US government maintains a long-established humanitarian program that allows a limits number of refugees who can’t return to their country safely. On the website, http://www.rescue.org/refugees what did it state relating to this?
‘The IRC (International Refugee Committee) annually has as many as 10,000 refugees resettle in the United States’
If two illegal immigrants have a child in America the child is welcome to stay but not the parents. What happens to the child?
The child will be given to a guardian who is chosen by the parents, the chosen guardian can also reject this offer and also the parents can take their cha back to their original country with them
What do states such as California do for immigrant’s children?
They welcome them into housing and education to help them with a chance to have a decent life and even to achieve what is seen as the ‘American Dream’
