SOCL230 test 3 Final Flashcards
Immigration Act of 1965
- Completely eliminated a nation-based quota system
- Established preference
- Family connection
- Special Skills
- Political refugees - Set maximum quota (170,000/yr, 20,000/nation)
IRCA of 1986
- Employers must verify the status of new employees, and if they neglect to do so, they will be fined
- Amnesty program
- Anyone who can prove that they lived in the U.S, since January 1, 1982, or before can obtain a green card
- Agribusiness Guest Worker Program
- Immigrant guest workers can enter the U.S. on a temporary basis
Immigration Act of 1990
- A revision of an annual cap and a preference system established by the 1965 Act
1. Increased annual maximum to 700,000
2. Gave preference to diversity immigration- Recently underrepresented nations would receive preference
- Kennedy: “Ireland as one of those nations”
- 1851-60: 914,119
- 1921-30: 220, 564
- 1985 (1 year): 1397 (Mexicans in 1985: 61,077)
- Created a new category of immigrant investors
- If you invest $1mil. In the U.S., you can obtain a green card
Immigration Act of 1996
- One cannot appeal the deportation decision
- Deportation can be enforced retroactively
- One will be incarcerated while waiting for deportation
- A judge’s discretion to waive deportation is reduced
- It mandated deportation of immigrants convinced of drug offence
Segmented Assimilation
One of the Four Patterns of Immigrant Settlement
A particular immigrant group tends to assimilate into a specific sector of American society (e.g. immigrants from India into a high tech. sector in Silicon Valley)
DACA
- Established on June 15, 2012, by President Obama
- The policy allowed certain undocumented immigrants to escape deportation and obtain renewable work permits for a period of two years.
- To apply, immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012, must have come to the U.S. before the age of 16, and must have lived in the U.S. since 2007 (and must pay $495 fee.)
- 800,000 immigrants received DACA status.
- President Trump announced the termination of DACA on 9/5/17.
- Due to litigations and court injunctions, DACA remained in effect. And on June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the reason provided for the termination was arbitrary and capricious, thus the continuation of DACA was granted.
- On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the executive order reinstating DACA. (DACA was never terminated despite President Trump’s order, but President Biden’s executive order officially places DACA as the federal policy and reverse the course set by President Trump.)
Transitional bilingual education Immersion
Students learn subjects in their native languages, while they study English (as a second language)
Submersion Maintenance bilingual education
Lau v. Nichols (1974)
Submersion (putting ELL students in regular classrooms without proper accommodation) is unconstitutional.
Horne v. Flores (2009)
This decision affirmed “immersion” as an effective strategy, thus transitional or maintenance types were not to be used.
Proposition 227
- 1998 proposition 227 (California)
- 61% voted for it
- All children in California will be taught only in English
- ELL students will be placed in one-year immersion programs
Consonant acculturation
Assimilation into American culture occurs at the same speed and extent across generations.
Dissonant acculturation
After immigration, children’s assimilation into American culture is much faster and far-reaching than parents.
Immigrant Optimism
“America is a land of opportunity.”
Immigrant Pessimism
“America is a land of racial discrimination.”
Understand the general characteristics/profiles of Latinx Americans, as lectured in class.
- 62.1 million (18.7% of the US population) in 2020
- Mexican (63%), Puerto Rican (9.2%), Cuban (3.5%), Salvadoran (3.3%), Dominican (2.8%)
- CA (15 million), TX (10.4 million), FL (4.8 million), NY (3.5 million)
- ⅓ are under 18: therefore, as the young generation reaches the voting age, their political influence will increase
- BA or higher: Cuban 25%, Puerto Rican 16%, Dominican 15%, Mexican 11%
Understand four patterns of immigrant settlement.
Concentration, Diffusion, Uneven Settlement, Segmented Assimilation
Which six states are absorbing 70% of newly arriving immigrants today?
CA, NY, TX, FL, NJ, IL
What law did the city of Hazleton pass in 2006? What did the federal appeals court decide about this Hazleton law on September 9, 2010?
1) revokes the licenses of business that employed undocumented immigrants and 2) fines the landlords who rent to undocumented immigrants
In 2010, the Federal Court of Appeals struck down the Hazleton ordinance, because it infringed on the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration.
What was happening in Farmingville in the late-1990s and the early-2000s? What was the specific issue?
Many Hispanic immigrants moved to Farmingville, New York, due to job opportunities on various locations in Long Island.
Day laborer hiring site.
In response to many Hispanic men standing at the corner of streets waiting for a business owner who hires for a short period of time, the local authority considered to establish the day laborer hiring site. After the lengthy process that divided the community, the motion was defeated.
What characterizes Arizona’s immigration bill signed into law in April 2010?
- It makes it a crime under state law to be in the country without proper documents
- It requires immigrants to have proof of their immigration status
- It requires police officers to make “reasonable” attempt to determine the immigration status of a person
What characterizes Alabama’s immigration bill in June 2011?
- It had all the above Arizona bill and went beyond
- It requires public schools to determine the immigration status of all students
- It requires public schools to publish the number of undocumented immigrant children who are enrolled, and the costs (tax) associated with their education
- It also forbids any transaction between those without documents and any division of the state
Why did anti-immigration conflicts (including the passage of laws) at local and state levels occur in the 2000s and early 2010s? What was the federal government doing during this period?
Targeting El Paso: Why are so many Central Americans coming to the U.S. as asylum seekers?
the U.S. could “close down” its their last chance being able so go now
Persistent economic and political challenges in Central America have been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and political upheaval, and increasingly extreme weather
Targeting El Paso: What were the effects (as presented in this video) of national political rhetoric?
Targeting El Paso: What was the purpose of separating immigrant children from parents?
criminal charges against parents caught crossing the border triggers a legal situation that necessitates separating children, while the use of civil immigration detention and removal does not require this to occur. When adults are detained and prosecuted in the criminal justice system for immigration offenses, their children cannot, by law, be housed with them in criminal jails, so the family unit is separated.
Targeting El Paso: What are the conditions of an immigrant detention center?
“serious deficiencies such as significant understaffing, failure to provide sufficient mental health observation, and inadequate monitoring of detainees with criminal histories.”