1. Immigration Review
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2. What is America?
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3. What does America Represent?
• Positive • Negative
• freedom/liberty • oppression
• economic opportunity • racism
• new start • int’l domination
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4. Motives
• push and pull factors
• think about your family’s motives
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5. Assimilation
• Factors that help: • Obstacles:
• education/language • racism
• employment • xenophobia (fear)
• patriotism • religion
• enclaves* • enclaves*
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6. Analogies
Melting Pot Salad Bowl
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7. Pros and Cons of Illegal Migrants
• PRO • CON
• take hard jobs • take lower skilled jobs
• can lower prices • crime
• many pay taxes • use public resources
• U.S. tradition • too many?
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