University of Central Florida Immigrants in the US Position Paper

read this articles about immigration :

Camarota article: https://cis.org/Oped/Case-Against-Immigration

Kristof article: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-immigration-enriches-you-and-m.html

beck:

1 ) In the video , Beck claims that the United States has taken in an average of 1 million legal immigrants since 1990. Verify this claim with this website (See Table 1): https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2015 (Links to an external site.)

He also claims that we take immigrants from “desperately poor countries/regions”. Verify his claim here: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2015/table3 (Links to an external site.)

And here (Choose the year 2015 and click on Table 3): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics.html (Links to an external site.)

Explore his claims about the World Bank’s data on poverty here: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty (Links to an external site.)

2) Then, answer these two questions: Are his claims true? Why are these reliable websites?

3) Read the following NYT article. How does Beck respond to critics who call his ideas xenophobic? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/us/politics/roy-h-beck-quietly-leads-a-grass-roots-army.html (Links to an external site.)

4) How do you think Beck would respond to this article? Does this article support or refute his ideas? Why? https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/06/559472-sharp-increase-money-migrants-send-home-lifts-millions-out-poverty-un-report#.WULHkFXyuUm

Harrop Article: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/can-we-have-a-sensible-immigration-policy/

Mark : https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-green-card-visa-legal-immigration-us-news-trump-2017-4

Duarte Geraidino video :https://www.ted.com/talks/duarte_geraldino_what_we… (Links to an external site.)

Farm Workers caught video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZXh1rVe1vA

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