Immigration

= WEEK ONE: IMMIGRATION = Ms. Brown & Ms. D == = = = =

= = = Day One- Introduction = **7/6/10** [|Mexican shooting.doc]
 * Document mark up on Mexican Border Shooting: **

=Day Two- Effects of Immigration = **7/7/10

Immigration & Tenement Houses Review a. What is a tenement house?** A tenement house is a place designed for poor immigrants. When immigrants come to America with little money or means of making money, they often live in crowded, unsanitary tenement houses to survive. Huge amounts of immigrants are often forced into a small space and tenement houses do not come with stoves or ample places to sleep.

Huge influxes of immigrants lead to the question of where to put all of the immigrants. Tenement houses was an easy, cheap way to house all of the immigrants. It also allowed for all of the immigrants to be in one place. Tenements were usually populous in poor, immigrant neighborhoods, such as the Lower East Side of NYC.
 * b. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing?**

Life was hard for new immigrants in this time period. Because of their poor economic status, they were often forced to work long hours for low wages. Children would often have to stay home and work rather than get an education because the family needed the extra help to make ends meet. The small living space and unsanitary tenement houses made the inhabitants more vulnerable to diseases.
 * c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement houses?**

Because of the huge amounts of immigrants that were coming to America, job competition is a big issue for them. Also, there may be no space for adequate housing left for more immigrants to live in. This could lead to only a certain amount of immigrants being allowed access to Ellis Island as resident aliens. A cut off point could result in immigrants trying to gain entrance to America by illegal means.
 * d. What potential obstacles do you forsee for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900's?**

=Day Three- Immigration Today = **7/8/10**  Our border patrol policies in America are not effective along our southern border. Immigrants are illegally entering America through Mexico by their own means or by being transported or accompanied by experts on finding ways into America while avoiding border patrol officers. These immigrants bring violence, killing innocent people without fear of being deported or convicted. Our statistics on illegal immigrants are inadequate, but we have teams such as the Immigrant & Customs Enforcement working to catch smugglers before they bring more illegal immigrants to America. We need to fix our border patrol policies so that illegal immigrants can no longer get off the hook for being in America and commiting crimes while they are here.
 * Summary on FOX News border patrol articles & videos:**

[|Arizona Law.docx]
 * Arizona Law Response Notes:**

[|The Arizona Law]
 * Group Voice Thread on Arizona Law:**


 * 7/7/10 Wordle on Push Factors of immigration :[[image:Wordle_on_Push_Factors.png width="800" height="450"]] **


 * 7/8/10 Wordle on the shooting of a Mexican teenager: **