Myth Buster
Myth or Fact? Immigrants don’t pay taxes
Myth! Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022.
Your mean teacher makes you take notes on paper. What do you write with?
A. A Pen
B. A Mechanical Pencil
C. A Regular Pencil
C. A Regular Pencil!
What type of restaurant outnumbered all Mcdonalds, Burger Kings, KFcs in 2015?
Chinese restaurants!
This child of immigrants has 16 Grammys, who are they?
Bruno Mars!
Myth or Fact? Immigrants take jobs from American citizens
Myth! Immigrants fill crucial labor shortages for U.S. companies.
What are you eating for lunch?
A. Hot Dog
B. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
C. Pizza
D. Hamburger
B. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich! ENJOY!
Immigration was a factor behind a decline in _______ in urban areas in the late 1990s to early 2000s?
Crime rates
What girl group is made up of 2 immigrants and 4 children of Immigrants and is responsible for multiple TikTok trends?
Katseye!
Myth or Fact? Immigrants accounted for 3/4 of growth in workers ages 25-52 between 2000 and 2022.
Fact!
You have to figure out who the first person to climb Mount Everest was. What do you do?
Go to your library (there's not much in it)! The Search Engine Technology was created by an immigrant.
A Canadian native and physical education teacher invented what in 1891?
Basketball!
What immigrant has hips that don't lie?
¡Shakira, Shakira!
Myth or Fact? Native-born people are more likely to start a business than immigrants.
Myth! Immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start a business in the United States than non-immigrants, and 18 percent of all small business owners in the United States are immigrants.
You NEED to tell your friend something important, how do you tell them?
A. Snap them
B. Text them
C. Carrier Pigeon them
D. Call them
C. Carrier Pigeon them! Good luck training them!
What type of music emerged in the early 20th century in the southern United States from African-American musicians, the descendants of forced migrants?
Country music!
What two popular movies were made by Canadian immigrant James Cameron?
Titanic and Avatar!
Myth or Fact? Bad Bunny is an immigrant.
Myth! He is from Puerto Rico, a territory of the US.
What is The United States of America?
NOTHING!
US immigrants Jawed Karim and Steve Chen are the founders of what?
Youtube!
The documentary, The Donut King, follows Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian immigrant who created what popular donut chain?
Christy’s Doughnuts