U.S. Immigration
The state with the highest population of immigrants
What is California?
A U.S. law passed in 1882 that banned the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years and prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The river acting as a natural border between Texas + Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
The country with most active student visas in the U.S.
What is India?
The first permanent immigration inspection station in the U.S., opened in 1892 in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
The most active U.S. border crossing
What is the San Ysidro Port (San Diego/Tijuana)?
The court case coining one Native American territory as a "domestic dependent nation."
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
The official name for Taiwan
What is the Republic of China?
What is DACA?
The term for people who flee their home country due to persecution and seek protection in another country.
What is a refugee (or asylum seeker)?
The state with the highest population of Jewish people + Jewish immigrants
What is New York?
The court case that ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to Native Americans who did not automatically gain citizenship by birth and could therefore be denied the right to vote.
What is Elk v. Wilkins?
Countries to travel through to get to the U.S. from El Salvador
What are Guatemala & Mexico?
The federal agency that oversees student visas
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
The legal process by which a non-citizen becomes a citizen of a country
What is naturalization?