A hurricane is an example of this type of push factor.
What is environmental?
100
Just over 50% of applicants “pass” the refugee screening process?
What is true?
100
Most immigrants move to new countries to get on welfare, unemployment, or other "free money" programs.
What is a myth?
Fact: People usually move to new countries in search of honest work for decent pay. Most immigrants work and pay taxes, so they actually help their new nation's economy rather than hurt it.
100
Name two of the seven biggest challenges facing immigrants.
What are learning English, securing housing, transportation, securing work, raising successful children, accessing services, and accessing services?
200
Someone who moves from place to place to do seasonal work.
What is a migrant?
200
Lack of jobs and poverty are examples of this type of push factor.
What is economic?
200
On average the refugee screening process takes 6 to 12 months to complete.
What is false?
Fact: It takes 18-24 months to go through the entire process.
200
In some cases, new arrivals in a country do compete for jobs with people already living there. But more often, new immigrants take low-paying jobs that others don't want, or create their own businesses and jobs.
What is fact?
200
People who are born in the United States are automatically citizens at birth. Name another way you are automatically a US citizen.
What is people born outside the U.S. to parents who are both citizens?
The rules can get a bit complicated for people born outside the U.S. who have only one citizen parent, but generally they are also citizens at birth.
300
Things that attract an individual or group to leave their home.
What are pull factors?
300
The Mayflower Pilgrims established the Plymouth Colony in America (1620) to escape religious persecution. This is an example of a ________________pull factor.
What is political?
300
There are currently less than 100,000 undocumented immigrants in the US.
What is false?
Fact: The US currently has 11.4 million undocumented immigrants, most have lived here for more than 5 years.
300
When people move to new countries, they bring crime with them. Immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans.
What is myth?
Fact: Statistics show that in the US, immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. 1.6 percent of immigrant males age 18-39 are put in prison, compared to 3.3 percent of the native-born.
300
This gives someone the legal right to live and work permanently in the United States. It also lets them travel to other countries for a certain period of time.
What is a Green Card?
400
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
What is persecution?
400
Swedish men chose to emigrate with their families rather than be subjected to mandatory military service. This is an example of a ________________ push factor.
What is political?
400
Maine immigrants are becoming US citizens at a higher rate than immigrants in the rest of the country.
What is true?
Fact: Almost 51% of Maine immigrants are already US citizens. The national average is 42%.
400
Of the one-third of immigrants who are undocumented, about half of them entered the U.S. through a legal way, and the other half crossed the border secretly.
What is fact?
400
People who weren’t born U.S. citizens can still obtain
citizenship through a process called...
What is naturalization?
500
Someone who leaves their own country, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there.
What is an asylum seeker?
500
During WWII, English girls met American servicemen and the 1945 War Brides and Fiancées Acts allowed American Soldiers to bring their foreign partners to the US. This is an example of a _____________ push factor.
What is social?
500
Between 2001 to 2015, the U.S. admitted more than 750,000 refugees. None have been arrested on domestic terrorism charges.
What is true?
Fact: Although two, a pair of Iraqis in Kentucky, were charged with terrorist activities connected to aiding al-Qaeda.
500
Undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes but still get benefits.
What is myth?
Fact: Undocumented immigrants pay taxes every time they buy something. They also pay property taxes if they buy a house. They cannot receive welfare or food stamps.
500
The final step of becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen
is
a. singing the US national anthem.
b. memorizing the first ten constitutional amendments.
c. taking an Oath of Allegiance swearing loyalty to the United States.
d. All of the above.
What is taking an Oath of Allegiance swearing loyalty to the United States.