US Immigration History
For nearly 100 years, the United States had open borders until this Act was passed banning certain people from entering the country.
What is the Page Act of 1875?
KY has a small, growing immigrant community. This percent of the state's population was born in another country.
What is 4%? 169,346 immigrants or foreign-born individuals.
(2018, americanimmigrationcouncil.org)
In 2018, this percentage of business owners in the Cincinnati metropolitan area (which spans Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana) were immigrants.
What is 9%?
In the year _______ Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM), a non-profit agency providing resettlement services to refugees, opened an office in Covington at the Center for Great Neighborhoods.
What is 2021?
KRM is associated with an interfaith agency representing 17 denominations that was created in 1946 out of the devastation of WWII.
Refugees have an average wait time of over ________ days.
What is 700?
The Immigration Act of 1882 was the first comprehensive immigration law passed in the US. It was unique because it emphasized _________ control.
What is local control?
The enforcement of the Act was left up to state or city control where the immigration occurred.
This portion of KY immigrants possess a college or higher-level degree.
What is one-third or 33%?
Immigrant-led households in KY paid $900.7 million in federal taxes and $465.2 million in state and local taxes in 2018.
(2018, americanimmigrationcouncil.org)
In the year 2015, 32% of NKY businesses reported a talent shortage. In 2020, ______% of NKY businesses reported a talent shortage.
What is 70%
"Immigration can offeset some of the demographic dips as workers retire and exit the workforce, but public policy at the national level hasn't been welcoming to immigrant workers," Correy Eimer, NKADD at the NKY Education Council 2023 Fall Convening on 11/1/23.
(source: 11/3/23 linknky.com article by Nathan Granger)
The NKY Welcoming Plan to support new immigrants to the area was developed by a task force of _________ cross-sector community leaders in 2020.
What is 38?
Family-based immigration can take place between a few _______ to many _______.
What are months and years?
In this year, the system changed to favor immigration to relatives of current US citizens, those with particular job skills, and refugees seeking asylum from dangerous conditions in their country of origin.
Name one of the top countries of origin for KY's immigrants.
What is :
Mexico - 16%, Cuba - 7%, China - 6%, India - 5%, or Honduras - 4%?
(2018, AmericanImmigrationCouncil.org)
___________ different languages are spoken in 16 school districts across NKY.
What is 75?
(source: NKY Cooperative for Educational Services)
This local college offers adult English as a second language (ESL) classes in NKY and assists with citizenship preparation.
NKYESL is a division of the Gateway Community and Technical College Adult Education program. All services are provided through Kentucky Adult Education.
Employment-based immigration can take from _____ to _____ years.
What is 1 and 4?