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Define Immigration cruelty
What is the unjust treatment of immigrants
Meaning of undocumented in the U.S.
What is is a foreign-born person who doesn't have a legal right to be or remain in the United States
acronym for DACA
What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
define immigration
What is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens.
True or false: people can come to the US for many different reasons
What is true
Define naturalization
What is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.
Two flags we asked you about in the flag game
What is South Africa, Nepal, Argentina, France, Japan, Spain, Germany and Canada
What DACA is
What is a policy that protects young children that enter the country unlawfully the children must be under 16 when coming to the U.S.
A percent of people who come to the US on family sponsored visas
What is over 60%
Children who entered this country unlawfully can get licenses, a social security number, and a work permit but what can they not get?
What is a granted way to citizenship.
Acronym for ICE
What is Immigration and customs enforcement
DHS acronym
What is the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS‘s focus
is focused on the process of getting goods and people into the U.S.
The biases and beliefs fueled the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act
some Americans were threatened by Chinese immigrants due to their cultural differences. These new immigrants had different lifestyles and habits which the Americans feared would threaten their existing culture. Americans were afraid Chinese workers would drive wages down, take their jobs and would be unable to assimilate into American culture
A percent that come to the US through a diversity visa program
what is 4%
The purpose of ICE
What is to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
The age do you have to be under in order for DACA to help you
What is 16
Time ICE was formed
What is after 9/11
The requirements of naturalization
To become a naturalized citizen, an individual must usually be a lawful permanent resident for at least five years, residing in the U.S. for half of that time. Naturalization requires passing an interview (in English), an English test, and a civics test, undergoing a background check, and taking an Oath of Allegiance.
The presidency DACA was announced during
What is the Obama presidency
Reason why people are angry with ICE
What is they are not doing their job and are more focused on deporting all undocumented immigrants than their real purpose
define the Chinese Exclusion Act
What is a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
The point of the quota system
to limit the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. It discriminated against immigrants of color
number of passengers on the St. Louis that died during the holocaust
254 of the passengers on the St. Louis died in the Holocaust.
There were ___ people on the St. Louis
935 people.
On May 13, 1939, 935 people — almost all of them German Jews — set sail from Hamburg, Germany on a ship called the St. Louis.