Definitions
In the US, this is an individual who is born in a country or acquires permanent residency in a country through naturalization or descent. This individual has rights and responsibilities under their respective country's laws
What is a Citizen?
This country's colonial authorities, prior to independence, regulated immigration which caused tension in the colonies
What is Great Britain?
Nationwide raids (including at schools and hospitals), expedited removal procedures, and the expanded use of federal and local agencies, including military involvement, was coined for use in this administration in this public document
What is Project 2025?
This social institution is responsible for patrolling our southern border
What is the Government
This presidential administration focused heavily on immigration and uses tactics like mass deportations and the weaponization of the National Guard to handle undocumented immigrants.
This is a person that was forced to flee their country due to a well founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or membership of a social group.
What is a refugee?
From 1820-1860, about 95% of immigrants into the United States came from this region.
What is Northern Europe
(Bonus Points - Ireland, Germany, and Great Britain)
This country encourages settlement in regional areas outside of big cities.
This Catholic Principal is at play because ICE raids often disrupt businesses and because undocumented immigrants take employment in many low-paying jobs
What is the Dignity of Work/The Rights of Workers
This presidential administration is heavily criticised for a perceived failure in securing the southern border despite high numbers of acquisitions at the southern border
What is the Biden Administration
The term used to describe individuals residing in a country without legal authorization or valid immigration status
What is Undocumented?
In 1907, Immigration through this island specifically peaked at 1.3 million people.
What is Ellis Island?
The current administration's approach to immigration could shrink this by 4.7 trillion dollars over a decade due to labor shortages
What is the GDP?
This social institution helps people to form opinions about immigration by spreading the word of what is happening
What is the Media/Mass Media
This method of getting a green card is used to promote immigration from underrepresented countries so long as they have a high school diploma or 2 years of work experience
What is a Diversity Visa
The legal process through which a foreign-born individual acquires citizenship of a new country by meeting specific residency and legal requirements.
What is Naturalization?
This act in 1862 helped encourage European immigration by granting land to new arrivals
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This country takes a humanitarian approach to welcoming migrants from neighboring crises
What is Brazil?
This Catholic Principal is at play because several undocumented immigrants have been living here and participating in this for quite a while
What is the call to family/community/participation
This person is the Border Czar of the 2nd Trump Administration
Who is Tom Homan
The term used to describe movement due to external pressures such as persecution, environment, catastrophe, or conflict
What is Forced Migration
This law, signed by Woodrow Wilson, introduced a literacy requirement in order to legally immigrate to the United States, which barred many immigrants from Asia from being let in.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917
People from all over the world have built its culture, language, diversity, food, art, and innovation
What is a country's identity?
This social institution is heavily debated in the context of immigration because there are debates as to whether immigration, both documented and undocumented help or hinder it.
What is the Economy?
This proposed solution to immigration is often criticised as a form of Ethnic Cleansing
What is Remigration