A Tale of Illegal Immigrants

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Mexico
to the USA
A Tale of Illegal Immigrants
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MEXICO TO THE USA
Why do people try to cross the border illegally
? What are the push factors ? What are the pull
factors ?
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The border at night
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Around 1,000,000 people a year are caught by the
United States Border Patrol trying to cross the
border. Many of these are repeat offenders. What
would make you risk a crossing ? What do you
think most Americans think of the illegal
aliens or pollos as they are called ? Why are
some people glad to see the illegal immigrants?
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Creative Writing...

• You are now to begin a piece of creative writing
  about migration from Mexico to the USA.
• Imagine that you are one of the many Mexicans
  desperate to get into the USA, bearing in mind
  the numerous push and pull factors that you are
  aware of.
• You cannot cross the border legally you must
  sneak across.
• You are to produce a piece of writing telling
  the story of how you managed to cross the border
  (or not!!)

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How to write creatively

• use the past tense
• first person viewpoint (ie. I)
• in chronological order (ie. Order of time)
• opening paragraph describe your situation, your
  feelings and your plans
• 2nd paragraph the start of your journey, perhaps
  mentioning the push factors
• 3rd paragraph your journey over the border,
  still mentioning push but also pull factors
• use adjectives to project the mood and describe
  your feelings
• include lots of your feelings how would you feel
  if you got caught??

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Try to include

• Details of the push factors that are making you
  want to move. Think about money, housing, crime,
  lack of employment opportunities, natural hazards
  (earthquakes), transport systems
• What was attracting you towards the USA (pull
  factors) ?
• How you travelled over the border ?
• Any danger you experienced along the way did you
  meet the border patrols, did you pay a coyote
  to help ?
• What you did if you managed to cross the border

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Final 3 slides adapted from Carly Goodwins
presentation, available from http//www.sln.org.uk
/geography Possible formats A diary A statement
to the border patrol, or in court A letter
home An e-mail home A poem A phone conversation