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Title: Immigration


1
Immigration
  • History
  • Current System
  • Backlash
  • Other Issues/Proposals

2
The modern Period
  • 1965 Immigration Act
  • Not based on national quotas
  • priority given to family reunification
  • The new boom--3rd world immigration
  • air travel, chain sponsorship
  • 1986 IRCA granted amnesty for 3 million here
    illegally
  • Today an estimated 12 million in the country
    illegally

3
Current System
  • Types of legal immigration
  • Family sponsored (for Green Card only spouse or
    child)
  • Student or Employment based
  • Refugee/Asyleereasonable fear of persecution
    for ethnic, cultural, religious reasons
  • OtherDiversity Lottery, etc.

4
Post 9/11
5
Is immigration (still) good for the country?
  • costs schools, medical, courts, police, etc.
  • benefits provide labor, pay many taxes,
    reinvigorate cities
  • objection new immigrants not assimilating like
    old--a permanent foreign underclass, especially
    given new economy
  • defense are assimilating

6
Backlash
  • English as Official Language
  • Since 1980s 16 states and several municipalities
    passed Official Language laws, ban bilingual ed
    and services
  • 1994 Prop 187
  • denying illegal immigrants state-funded education
    and non-emergency medical care
  • thrown out by the courts

7
Other issues
  • Drivers licenses
  • permitted in four states
  • Matricular IDs
  • granted by foreign countries consulates
  • accepted as valid in a dozen states, some cities
  • Voting
  • a history of non-citizen voting
  • NY, Chicago, and others allow it for school
    boardsSF?

8
Proposals before Congress
  • House version
  • Criminalize as a felony illegal immigration
  • Expand border patrol and build 700 mile barrier
    (both House and Senate)
  • No path to legal status from within US
  • Senate version
  • Illegal immigrants in the US for 2 years could be
    eligible for a new temporary guest worker program
  • After 5 years of steady employment, can apply for
    a green card
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