Immigrants 3

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IMMIGRANTS B R E A U N A

C R O W T H E R

Immigration is very messy to get into because once people immigrate to America of course they need to work to get their citizenship. I didn't think it was necessary to have the long wait. On our statue of Liberty it says "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" then here we are pushing people away just because they are different from us.

A lot of people get confused with words that are very similar with Immigration. For example what is Migration and Emigration how they are different from Immigration.

Definitions

IMMIGRATION

IS TO LEAVE YOUR HOME COUNTRY TO LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY PERMINATLY ( think to Come in )

MIGRATION You move like birds from place to place ( think to Move )

EMIGRATE To leave your country to live in another ( think to Exit )

14.8% 13.5% In 1890 there was only 14.8%

In 2016 there was now 43.7

of Immigrants living here in

million foreign born in the

America that would be around 9.2 million Immigrants .

United States and it Quadrupled the amount in 1970 (4.7%).

GRAPH

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This graph shows what will has or will happen to the immigration coming to the United states starting at 18502017ish The bottom graph shows how much of them were Unauthorized, Lawful, or Temporary lawful residents in America

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Since we have immigration we have kids who aren't documented

The undocumented kids in America are allowed to go to school (k-12) but they can not legally vote, drive, work, or get financial aid

School K-12

Nationality Immigration Act Act "Nationality Act of 1965,

"Immigration Act of 1990,

which relaxed the

which granted temporary

restrictions on immigration

protective status on an

from countries in those

individual basis to people

parts of the world".

from countries suffering from armed conflict or natural disasters"

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