Part of my second essay I turned in today

What are the different ways in which the United States immigration policy has evolved over the last 100 years? After the United States had first implemented immigration policies after they won their freedom. Each state started implementing them one after another, each a different one than the previous. Maryland favored Catholic immigrants, while Pennsylvania preferred Quakers. In 1875, the whole of the United States came out with restrictions on immigrants which included bans on criminals, people with contagious diseases, polygamists, anarchists, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. In the early 1900s, immigration shifted from people from northern and western Europe to southern and eastern Europeans. In response the Quotas Act and Origins Act were passed in 1921 and 1924 to hopefully restore earlier immigration patterns. Unfortunately, by 1943, long-standing immigration restrictions began to crumble when a law had been made to limit the number of Chinese to immigrate. So, in 1965, a combination of political, social, and geopolitical factors led to passage of of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act that created a new system favoring family reunification and skilled immigrants, rather than country quotas. The law imposed the first limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere since before then, Latin Americans had been allowed to enter the U.S. without many restrictions, so now it’d be more difficult for them to get in. The most recent change to this policy was by Obama in 2012, where he added to the list of reasons to come into the United States, was if you were domestically attacked. But now that Trump has been in office, people are questioning whether he’s keeping true to this policy.

Part of my first exam essay

The United States; the largest melting pot in the world. This country has the highest amount of immigrants per year entering, whether legally or illegally. They face a giant problem with Mexico and Central America, with immigrants coming in. The United States has buildings where the foreigners are to go to and get their documents filled out to see if they are eligible to enter the United States, but many just try to enter without going through this process. Since these people do not go through the process, it could either mean that they have some bad history behind them and are trying to do something bad in the United States or are trying to get away as quickly as possible, but either way, they’re not entitled to get through before everyone else who are genuinely waiting their turn. Other reasons the United States has so many people coming into it is because of their economy and job opportunities. Their economy is doing really good as of right now so many jobs are being taken by people coming either legally or illegally, but as of right now, the unemployment rate is at 3.7% as of October though. As a result of so many immigrants from Mexico going there, 13.4% of the United States speaks Spanish. The other immigrants the United States gets a lot of is Asians fleeing from some type of dictator since some of those countries have dictators or where in China they have the law about only one kid per family, so many people could be fleeing from that. Another result of so many immigrants coming over is that the United States has a more diverse group of religions now which can cause some violence like the shooting at that Jewish Church back in October because the man didn’t like Jews. But by far the biggest problem the United States faces with immigrants is all of the illegal immigrants crossing the border without any documents or anything. This causes lots of tension between Americans and foreigners so more violence or the Net Migration Rate of the United States of 3.9 per 1000 could be because they don’t want to deal with foreigners. The United States seems over populated with almost 300,000,000 people. As of right now this immigration situation is something Donald Trump is currently trying to work on and fix by building a wall to keep illegals out.

Migration Test Day

Today we had a test....(ooooo fun....) :( I don't like tests at all. Today's one it was pretty easy but the the matching the right vocabulary word to its definition made me rethink some of them twice because they have such similar definitions and similar words so it got me second guessing myself but I'm pretty sure I got them right...hopefully. The multiple choice ones were easier but I always get that feeling when there isn't that letter used on that page, I have done something wrong. The test was one of the easier ones this year and I hope I got at least a ninety percent because I want to keep my grade up in the ninety percentile. I'm kind of ready for exams next week, but like not really either, I need to get somewhere on my essays since I only have the first paragraph written on my first essay.

Last of the Migration Notes

Mexico's Border with the United States -
- view from the United States recognizes motives that compel unauthorized immigrants to enter illegally such as employment opportunities, family reunification, and a better way of life.
- view from Mexico is more complicated; residents of northern Mexico wish for compassion to be shown to unauthorized immigrants while residents of southern Mexico are less tolerant because of number of unauthorized immigrants entering Mexico from Guatemala.
Immigration concerns in the United States -
- most views of immigration by United States citizen are ambivalent in nature.
Border Patrol - they would like more effective border control but they don't want to open more money to solve the issue.
Workplace - most recognize that unauthorized immigrants take jobs from United States citizens, but they understand most citizens wouldn't take the jobs so they support a path to the United States citizenship for these unauthorized immigrants.
Civil Rights - United States citizens favor letting law enforcement officials stop and verify the legal status of anyone, but they fear civil rights will be infringed upon of United States citizens as a result of racial profiling.
Notes continue.....

Migration Notes

Controlling Migration -
Countries have adopted selective immigration policies; preferences shown for specific employment places and family reunification. Passing of the Quota Act in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924 by the United States Congress marked the end of the unrestricted immigration to the United States. More seek admission to the United States than is permitted by the quotas, thus preferences are shown toward: Family reunification (about three-fourths of immigrants), skilled workers (about one-fourth of immigrants), diversity (a few immigrants admitted because their sending country historically has sent very few migrants).

Unauthorized Immigration -
Unauthorized immigrants are those who enter a country without paper documents. Characteristics of unauthorized immigrants in the United States; Source country (roughly fifty-eight percent emigrate from Mexico), children (estimated 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants, nearly one million are children). Unauthorized immigrants have given birth to 4.5 million children on United States soil, making the children U.S. citizens.

Why do migrants face challenges? notes

Transportation, improvements that have promoted globalization, such as motor vehicles and airplanes, have diminished the importance of environmental features as intervening obstacles. Most of the major obstacles that immigrants faced were political. The U.N. classifies countries into four types of immigration policies; 1) maintain the current level of immigration, 2) increase the level, 3) reduce the level, 4) no policy. Similarly, emigration policies are identified by the same four classes. Twenty-one countries seek more immigrants, thirty-two want fewer immigrants, one hundred sixteen wish to maintain the current level, and twenty-five do not have a policy. Ten of the twenty-one countries are in Europe including most of the Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The thirty-two countries with with policies to reduce immigration include ten in Southwest Asia & North Africa as well as eight in Sub-Saharan Africa. Of course these aren't all my notes, but that would take like until past 12pm so this is where I'm going to stop.

Changing U.S. Immigration Notes

The United States is inhabited by direct descendants of immigrants. 80 million people migrated here between 1820 and 2015. We've had three eras of immigration: Colonial settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries, European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Asian and Latin America immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 62 percent have come from Europe and 38 percent came from Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the Africans were forced to migrate here since many of them were slaves and European migrants came here voluntarily.  Between 1820 and 1920, 32 million people migrated here, and 90 percent of them were from Europe. Germany has sent the largest amount of immigrants here: 7.2 million, Italy: 5.4 million, United Kingdom: 5.3 million, Ireland: 4.8 million, and Russia: 4.1 million. Immigration stopped sharply in the 1930s and the 1940s due to The Great Depression and World War II, but then began to rise once again in the 1950s. Mexico passed Germany in 2006 for sending over immigrants.