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Warm Up: 2/20

Take out your article from yesterday and answer the following using the article as a reference: 1. What is the Naturalization Act? 2. What is the Chinese Exclusion Act? 3. What is a “quota system”?

US Immigration Policy 2-20-14

1. Family Based Immigration

allows U.S citizens to bring certain family members to the United States.

There are 480,000 family-based visas available every year for spouses of U.S. citizens unmarried minor children of U.S. citizens (under 21 years old) parents of U.S. citizens (Petitioner must be at least 21 years

old to petition for a parent.)

Preferences for adult children (married and unmarried) and brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. (Petitioner must be at least 21 years old to petition for a sibling.) spouses and unmarried children (minor and adult) of LPRs

2. Employment Based Immigration

There are 20 types of visas for temporary nonimmigrant workers.

Most of the temporary work visas are for highly skilled workers.

Permanent Employment-Based Preference System Preference Category Eligibility Yearly # Limit

Total Employment-Based Immigrants 140,0001 “Persons of extraordinary ability” in the arts,

science, education, business, or athletics; professors and researchers, some multinational executives.

40,000*

2 Members of the professions holding advanced degrees, or persons of exceptional abilities in the arts, science, or business.

40,000**

3 Skilled shortage workers with at least two years of training or experience, professionals with college degrees, or “other” workers for unskilled labor that is not temporary or seasonal.

 40,000***

Other” unskilled laborers - 5,000

4 Certain “special immigrants” including religious workers, employees of U.S. foreign service posts, former U.S. government employees and other classes of aliens.

10,000

5 Persons will invest $500,000 to $1 million in a job-creating enterprise that employs at least 10 full time U.S. workers.

10,000

3. Refugees and Asylum seekers Refugees (0-5)

A person who cannot live in their home country due to war, persecution, or natural disaster.

The reason for their persecution is related to their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

Asylum (0-5) The protection granted by a

nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.

3. Refugees and Asylees

(Refugees must obtain permission before they enter America, Asylees apply for asylum once they have already been in America. They do not have to be legal to apply- they can apply voluntarily or defensively)

The US admits up to 80,000 refugees a year. There is no limit on asylees, but the numbers tend to be 20-30,000.

Africa 15,500

East Asia 17,000

Europe and Central Asia

2,500

Latin America/Caribbean

5,000

Near East/South Asia

35,000

Unallocated Reserve

5,000

TOTAL 80,000Refugee Numbers allocated by region in 2010

A few questions regarding the differences.

Answer the following questions with the person next to you.

1) How are refugees and asylum seekers different from the larger immigrant population?

2) Who determines whether someone is refugee? An asylum seeker?

3) How are these two categories different?

4) From what countries or places do Refugees and Asylum seekers come from?

5) What do you think would cause someone to be eligible for refugee status?

4. “Other” Forms of Humanitarian Relief

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is granted to people who are in the US but cannot return to their home country because of “natural disaster,” “ongoing armed conflict,” etc. TPS is granted for 5, 12, or 18 months.

Deferred Enforced Departure provides protection from deportation for individuals whose home countries are unstable, therefore making return dangerous.

. The Diversity Visa Lottery

50,000 available visas randomly given per year Applicants must be from a country with less than 50,000

immigrants in the last 5 years. must have a high school education (or its equivalent) or

have, within the past five years, a minimum of two years experience working in a profession requiring at least two years of training or experience

5. Citizenship

In order to qualify for U.S. citizenship: must have had LPR status (a green card) for at

least 5 years (or 3 years if he obtained his green card through a U.S. citizen spouse or through the Violence Against Women Act, VAWA).

must be at least 18 years old demonstrate continuous residency demonstrate “good moral character” pass English and U.S. history and civics exams pay an application fee ($680)

Warm Up: 2/21/14

1. What are 3 ways immigrants can legally stay in the US?

2. What is a refugeee? What is asylum?3. Do you think America should cap the

number of refugees and asylum seekers?

Perspectives of immigration

Immigration Liberal

Support legal immigration.  Support amnesty for those who enter the U.S. illegally (undocumented immigrants).  Also  believe that undocumented immigrants have a right to:-- all educational and health benefits that citizens receive (financial aid, welfare, social security and medicaid), regardless of legal status.-- the same rights as American citizens.  It is unfair to arrest millions of undocumented immigrants.

ConservativeSupport legal immigration only.  Oppose amnesty for those who enter the U.S. illegally (illegal immigrants).  Those who break the law by entering the U.S. illegally do not have the same rights as those who obey the law and enter legally.  The borders should be secured before addressing the problem of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.  The Federal Government should secure the borders and enforce current immigration law.