Download - Intro to Immigration
Immigration Coming to America
Noun Verb
immigration to immigrate
immigrant Can you make it past tense?
NounVerb
persecution to persecute
to treat someone badly because of their race, religion, or ethnicity
Refugee noun, a person who leaves their country for safety
to flee irregular verb, to escape (past tense is fled)
We must resolve never to close the golden door behind us and always to welcome people into our hearts… Anyone who accepts the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is our fellow citizen equal in the eyes of God, entitled to be treated equally and with dignity by all of us.
- President William Jefferson Clinton from a speech given on July 4, 2000
What is the golden door?
What are rights and responsibilities?
What does it mean to be a citizen?
Blanca Alvarez tells her daughter, Connie, about crossing the border from Mexico to the United States.
http://storycorps.org/listen/blanca-and-connie-alvarez/