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/