Chinese Exclusion Act

Short Description

The Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 was the first law restricting immigrants into the United States. Many Chinese workers in the United States were deported because their papers were not valid anymore. Others couldn’t enter again to the United States. The law last 61 years until was repealed by Congress. Wong Kim a son of Chinese went to Court appealing that he was born in the United States. The case became very famous because he won it. America has changed a lot since 1882, and the Chinese population went from .02% in 1882 to 3.8 million in 2017. A lot of Chinese immigrants made the United States their new country.

Bullet points

• The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law restricting immigrants into the United States.
• It affected the population of the chinese.
• It was renewed after it expired.
• Wong Kim Ark went to court for his rights as a chinese born in America.
• It ended in 1943.

Vocabulary Words

• Exclusion- The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
• Deportation- The action of deporting a foreigner from a country.
• Moratorium- A temporary prohibition of an activity.
• Act- A written ordinance of Congress, or another legislative body; a statute.

Video

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive

Links

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=

http://www.history.com/topics/chinese-exclusion-act/videos

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/02/445346769/he-famously-fought-for-his-u-s-citizenship-where-are-his-descendants-now

Tijani Yusuf

Daniyal Noor

The Current Travel Ban

The ban signed by President Donald trump, Imposed on seven Muslim populated countries, on January 27, 2017. This ban had led to so many chaos in the society and has so many questions and reasonable answers have not been gotten yet. The ban which has led to sleepless nights for some people, because they have to be online in order to get a one or two way ticket to the United States. Sales of plane tickets have dropped, reservation for hotel rooms going low and marriages being withheld.

Links to read more about the travel ban

http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/who-are-refugees-barred-entering-united-states?utm_medium=Search&utm_source=AdWords&utm_campaign=RefugeeRoundup&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu77Im9jQ1wIVxoqzCh1uZQdiEAAYBCAAEgIJLvD_BwE

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/11/battle-over-trumps-immigration-travel-ban-escalates/655254001/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCgGtINHLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhsO-JBK6rQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZtB8nLRdU
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2738203/donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban-north-korea-latest/

Bullet Points: 1. Donald Trump is not letting some Islamic dominated countries into the U.S.
2. Decrease in sale of airplane tickets.
3. Hotels and reservation having a drop in price.
4. Relationships read to turn into marriage being withheld.
5. People travelling to other countries instead of the U.S.
6. Decrease of tourist coming to the U.S.

Vocabulary: 1. Irrelevant - No connected to something.

   Synonym: Unconnected, unrelated.

2. Complicated - Difficult to analyze, understand, explain.

   Synonym: Hard, sophisticated.
3. Demonstrating aggressive and willingness to fight.
    Synonym: Threatening, battleful.
4. Lamenting -  Express disappointment over something considered unsatisfactory, unfair.    Synonym: Regretting, Sad.
5. Enthusiastic - Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest.
   Synonym: Passionate, willing.
 

Group video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fCiO7ycK4r_3RL9ZPzEtY9cYsuyQJHSS/view?ts=5a1efade

Japanese-American internment camp

                    Short introduction about Japanese- American Relocation

           Japanese- American Relocation happened after the Japanese bombing  Pearl Harbor. Since 1942, the United State government has detained and imprisoned about 10 thousand Japanese- Americans living on Pacific coast. On February 19, 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that all Japanese- American had to evacuate the West Coast. Until the war ended that the United States dissolved the camp.

  

1. During World War II Japanese army attacked on Pearl Harbor.  
2. President Roosevelt signed Executive order to relocate 110,000 Japanese into Internment Camps.
3. Broke up Japanese family.
4. The U.S. government apologized that after war.
5. Some Japanese are American citizens.
6. The U.S. government relocated Japanese American from West Coast of America to the middle of America.
7. Anti-Japanese sentiment was full of society in the U.S. 

 Links to the articles:

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation

http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp

https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/chilling-pictures-of-life-at-japanese-internment-camps?utm_term=.vlrBVJbRy#.ytRx5nmo1

Links to the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLXdGJFRkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiOSUN4EgVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjJ2Q2PnlSg      

Most important vocabulary words

1. Internment- to confine or impound especially during a war, interned enemy aliens
2. Relocation- establish or lay out in a new place, to move to a new location
3. Restitution- a legal action serving to cause restoration of a previous state

     Ex: Congress awarded restitution payments to each survivor of the camps.

4.            Flagrant- conspicuously offensive, so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality. Ex: flagrant violations of human rights

5.            Renunciations- the act or practice of renouncing, ascetic self-denial.

     Ex: renunciations made behind barbed wire were void

6.            omitted- to leave out or leave unmentioned, to leave undone. Ex: omits one important detail

7.            relinquished- to withdraw or retreat from, to stop holding physically, to give over possession or control of. Ex: Internees relinquished their communities, homes, and livelihoods for cramped barracks.

8.            emasculated-  to deprive of virility or procreative power. Ex: Japanese men felt emasculated

9.            manifested- easily understood or recognized by the mind. Ex: A prejudice that had manifested itself.

10.          construed- to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in a sentence, to understand to explain the sense or intention of usually in a particular way Ex: Japanese patriotism and valor more broadly construed.

Childern Migrants crossing into border of the U.S.

Jaimy Garcia

Emad Abdullah

Elzara Amirova

Siqi Zhang

 Children Migrants Crossing into the Border of the U.S.

Sources

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/world/americas/trying-to-slow-the-illegal-flow-of-young-migrants-at-the-border-reports-show-decline-in-texas.html#

Video from ABC News –

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/invisible-crisis-small-children-crossing-us-border-24098280

Video from Al Jazeera -  Unaccompanied children cross US border - Al Jazeera Video

http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/unaccompanied-children-cross-us-border/3619743780001

Introduction

            Children that are from Central America are struggling to cross the border because they are not allowed to cross it without their two parents. There are being some case where there is only one of the parents and their child and they still don’t let them pass. There are also some cases where people don’t have enough money give to the cops so that they can let them go free.

                     Main Idea

•       Children from Guatemala, Honduras and other parts of South America can’t cross the border to the United States without a parent's.

•     Most of the children who cross the borders are from central America where escaped from violence and poverty. Most of them are from Honduras where it considered murder capital of the world.

•     The number of the parent heading to the united state is decreasing because of how tough the journey is and how the police are increasing.

•     The children who are held in the US border are treated badly.

•     While thousands of child migrants from Central America have crossed the Rio Grande to U.S. soil, thousands more don’t make it that far. Many end up detained or broke in towns like Reynosa, Mexico.

•     Mexico and Guatemala are making harder for the people who are from central America to flee their country by increasing the number of the police and redouble the efforts to arrest smugglers.

•     The people in Central America don’t care of how hard is it going to flee their county. They will try and try again unless they have something in their countries such as jobs, school, and lack of violence. 

Vocabulary

Humanitarian: Adj. concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare.

Synonyms: compassionate, humane; unselfish, altruistic, generous

Sentence: UNICEF are doing humanitarian aids

Deterring: V.  to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.

Synonyms: discourage, dissuade, put off, scare off

Sentence: It's my responsibility to monitor and deter them in the mortal world.

Perils: N. great dangers.

Synonyms: danger, jeopardy, risk, hazard, insecurity, uncertainty, menace, threat

Sentence: My friend was in peril.

Harrowing: Adj. extremely upsetting or disturbing

Synonyms: afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating

Sentence: The video is harrowing.

Detained: V.  keeps someone in a place under their control.

Synonyms: delay, hold up, make late, keep

Sentence: Most of the immigrants from Central America are detained at the border.

 The highly dangerous neighborhood of Honduras

A family waits for a plane of migrants deported from the United States, as it arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales Airport in San Pedro Sula.

Victoria Córdova and her daughter, Genesis, were deported from the United States and have returned to their dangerous neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She borrowed money from a local gang to be smuggled into the US. She says she cannot afford to repay the debt.

This how the children sleep in the warehouse when they are interring the US.

DACA by Marcy, Pascual, Tao, Christine

               DACA

                       

                                                        

                  Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals

Introduction

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, known as DACA. The former president Barrack Obama implemented DACA program in 2012. The main idea of DACA program is to help young immigrants, who came to the United States, to have education and job opportunities. As a result, DACA program helped to elevate the U.S. economy.

                                                   

• DACA program was created by the former president Barack obama in 2012.
• Barack Obama created DACA for undocumented immigrants who entered into the United States illegally as children or teenagers.
• DACA does not give them a permanent status but allows them to stay for two-year for certain undocumented immigrants
• A rough estimate of over 15,000 young immigrants came to the United States when they were kids or mid-teens.
• Immigrants protested countrywide in regards to Trump uncivilized act
• Former president, Barrack Obama implicated to Trump and I quote “think long and think harder before eradicate people's lives”

Vocabulary

Migrants: (noun) Traveler who moves from one religion or country to another.

        Synonym: immigrants, settlers

        Family words: migrate, migratory

       Sentence: Many migrants moved to developed countries because they want their children have better education.

Mobilize: (verb) To encourage people to support something in an active way

        Synonym: mobilize, marshal,summon

        Family words: mobile (noun) mobilise (vi) mobile (adj)

       Sentence: The immigrants have mobilized the different organizations and groups that supports the program of DACA .

Protest:(vi,vt,n,adj ) Something that you do to show publicly that you think that something is wrong and unfair

       Synonym: objection, dissent,resist

       Family words: protestant, protestingly, protester

      Sentence: Many immigrants who are in the program of DACA protest Trump’s decision of “immediately terminate”.

Initiative: (noun, adj) The ability to make decisions and take action without waiting for someone to tell you what to do.

       Synonym:enterprise, go-ahead, inaugural

       Family words: initiatory, initiation,initiate

      Sentence: I wish my children would show more initiative.

Eliminate:(vt) To completely get rid of something that is unnecessary or unwanted

      Synonym: obviate, avoid, exclude

     Family word: elimination,eliminator

     Sentence: Obama administration tried to eliminate the problems in the DACA program so immigrants don’t have to be kicked out of America.

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Links to the articles and videos:

Videos:   DACA ‘dreamers’ fear nightmare immigration policy

           What ‘Dreamers’ Gained From DACA, and Stand to Lose

           What Is DACA?

Articles: A Passport Stamp Gives Dreamers Hope as the Trump Era Looms

          19 immigration protesters arrested outside Ryan's office

          Trump to take fight over DACA documents to Supreme Court

Group video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cVY5SNilqqz1XmPARaeglRqc35a-Dq-G/view?usp=sharing