This is just a simplified guide. The questions are not central to the discussion in this class, but rather basic starting points. Jorge Majfud
- Was race a factor in the US immigration laws from 1790 through 1965?
- Why were Chinese people banned in the 19th century?
- Were Irish immigrants welcome in the US?
- Why was Italian and Jewish immigration not welcome at the beginning of the 20th century? What law expressed that resistance?
- How many illegal US American immigrants currently live in Mexico?
- How many US American citizens currently live abroad?
- Do we have the highest percentage in histriy of foreign-born people living in the US? What about that percentage in the 19th century and during the 20th century?
- Do immigrants (legal and illegal) in the USA have a higher or lower crime rate than the rest of the population?
- What if we make the same comparison for an age range between 16 and 55 years?
- What percentage of illegal immigrants living in the US crossed the southern border?
The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men
http://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/docs/Imm%20Criminality%20(IPC).pdf
- Even as the undocumented population has doubled to 12 million since 1994, the violent crime rate in the United States has declined 34.2 percent and the property crime rate has fallen 26.4 percent
- Cities with large immigrant populations such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Miami also have experienced declining crime rates during this period.
- Immigrants Have Lower Incarceration Rates than Natives Among men age 18-39 (who comprise the vast majority of the prison population), the 3.5 percent incarceration rate of the native-born in 2000 was 5 times higher than the 0.7 percent incarceration rate of the foreign-born.
- The foreign-born incarceration rate in 2000 was nearly two-and-a-half times less than the 1.7 percent rate for nativeborn non-Hispanic white men and almost 17 times less than the 11.6 percent rate for native-born black men.
- Native-born Hispanic men were nearly 7 times more likely to be in prison than foreign-born Hispanic men in 2000, while the incarceration rate of native-born nonHispanic white men was almost 3 times higher than that of foreign-born white men.
- Foreign-born Mexicans had an incarceration rate of only 0.7 percent in 2000—more than 8 times lower than the 5.9 percent rate of native-born males of Mexican descent. Foreign-born Salvadoran and Guatemalan men had an incarceration rate of 0.5 percent, compared to 3.0 percent of native-born males of Salvadoran and Guatemalan descent.
- Foreign-born Mexicans without a high-school diploma had an incarceration rate of 0.7 percent in 2000—more than 14 times less than the 10.1 percent of native-born male high school dropouts of Mexican descent behind bars. Only 0.6 percent of foreign-born Salvadoran and Guatemalan high-school dropouts in 2000 were in prison, which was nearly 8 times lower than the 4.7 percent incarceration rate among native-born men of Salvadoran and Guatemalan descent who lacked high-school diplomas.
Paradox
- The process of assimilation often involves the acquisition by immigrants and their descendants of English-language proficiency, higher levels of education, valuable new job skills, and other attributes that ease their entry into U.S. society and improve their chances of success in the U.S. economy.
- However, other aspects of assimilation are not as positive. For instance, immigrants, especially those from Latin America, have lower rates of adult and infant mortality and give birth to fewer underweight babies than natives despite higher poverty rates and greater barriers to health care. But their health status—and that of their children—worsens the longer they live in the United States and with increasing acculturation.
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The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant
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According to the American Immigration Council, immigrants paid $525 billion in local, state, and federal taxes in 2021. Those contributions are key to the government’s fiscal health.
“Immigrants pay $1.38 in taxes for every $1 that they consume in government benefits,” said Alex Nowrasteh with the Cato Institute.
As for U.S.-born folks? They pay just 69 cents in taxes for every dollar Uncle Sam spends on them.
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Jacksonville woman pleads guilty to smuggling in Mexican woman, used her as sex surrogate
Jacksonville woman pleads guilty to smuggling in Mexican woman, used her as sex surrogate
«Immigration and Public Safety» report (2017)
«Immigration and Public Safety» report (2017)
This report was written by Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., Research Analyst, and Josh Rovner, Juvenile Justice Advocacy Associate, at The Sentencing Project. Casey Anderson and Jessica Yoo, Program Associates at The Sentencing Project, provided research assistance. The Sentencing Project is a national non-profit organization engaged in research and advocacy on criminal justice issues.
Pew R.C. 5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S.
Pew R.C. 5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S.
The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. has stabilized in recent years after decades of rapid growth. But the origin countries of unauthorized immigrants have shifted, with the number from Mexico declining since 2009 and the number from elsewhere rising, according to the latest Pew Research Center estimates.
Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
The top reason why Americans abroad want to dump their U.S. citizenship
The top reason why Americans abroad want to dump their U.S. citizenship
- Nearly 1 in 4 American expatriates say they are “seriously considering” or “planning” to ditch their U.S. citizenship, a survey from Greenback Expat Tax Services finds.
- About 9 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, the U.S. Department of State estimates.
- More than 4 in 10 who would renounce citizenship say it’s due to the burden of filing U.S. taxes, the Greenback poll shows.
in 2014 accounted for 42 percent of the total undocumented population, or about 4.5 million people. It also projected that overstays made up about two-thirds of the total number of people who became unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. that year. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/aug/24/kevin-mccarthy/mostly-true-visa-overstays-account-half-all-people/
More people are moving from the US to Mexico than the other way around
More people are moving from the US to Mexico than the other way around
- Data indicates that more immigrants are moving from the United States to Mexico than are moving from Mexico to the US.
- From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans, including their American-born children, left the US for Mexico, according to the 2014 Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics, cited by the Pew Research Center.
- The trend is an increasingly significant phenomenon that has started to affect Mexico’s economy and culture
LAWA and 1070 Act in Arizona (2007 on)
LAWA and 1070 Act in Arizona (2007 on)
Social and economic efects.
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«Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It’s Happened Before»
«Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It’s Happened Before»
Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It’s Happened Before
During the 1930s and into the 1940s, up to two million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were deported or expelled from cities and towns across the U.S and shipped to Mexico. According to some estimates, more than half of these people were U.S. citizens, born in the United States [NPR]
8 million Americans (excluding military) live in 160-plus countries.
8 million Americans (excluding military) live in 160-plus countries.
If all these Americans were placed in one state it would be the 13th most populous state in the US (right between Virginia and Washington)
