Immigration Quiz

What was the question?
-About four out of 10 undocumented immigrants enter the country legally and then overstay their visas. What percentage of undocumented immigrants cross the southern border of the U.S.?

What was your inital answer?
-12 percent

What was the correct answer?
-40 percent

WHY did it surprise you so much? What did you learn?
-because that's alot of undocumented immigrants coming into the U.S from the southern border. I learned that we have lots of illegal and legal immigrants coming from all different places into the U.S.

Grades

What is your grade?
-My grade is a 40% (F)

How many missing assignments are you missing?
-I have 12 missing assignments.

Are you satisfied with this grade? If so, how will you maintain it? If not, how will you improve it?
-No, because I know I can do better and I'm going to improve my grade by getting all my missing assignments turned before the end of this week.

Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

Undocumented Workers
- Undocumented women filll our lowest paying jobs and go through so much hard labor to get the food we eat today.
- There are is about 4.1 million undocumented women in the U.S. today. In addition, 4 million U.S.-born children.

Farmworkers
- The U.S Department of Labor states that farmworkers suffer from higher rates of toxic chemical injuries and skin disorders than any other workers in the country.
- The children immagrant farmworkers have higher rates of pesticide exposure than the general public.

Poultry Workers
- Almost a quarter of the workers that butcher and process meat, poultry and fish are undocumented.
- Out of 174 chicken factories in the major U.S are latino and more than half are women.

Sexual Abuse on the Job
-  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discovered that hundreds if not thousands of women had to have sex with supervisors to get or keep jobs and/or put up with a constant barrage of grabbing and touching and propositions for sex by supervisors
- It showed in an article in Florida of 1989 that sexual harrasment was so bad that the women would refer to fields in California as "The Green Motel" and "Fil de Calzon" ("Fields of Panties")

Immigration & Nativism

migrate- Move from one region to another.

migration- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another.

immigration- The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

1. What is nativism?
Nativism refers to a policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants.

2. What were the two main sources of nativism in the early 19th century?
Religion and labor.

3. What were the two main groups that resulted from nativism?
The know- nothing party and the Ku Klux Klan.

4. What has been the result of 20th century nativism?
Tighter immagration laws

1. What countries did they come from?
They came from mainly Italy and Ireland.

2. Why did they come to America?
They came to America for a better life and because there's freedom and land.

3. Were they welcome here? EXPLAIN.
They weren't really welcome here. When they arrived, many of them were put through lots of obstacles because since they were coming from diffeent countries and different places everyone didnt get along and since they were illegaly entering America the people who already lived there were mean because they were there first.

4. What did they do when they arrived? Where did they live? Jobs? Housing?
When they arrived they looked for jobs, they lived in people's basements, and they would work in slaughter houses while girls sewed buttons on shirts.

Jewish Resistance

Jews started trying to fight back in 1943 when they heard rumors saying that the Germans were goignt o deport all the Jews. Jewish groups attacked German tanks with Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms. The Germans were able to stop the war within days but it took about a month to deport all the Jews.Thousands of Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into forests. Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers in 1943 and prisoners with stolen weapons attacked the staff. Jews in the ghetto camps responded to the Nazi's with spiritual resistance such as creating Jewish cultural institutions, continuing to observe religious holidays and rituals, providing clandestine education, publishing underground newspapers, and collecting and hiding documentation.




Shocking Facts:
- Nearly 250 Jews died during the fighting.
- 200 more Jews died, the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium.

One Thousand Children Website Project

The Holocaust rescue started being discovered around the time of the 1940s which was about a decade and a half after the war. His brother and sister survived due to a four-country, trans-continental odyssey. He was interested in researching history and what happened in the holocaust because of what he had to go through during the holocaust. In the next section he"s gonnna be talking about his research on how a group of dedicated individuals, and later organizations, rose to the threat of Nazism, faced American immigration laws and child-settlement bureaucratic limitations, and took upon themselves the challenge of saving hundreds of children from discrimination and possible death.

When the war started around 1933 the German/Jewish kids didn't have any safe places to go so they finally started moving some 40,000 Jewish kids into safe homes with different families and were hopefully on there way to reaching the U.S. The children refugees were held highger than the adult refugees and always came first. Some of the reason as to why is because, they would not compete with labor during the economic depression, American immigration regulations already stipulated that the Secretary of Labor would accept bonds for unaccompanied children, and last was because children would arouse more sympothy than any other group. Between 1933 and 1934 the American Jewish Comittee worked with a program thta would bring 250 German- Jewish children to the United States.