Sub-Topics E-Verify Also Try American History Civil Liberties and Security Equity Homeland Security Immigration Lesson Plans Immigration Reform Lesson (PBS News) Provides a lesson to help understand immigration reform from different points of view. 04-06 Papers -Editorial: We Are All Immigrants (MSNBC News) "Millions of undocumented immigrants pay income taxes using a special identification number the IRS provides. They pay into the Social Security system, too, even though they're not eligible to collect benefits. In fact, they may be helping to keep the system afloat, with $7 billion currently in a designated suspense file, much of which is believed to have come from undocumented workers." "In 2004 there was a backlog of more than 6 million unprocessed immigration petitions, a record high. So much for suggestions that immigrants are lax about regularizing their status. Clearly the laxity is at least partly federal." 05-06 -Mexican Migration into the United States Stalls (CNN News) "Amid the backdrop of contentious debates comes a study this week from the Pew Hispanic Center, which finds that for the first time in decades, the flow of Mexican migrants to and from the United States balances out." 04-12 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA.org) Provides immigration information. 04-06 Boy Suspended for Speaking Spanish (MSNBC News) Zach Rubio reportedly was talking in Spanish to a friend during a break at Endeavor Alternative School. The account further states that a teacher overheard the exchange and the principal then suspended the student for talking in Spanish. "The school district has officially rescinded his punishment and said that speaking a foreign language is not grounds for suspension. Meanwhile, the Rubio family has retained a lawyer, who says a civil rights lawsuit may be in the offing." "Conflicts are bursting out nationwide over bilingual education, 'English-only' laws, Spanish-language publications and advertising, and other linguistic collisions. Language concerns have been a key aspect of the growing political movement to reduce immigration." 12-05 Editorial: Arizona Law Violating U.S. Treaty (CNN News) "That law, SB 1070, requires Arizona law enforcement agents to determine the citizenship status of people they stop if the officer has an undefined 'reasonable suspicion' that the person is not in this country lawfully." "The ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit this week challenging the unconstitutional law. There is little doubt among experts that the new Arizona law will lead to increased racial profiling." "Civil libertarians have criticized the law as a violation of basic constitutional rights because it transforms Arizona's Latino community and other people of color -- who may be presumed by law enforcement officers to be in the country 'unlawfully' -- into potential criminal suspects." 05-10 Editorial: Bush's Immigration Proposal Divides Conservatives (Bloomberg.com) "Why the divergence and vehemence of opinion? The answer, analysts say, is the issue has become a test for a conservative movement unsure of its identity at a time when its leaders have presided over an era of exploding deficits and expanding government." "Jeff Bell, an anti-abortion activist and former adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, said the divide in the conservative movement reflects 'two different impulses at work: one that sees America as fundamentally a nation of immigrants, and one that fears outside forces are eroding our values.' " 05-06 Illegal Immigrant Family Outed to Mrs. Obama (ABC News) "When a Maryland second-grader told Michelle Obama in May that her mom 'doesn't have papers,' little did she know the entire world could be watching – including authorities with the power to send her parents back to Mexico." 08-10 Immersion or Bilingual Education? (American City Business Journals) "Of those [72 valid research] studies, 83 percent comparing bilingual education to immersion found that kids learned to read better through immersion. Not a single study found the reverse." 05-06 Immigration Requirements (ForeignImmigration.com) Provides information on immigration, such as to the United States. 7-05 Immigration and Green Cards Law (Nolo.com - Legal Encyclopedia) Provides basic information for persons who are not legal professionals and is organized by topic. Immigration and Spirituality (MSNBC News) Newsweek interviewed Alex Avila, "the senior producer of LatinoUSA, a nationally syndicated English language radio program produced in Austin, Texas, and distributed by National Public Radio." "The legislation brought a sense of urgency in the immigrant community and the students have been waiting for something like this to energize them. And since the Senate didn’t do anything last week, I think there's a sense of urgency still. I don't expect these marches to disappear in the next week. It's Holy week [for Catholics] this week, so they expect to have it off, and I think they'll tie the spiritual and the political." 04-06 Immigration and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution (Time.com) "According to the Pew report, 340,000 babies were born in the U.S. in 2008 to at least one undocumented parent. And of all the children of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., about 80% were born here - the rest were born abroad." "These are significant numbers and they seem to add an arrow to the quiver of those in Congress and elsewhere now suggesting the 14th Amendment of the Constitution should be changed so that anyone born in the U.S. does not automatically become a citizen." "But before rushing into that debate, Pew figures in hand, there are a few glaring questions unanswered by this new data set. For starters, how long were these illegal immigrant mothers in the U.S. before their children were born? The report itself does not answer this crucial question, so I called Jeff Passel, co-author of the report. He told me that based on the years that the report's underlying data was produced, he knows that 'well over 80%' of the 340,000 births cited in the report happened to women who had been in the U.S. more than one year. That blows a giant hole in the notion that mothers are crossing the U.S.-Mexican border just in time to give birth in American hospitals." 08-10 Judge Blocks Controversial Sections of Immigration Law (New York Times) "A federal judge, ruling on a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, has blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect." 07-10 Office of Citizenship (CBS News) "The Office of Citizenship is mandated by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to promote instruction and training on citizenship rights and responsibilities and to provide immigrants with information and tools necessary to successfully integrate into American civic culture." 04-06 Poll: Citizens Overwhelmingly Believe U.S. Not Doing Enough on Illegals (ABC News) "The public overwhelmingly says the United States is not doing enough to keep illegal immigrants out of the country." "The intensity of this view, moreover, runs high — a majority of Americans, 56 percent, feel 'strongly' that the U.S. isn't doing enough to prevent illegals from gaining entry to this country." 04-06 Ronstadt and Tancredo Debate New Arizona Immigration Law (CNN News) "Singer Linda Ronstadt and former Congressman Tom Tancredo debate the legality of Arizona's immigration law." 04-10 Schwarzenegger Supports Citizen Patrols (CBS News) "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who outraged some Mexican-American groups last week by calling for a closed border, praised the civilian volunteer Minuteman Project for its patrols to spot illegal immigrants." "The Republican governor accused the federal government of failing to control the border and said it encouraged illicit crossers by giving them access to water." "President Bush has denounced the volunteers as vigilantes." "Nativo V. Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association, called Schwarzenegger's comments Thursday 'nothing short of base racism.' " Senate Votes to Make English the National Language (Bloomberg.org) "The Senate voted to make English the 'national language' of the U.S. as part of legislation overhauling immigration policy." "The measure, approved by a vote of 63-34, directs the government to 'preserve and enhance' the role of English, without altering current laws that require some government documents and services be provided in other languages." 05-06 States Preempt Federal Government on Immigration (Christian Science Monitor) "Frustrated by federal inaction, state and local governments are passing laws at a record pace." 06-07 Study: Immigrants Are a Small Percent of Prison Population (Time.com) "Despite our melting-pot roots, Americans have often been quick to blame the influx of immigrants for rising crime rates. But new research released Monday shows that immigrants in California are, in fact, far less likely than U.S.-born Californians are to commit crime. While people born abroad make up about 35% of California's adult population, they account for only about 17% of the adult prison population, the report by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) showed. Indeed, among men ages 18 to 40 — the demographic most likely to be imprisoned — those born in the U.S. were 10 times more likely than foreign-born men to be incarcerated." 02-08 The Blame for Illegal Immigration (Fox News) "Tim Bueler, spokesman for the Minuteman Project, said the Mexican government is complicit in illegal immigration by offering Matricula Consular cards, IDs given to illegals that are accepted by financial institutions as proof of identification and allow illegal immigrants access to U.S. financial services." "Hair said stopping the flow of illegal immigrants would end the $50 billion annually in remittances by illegals in the United States to families at home, and that would also require countries to get serious about their own economies." 06-06 The Canteen Man of the US - Mexico Border (Christian Science Monitor) "Hoover founded Humane Borders, an interfaith group based in Tucson that set up the network of watering stations in the spring of 2000, to stem the rising number of deaths in the desert. Already that year, some 20 people had perished. One incident hit him particularly hard: A young mother who had given her last water to her infant. The child survived. She didn't." 01-07 Projects Sample Citizenship Test for Immigrants (MSNBC News) "In late 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test was introduced by immigration authorities. Could you pass it? The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview. Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones." 05-10

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