Unit Essential Question:
What obligation does America have to those who enter our country seeking a better life?
What obligation does America have to those who enter our country seeking a better life?
"Build the Wall!"“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you are. When you find out, you also realize there are places you can no longer go, things you can no longer do, words you can no longer say.”
P.S. Baber (Cassie Draws the universe) |
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those in favor of the wall |
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those against the wall |
What History Teaches Us About Walls
Donald Trump may want to take note: World history is full of examples of engineering
thwarted by goal-oriented rank amateurs.
Donald Trump may want to take note: World history is full of examples of engineering
thwarted by goal-oriented rank amateurs.
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War.
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Young couple peeks over the Berlin Wall.
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Video: What if you were an Immigrant?
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Video: What Kind of Asian
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Video: I’m Mexican. Does that change your assumptions about me?
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Songs of Immigration and Migration
Songs: Pro Immigration
"Follow Me"
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"Aliens"
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"Immigration Man"
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"Running"
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Songs: Anti- Immigration
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"The Illegal Immigrants Song"
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Video: Jorge Ramos interviews Jared Taylor
Video from Fusion - Journalist Jorge Ramos interviews Jared Taylor, the 'white supremacist', editor of the publication American Renaissance
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Video: Anti-Immigration Rally
Today we see opposing forces of the immigration issue go at each other with only the police between them. This face off is seen by President George W. Bush from the Whitehouse windows. (April 2007)
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Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which used the Census of 1910. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians, Slavs and Eastern European Jews.[1][2][3] In addition, it severely restricted the immigration of Africans and banned the immigration of Arabs and Asians.
U.S. vs. Canadian Immigration