I forgot to do my blog yesterday. I think I forgot because on Friday we went to Gettysburg and on Saturday we were doing winter cleaning. I am happy that I will not get points off for doing the incorrect format. I would have been mad if hours of work would have been pointless because I incorrectly formatted a paper. I am also happy with my test grade and was surprised I got a 100, I thought I would at least get one wrong. I think my essays are very well written and I believe  that they are the best essays I have ever written. I am currently in the library studying for exams and grammar is proving to be very difficult. I will hopefully be able to do well because I know everything else very well. I am also not to worried about biology but I am still going to review in case I forgot a topic.

Today in class we worked our essays. I am already done my first essay so I was able to finish the first two paragraphs of my second essay in class. I reread the format for the paragraphs of the essays and I do not understand how I am am able to do option A in the correct format were you have a introduction ,then state 3 points, then a conclusion paragraph. Option a asks for you to state the migration policies for three separate countries. I described the policies for the three countries in each of the three body paragraphs. I do not know of a better way to do this so I hope I do not get points deducted off my exam score because of this.

I think I did very well on the test. I always become super worried while studying for these tests and I was up until 1:00 studying for it. It payed of though and I am starting to relies that you would do good on these tests as long as you pay attention in class. I have finally finished one of the essays and I am finding it much more difficult to do the essays then I originally thought. In my opinion, none of the questions really grabbed my attention so I am not really interested in what I am writing. It would be interesting for the final exams if we could make our own essay question so we would be more passionate on what we are writing. It might also be more fun to grade for you because would be able to hear everyone's opinions and the essays would probably have more content. I found writing my essay that I was struggling to get it to five paragraphs. For peer editing tomorrow, I will most likely only have one done. I also have to do my essay for English and that is due tomorrow. I might be able to finish both but I do not want to get so little sleep two knights in a row. I also have to study for a biology test that is tomorrow. I am not to worried about it but I am still going to go over my notes, so finishing both essays by tomorrow is unlikely.

• Mexico's border with the U.S.
• Views from U.S recognize motives that compel unauthorized immigrants to enter illegally.
• Employment opportunities
• Family reunification
• better way of life
• View of mexico is more complex
• Residents of norther mexico wish for compassion yo be shown to unauthorized immigrants
• Residents of southern mexico are less tolerant because the number of immigrants entering Mexico from Guatemala
• Immigration concerns in the U.S.
• Border patrol-
• They would like more effective border patrol but would not want to spend the money necessary to have that
• workplace- 
• Most recognize that immigrants take jobs from U.S. citizens, but they understand most citizens wouldn't take the jobs so they support the path to the U.S citizenship for these immigrants.
• U.S citizens favor letting law enforcement officials stop and verify the legal status of everyone, but they fear civil rights will be infringed upon of U.S citizens, a a result of racial profiling.
• Local Initiatives
• Polls suggest U.S Citizens believe unauthorized immigration is a pressing matter but should only be dealt with at the federal level not the local.
• Many were apposed to Arizona's 2010 that obligated foreigners to carry a proof if citizenship with them at all times.
• Over 100 localized cities across the nation support additional rights for immigrants called sanctuary cities.
• Immigration Concerns in Europe
• Population growth in Europe is fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans.
• Biggest fear is that the host country’s culture will be lost, because immigrants-
• adhere to different religions
• speak different languages
• practice different food and cultural habits
• Hostility to immigrants has become a central plank of some political parties in many European countries.
• Immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs.
• practice different food and other cultural habits
• Immigration Concerns in Europe
• Population growth in Europe is fueled by immigration from other regions of the world, a trend disliked by many Europeans.
• Biggest fear is that the host country’s culture will be lost, because immigrants:
• adhere to different religions
• speak different languages
• practice different food and other cultural habits
• Hostility to immigrants has become a central plank of some political parties in many European countries.
• Immigrants blamed for crime, unemployment rates, and high welfare costs.

• countries have adopted selective immigration policies
• Preference shown for specific employment placement and family reunification
• Passing of the quota act in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924 by the U.S congress marked the end of unrestricted immigration to the U.S
• More seek admission to the U.S than is permitted by the quotas thus preferences are shown toward

1. Family Reunification
2. About 3/4 of immigrants
3. skilled workers
4. approximately 1/4 of immigrants

• Some countries alleged preferences for skilled workers contribute to brain drain- a term for disproportionate amount of highly skilled and intelligent citizens migrating away from sending countries.
• Unauthorized immigrants are those who enter countries without proper documents
• Characteristics of undocumented immigrants in the U.S
• source country
• roughly 58% emigrate from mexico
• Children
• Of estimated 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants, nearly 1 million are children.
• Unauthorized immigrants have given birth to 4.5 million children on U.S soil making the children U.S citizens.
• A illegal immigrant has a baby, that baby is called an anchor baby
• Years in the U.S
• in 2010, 35% of adults had been in the U.S for at least Fifteen years
• Distribution
• Texas and California have the largest amount of Illegal immigrants.

• Most countries have adopted selective immigration policies for certain immigrants.
• The U.N. classifies countries according to 4 types of immigration policies-
• maintain the current level of immigration
• increase the level 
• reduce the level
• no policy 
• 21 countries seek more immigrants
• 32 want less
• 116 want to maintain current level
• 25 do not have a policy
• 67 of those countries encourage highly skilled immigrants
• 14 of those countries want better family unification
• U.N found policies to increase immigration in 18 countries
• Many who cannot enter the United States enter illegally
• Those who do so are entering without proper documents and thus are called unauthorized immigrants
• Unauthorized immigrant is the term preferred by academic observers including the authoritative Pew Hispanic Center as a neutral term
• Undocumented immigrant is the term preferred by some of the groups that advocate for more rights for these individuals
• Illegal alien is the term preferred by some groups that favor tougher restrictions and enforcement of immigration laws
• In other words, the number of unauthorized immigrants entering the United States is now less than the number leaving
• The era of unrestricted immigration to the United States ended when Congress passed the quota act in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924.
• 12 million immigrants came to the United States between 1892 and 1955
• Ellis Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National monument in 1965
• New York and New Jersey were arguing whether Ellis Island belonged to them.  New York won.
• Quotas for individual countries were replaced with hemisphere quotas.  
• The global quota of 290,000 was set including a maximum of 20,000 per country.
• 1990 - the global quota was raised to 700,000
• The quota does not apply to refugees who are admitted if they are judged by genuine refugees
• Also admitted without limit are spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens.
• Brain drain is large scale emigration by talented people
• Researchers, doctors and other professionals migrate to countries where they make a better use of their abilities
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• United states is inhabited overwhelmingly by direct dependents from immigrants.
• 80 million people migrated to the US between 1820 and 2015
• US had 3 main eras of immigration

1. Colonial settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Mass European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
3. Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

• U.S. population in 1790 was 3.9 million, 950000 of them were people who migrated to the colonies.
• 1790- 62 percent of immigrants came from Europe 50 percent of that came from modern day U.K. or Ireland.
• Most Africans are descendants forced to migrate to the western hemisphere. 360000 Africans were living in the U.S.
• In 1808, 250000 more were brought over
• between 1905 and 1920, 32 million people migrated to the U.S. 90% of them migrated from Europe
• 1840s and 1850s- annual immigration jumped to 200000. 3/4ths of all immigrants were from Ireland or Germany
• in the 1880s, immigration increase to 500000 per year.
• 1905-1914- immigration increases to 1 million per year.
• Immigration in the U.S. dropped in the 1930s and 40s because of the depression and ww2.
• around 13 million Latin Americans have migrated to america in the past half century, and 7 million Asians
• Mexico passed Germany in 2006 for immigration because of undocumented immigrants
• Immigrants were lured by economic opportunity and social advancements in the U.S.

I think the discussion went very well. There were many different points of view ad both sides brought up very good points. Although I did not change sides of the discussion, some points were brought up that I did not know. I was not aware of things like the limit of Asylum, where 30 people a day could enter asylum per day. I always thought it was just halted until the immigration problem was fixed. Was kind of off topic of the main discussion but the point Colin made on the different sides of news are completely opposite and you can't trust either side. This could be a completely different class discussion for another day. Back to the point, both sides had strong arguments and no side had a clear winner. I like the idea of a compromise between both sides. A lot of the time a compromise os the best answer because everyone is happy, but I do not think a compromise is possible because of how much hate is between the two political parties. So some points that were brought up that stuck out to me was that domestic violence should not be a rule in asylum because it is not the government of the country's fault. There will always be victims of domestic violence in every country including America. There can also be false claims of domestic violence and the immigrants could get in for free, which is not fair for legal immigrants who had to go through a long, expensive process to get into America. In the podcast it said that there is now immigrant screening. This is a very good idea in my opinion because as explained in the discussion, people from Isis or MS 13 could have previously got into this country after they applied for asylum under a fake domestic violence claim. Now they will be checked to see if they have any criminal background to keep the country safe. Most people applying for asylum are not criminals and would not murder someone, or rob a store, but some would, and a little good can't make up for a lot of harm. I do not know many names in my class but I felt like Colin, Trent, Sean, the girl who sits in the front middle and the girl who sits in the back left made very good points.