Essay Writing Day Without Mr. Schick

     Today, Mr. Schick wasn't here and his room was pretty cold, so we went to the substitute's room on the third floor. I chose option A for my essay and picked the countries Japan, Spain, and Chad. I finished my first and second paragraphs, and began work on the third. I am not looking forward to exam week, since I do not feel prepared at all. I hate having extra work the week before exams, I feel that we should be given less homework this week to have time to study for exams. Also, why does honors have to do two essays, I have been told by multiple non-honors classes that they do the same exact things that honors does.

Test Day

  Today we took a test on migration, and thats really about it. The test had questions about the types of migration and other key words that we learned. I feel pretty good about it, and I think I only got a couple wrong. Although it would have been helpful to study a bit more. After the test we were allowed to start working on our blogs, but soon after everyone was done the test we had our assembly. It was a relatively festive assembly, and i'm just glad that all of the classes were shortened today. Exam week is next week, and I feel swamped with work so I'm going to end the blog now.

Notes on Illegal Immigrants and Other Things Relating to Migration

     Some motives for a person to enter the United States illegally are the employment opportunities, family reunification, and a better way of life. Some residents of Northern Mexico wish for more leniency towards migrants, from the U.S., while some of those living in the south wish to lower the number of migrants from Guatemala into Mexico harshly. Some U.S. citizens want more effective border patrol, but do not wish to spend more money on it. Some other citizens recognize that Mexican immigrants take jobs that no citizen would take, therefore they support immigrants gaining citizenship. Some people believe that if law enforcement was allowed to check anyone's documents for any reason, it would infringe upon peoples' civil rights. More than one hundred locations in the U.S. strongly support the rights of illegal immigrants, and these places are known as "Sanctuary Cities".

Can you believe it? It's more notes on Migration!

    I'm just going to get straight into the notes today so... Countries adopted selective immigration policies after the Quota act of 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924. These laws marked the end of unrestricted policies. Family reunification makes up for 3/4 of immigrants in the U.S., and skilled workers make up 1/4 of immigrants. Diversity in migration is when a country that doesn't send many migrants sends some. The source country for 58% of immigration in the U.S. is Mexico. Out of the 11.2 million illegal immigrants 1 million are children. In 2010 35% of adult migrants had been in the U.S. for at least 15 years. Texas and California have the largest number of unauthorized immigrants.

Notes on Migrants and other things

   Today we were given another worksheet to take notes on. Transportation improvements have diminished the importance of environmental obstacles the block migration. Today the major obstacle a migrant faces is politics. The U.N. classifies countries by four types of immigration policies, the first is maintaining the current level of immigration, the second is increasing the level, the third decreased the level, and the fourth has no policy. The number of people allowed to immigrate to the U.S. is the most its ever been, but the amount of people want to come is greater.

Changing U.S. Immigration Notes

    Today Mr. Schick wasn't in class, so we were assigned to take notes on a hand out from awhile ago. 80 million people migrated to the United States between 1820 and 2015, including 42 million people alive in 2015. There are three main eras of immigration and they are colonial settlement in 17th and 18th centuries, mass European migration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Asian and Latin American immigration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The population of the U.S. in 1790 was about 3.9 million. Between the years of 1820 and 1920, 32 million people immigrated to the United States. Germany had sent the most immigrants at one time; about 7.2 million. Immigration dropped greatly in the 1930's and 1940's because of the world war, and The Great Depression. The number increased steadily through the 50's and later skyrocketed. Mexico passed the number of immigrants from Germany in 2006.

Class Discussion and Things

   Yesterday we had a class discussion about asylum. The discussion was led by a short podcast about the pros and cons of Trump's plan for asylum in the United States. I feel as if the podcast led the debate instead of us, but that is just my opinion. Honestly, I didn't learn anything new from my classmates, except for some of their opinions. I learned two things from the podcast itself though. I learned that Trump changed the policy that allowed victims of domestic abuse to be granted asylum. Also, Trump limited the number of people who can apply for asylum in a day. Trump limited the number of people who can be granted asylum a day to thirty. I hope to have more discussions like these in the future.