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Immigration and Assimilation

Immigration and Assimilation. Anh Nguyen. Fact of Rate. Immigration played an important role in American history throughout the time. Number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, has increased recently, remarkably during the 20 th century

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Immigration and Assimilation

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  1. Immigration and Assimilation Anh Nguyen

  2. Fact of Rate • Immigration played an important role in American history throughout the time. • Number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, has increased recently, remarkably during the 20th century • America becomes a big melting pot with various cultures from many different countries. • These immigrants may affect American society in some ways. • Varying in ethnicity

  3. Issues • The number of undocumented immigrants in the country has increased more than 40 percent since 2000. Every year, more than a half-million people come illegally or illegally overstay their visas • Obama’s plan • Create secure border • Improve immigration system • Remove incentives to enter illegally • Bring people out of shadows: give them chances to study English and become citizens • Work with Mexico to decrease illegal immigrants

  4. Argument: American Views • Blame immigrants for population outgrowth in recent decades • Immigrants’ cultures change American culture negatively • Being seen as burden to national economic and social downfall today. • Mess up order of society Miley and her friends are pulling eyes to an Asian, which was socially blamed for this racially offensive gesture and setting a bad sample to teens.

  5. Argument: Immigrants • Seeking equality and supports in community • Struggling with bilingual education and biculturalism • Having languages and culture problem to be assimilated • Hardly accepted by native-born Americans • Being treated unfairly in workplace and public places

  6. Argument: Immigrants

  7. Is American Still Be the Melting Pot? • The United States need to retain its title of a melting pot in order to remain vibrant • These people are from the countries across the planet who have come here, brought their beliefs and traditions, and assimilated by trying to learn the new language and culture. • “We must calibrate the flow of immigrants into the US to the needs of the economy, mindful that immigration has adversely affected low-income American citizens, disproportionately African-American and Hispanic. But the flow must also be calibrated to the country's capacity to assure acculturation of the immigrants” (Lawrence, “The end of multiculturalism”)

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