November 7th- 11th

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Mon- Continue Immigration

Tues-  Immigration

Wed- Election

Thurs- Politics

Fri- Progressive Impact Due

Illegal Immigration Statistics

• 11.4 million illegal immigrants
  • Mexico - 59%
  • El Salvador - 6% 
  • Guatemala - 5%
  • Honduras - 3%
  • Philippines -3%
• Top States with unauthorized Immigrants 
  • California- 25%
  • Texas - 16%
  • Florida - 6%
  • New York - 5%
  • Illinois - 5%
• 61% immigrant 25 - 44 yrs old 
• 662,483 unauthorized immigrants are apprehended 
  • 64% are from Mexico
  • 438,421 people are removed from the US
    • Sent back 
      • Mexico- 72%
      • Guatemala- 11%
      • Honduras - 8%
• Nativism-
  • People that only like the people that are from where they are from
• WASP-
  • White Anglo-Saxon Protestant  
    • KKK - Anti- Black or Foreigners
• Old vs. New Immigrants 
  • Old Immigrants
    • From North or Western Europe 
    • Protestant 
    • Literate skilled 
    • Came as Families 
    • Quick to Fit in 
    • Knew of Democracy 
    • Weren't super poor 
    • White
  • New Immigrants
    
    • Southern or eastern Europe 
    • not protestant - Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox 
    • Illiterate and unskilled 
    • Came to help family
    • Clique-ish
    • Radical 
    • Poor 
    • Darker skinned
• How to start immigrating 
  • Step One- Leaving Home
    • Common for them to come over individually
    • Save up to bring other loved ones here
    • 1900 -1910, 95% percent came over to re-unite with family
    • 1901 - 40% - 65% came on prepaid tickets to come over 
  • Step Two- On Board of the Ship
    • Tickets to America - $30
    • 3 Classes 
      • First -
        • Treated like Queens and Kings 
        • Checked quickly over 
      • Middle-
        • Still treated well 
        • Checked quickly over 
      • Steerage 
        • Poorly Treated 
          • Sickly 
          • Bunks 
          • Bottom of the boat
          • 10% died 
          • Unsanitary 
          • Dark 
          • Bad Smelling
        • Ellis Island Checks 
          • Hard Physical and Questioning Checks 
        • Passed time by Cards, Dancing, and singing.
    • Took 1 week to a month to get to America
  • Step Three- Insepection- Lowest Class
    • Inspected for - 
      • Cholera 
      • Plague 
      • Smallpox 
      • Typhoid Fever 
      • Yellow Fever 
      • Scarlet Fever 
      • Measles 
      • Diptheria 
    • Immigrants would be deported
    • 20% would be detained from medical treatment or a legal hearing 
    • 80% were free to go after a few hours 
    • Only 2% failed to be admitted 
• Ellis Island 
  • A place of Hope