US-Mexico+Migration+Unit+-+Lesson+4


 * MEDIA INFORMATION:**
 * NPR clip: securing the border


 * GROUP PROJECT INFORMATION:**
 * **Group 1: Worker visa allowances**
 * __Links to information__
 * State Department: information on employment-based visas
 * Immigration Law Offices: information on visa quotas
 * __Essential questions__
 * 1) How many visas are allowed each year?
 * 2) How would a change in the number of visas allowed affect immigration?
 * __Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group1@gmail.com
 * **Group 2: Family visa allowances**
 * __Links to information__
 * State Department: information on family-based visas
 * Immigration Law Offices: information on visa quotas
 * __Essential questions__
 * 1) How many visas are allowed each year?
 * 2) How would a change in the number of visas allowed affect immigration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group2@gmail.com
 * **Group 3: Refugee and asylum allowances**
 * __Links to information__
 * Migration Policy Institute: number of individuals seeking asylum (look for the United States at the bottom of the page)
 * State Department: proposed refugee ceilings (look at the table on page 6)
 * __Essential questions__
 * 1) How many refugees/asylees submit an application to migrate into the United States each year?
 * 2) How many refugees/asylees are allowed to immigrate into the United States each year?
 * 3) How would a change in the number of refugees/asylees affect immigration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group3@gmail.com
 * **Group 4: Border security measures**
 * __Links to information__
 * Wikipedia: READ ID Act (2005) (look at the section on license and ID requirements)
 * Migration Information Source: Migration control and enforcement
 * __Essential questions__
 * 1) What are a few different ways that the United States government can increase or decrease border security?
 * 2) How does more border security influence immigration? How about less border security?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group4@gmail.com
 * **Group 5: Access to social services**
 * __Links to information__
 * Wikipedia: Prop 187 (full text of Prop 187 found here)
 * DREAM Act
 * __Essential questions__
 * What are a few different ways that the United States government can restrict access to social services (e.g. education) to immigrants?
 * How would changes in access to social services among immigrants affect immigration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group5@gmail.com
 * **Group 6: Restrictions on employers**
 * __Links to information__
 * USA Today article on immigration policies that affect employers
 * Washington Post article on Arizona policy
 * New York Times article on Arizona policy
 * __Essential questions__
 * What does government policy say about employers hiring of undocumented workers (illegal immigrants)?
 * How do US employer regulations (these policies) affect immigration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group6@gmail.com
 * **Group 7: Tourist visa restrictions**
 * __Links to information__
 * NPR News Story (about "visa overstayers" who come on a tourist visa then stay even after it expires)
 * Wikipedia: Illegal immigration and visa overstay
 * State Department: Visa Denials
 * __Essential questions__
 * In what ways can the government use policy regarding tourist visas (to whom and how they are issued or denied) to change immigration?
 * How might these changes actually influence immigration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group7@gmail.com
 * **Group 8: Domestic policing**
 * __Links to information__
 * New York Times article on Arizona policy
 * Wikipedia: READ ID Act (2005)
 * __Essential questions__
 * 1) In what ways can the government change policing (monitoring, finding, arresting) of illegal immigrants in the United States?
 * 2) How might changes in policing within the United States affect migration?
 * __ Google Docs sign-in name__: verbon.group8@gmail.com