12/12

Today we had a substitute in class since Mr.Schick wasn't here. We went up to the substitutes classroom on the third floor. I worked on my essays just like most people and I finished my first essay and started on my second one. The substitute also let us listen to music on our phones which was really nice of him. 

12/11

Today in class we took a test on immigration and asylum. I felt that I did well on the test and thought it was fairly easy. There were a couple that I may have mixed up like immigration and migration, and then there was the word "Brain Drain" which I remember talking about it but I just couldn't remember what it meant. Anyway mid-terms are coming up next week and I am not ready for them at all so I really have to study this week.

12/10

Today in class we talked about how our textbooks are sometimes outdated and that can lead to getting wrong information. The book we were using had studies from the year 2010 which was almost 9 years ago. The studies talked about how people in the US used to not think of immigration as a big deal but we know now that it is a very prominent topic in today's media. It also criticized the European people for being against immigration because it is hanging their culture while back 100 years ago that's what they were doing to the US.

12/6

Passing of the 1921 act and the national origins act in 1924 by the US congress marked the end of unrestricted immigration in the US. Unauthorized immigrants are those who enter a country without proper documents. Characteristics of unauthorized immigrants in the US. Roughly 58% emigrate from Mexico. Of 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants nearly 1 million are children.

12/5

I was not in class because I was sick.

12/4

The US has around 80 million people who migrated to the US between the years 1820 to 2015, this includes 42 million who were alive in 2015. In 1790 the US population was only 3.9 million people, 950,000 of those people had immigrated to the colonies. In 1790 around 62% of the immigrant that came to the colonies were from Europe, and from that 45-50% came from The United Kingdom or The Republic of Ireland. Between 1820 and 1920 around 32 million people came to the US, and 90% of these immigrants were from Europe.

Class discussion blog

Yesterday we had the debate. Overall I thought that the debate went fairly well, a lot of people that usually don't talk in class got involved and I thought that was very good. I learned more about immigration in that class than I had in my entire life, and although my opinion didn't change I did learn a lot. One thing I learned was how Trump authorized military personal stationed at the border to use lethal fire of people start throwing things such as rocks, this in my mind is not a bad idea in some circumstances, but it needs to be the last resort in that situation, officers can not shoot someone to death if they throw a pebble it needs to be controlled and an absolute last resort. Another thing I learned about was the people being tear gassed. I had heard about this in the news but I didn't know much about it before we discussed it in class. In my opinion I thought that an excellent show of force, it showed authority and power, it was also a good move since it deterred the threat without any lethal consequences. One last thing that I learned from our debate was how big of an issue immigration really is. I thought that it was only thousands of people trying to cross the border but in fact it's millions. This changed my opinion on the situation from a being against open borders to being very strongly against open borders. The reason for this is very simple, safety and jobs. For one safety is the most important the people that could be getting in could be very dangerous and want to get in to hurt the country, secondly is our jobs we can't have unauthorized citizens be taking jobs from good hard working American citizens, we need to step up for our people, the American people and defend our country from the evil but be welcoming to the good.