Traveling Ban

Group project by Eric, Xiaoyu, Victor, Shen

Introduction:

After Trump became the  presidents, he made a lot of changes from economics to militories. He made numerous questionable decisions last few years. One of it was the traveling ban. Traveling ban had affected numerous people all around the world. There were families from different countries cannot reunited, as the traveling ban didn’t allow them to enter the United States. Although part of them have been given a visa to enter the United States, the travel ban ignored the visa and ban them from entering.

• These are the places that were targeted by the ban

• People are so against this ban

• This shows Muslim voice about the traveling ban

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38781302

This article talks about the policies of the travel ban. The 8 countries got affected the most is Iran, Iraq, , Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen,

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/us/real-people-affected-by-travel-ban/index.html

This article talks about how Trump’s travel ban impact individuals. The author gave four really detail examples of four people who got impacted by the travel ban. Because of Trump’s policy, it is impacting families near and far.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/immigration-ban-stories/

This article talks about how upset people are when they got treated as terrorist. The people who got interviewed wanted to show how much disappointed they are with Trump’s travel ban policies.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004900820/protests-against-travel-ban-sweep-country.html

This video is about many thousand people gathered across the country to denounce President Trump’s travel ban

Vocabulary

Travel ban- President Trump signed an executive order that immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations out for three months. The ban affected countries are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

Relative immigration - To obtaining legal status of the United States through relatives of American citizens with blood relationship.

Executive order- A order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.

Federal judge- In the United States, the title of a federal judge is a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with the Article 3 of the US Constitution.

Litigation- Refers to the process of submitting or responding to a complaint through the court

DACA

Larry

Taffa

Nancy

Yanling

  DACA(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)-Also known as Dreamers     

Summary

For this project, we read “DACA Deadline for US Immigrants Arrives with Less Urgency” by the Associated Pressmarch, the article “Timeline: DACA, the Trump administration and a government shutdown” and the article “Immigrant Who Came to U.S as Children Fear Deportation Under Trump” by Julian Preston and Jennifer Mediva. After reading these articles, we can notice that DACA is a law that concerns kids that came illegally into the US with their parents and are now establish in the country. DACA was created by Obama’s administration, and aimed to protect these kids against a possible deportation. However, Trump’s administration tried to cancel that law and retour young undocumented immigrants back to their motherland. Facing uncertain future, young undocumented immigrants were anxious and sad, and they made effort to fight for legal status. They moved to rebel, and they protested. In addition, rights group, universities as well as city government made a joint effort to shelter young undocumented immigrants. Since the Executive, the Congress and the Judicial held different opinions toward DACA, federal government entered its shutdown in January 20, 2018, and the future of young undocumented immigrants remained uncertain.

Presentation

Part One: A Short introduction to your topic

DACA is a burning issue in the actual US. It is a migration law that concerned kids who came illegally in the US with their family. It was established by Obama’s administration to protect these kids against a possible deportation. However, Trump’s administration appealed to cancel the law to enforce his foreign politics strategy. Trump’s administration gave  young undocumented immigrants a deadly blow. Anxious and sad, young undocumented immigrants protested for legal civil rights.

Part Two: Images related to your topic

DACA:Immigrants protesting for their rights (1).

DACA:Immigrants protesting for their rights (2) - Against extradition.

Part Three: Links to the articles and videos and a short annotation

Summary Of A Passport Stamp Gives Dreamers Hope as the Trump Era Looms

  DACA referred to deferred action for childhood arrival. It was created by Obama in June 2012, but Trump wanted to end the program . There was a federal program which called “ advance parole” started in 2012, which allowed young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States temporarily and work legally. It also allowed them to apply to travel abroad for humanitarian, education or employment reasons, and come back United States legally. Many universities helped DACA to apply the advance parole. After they go abroad and come back legally that they will have a blue stamp in their passports, and it is an opportunity to have green card if they had blue stamps. They didn’t want to miss any opportunities. 22,340 DACA have been approved to advance parole until December 31, 2015. There were three people who were DACA applied the “advance parole”. One was Jenifer Guzman Gonzaga who came to United States at four from Mexico. She attended a conference that she had two days to go to Mexico to visit with family and came back legally because of the advance parole. One was Israel Sanchez who moved to New York at two. He created a course to try to help DACA to reconnect with their home country. The other one was Ivan Guzman. He hadn’t went  back Mexico for twenty years. He and Jenifer Guzman Gonzaga didn’t feel like they belong any country. However, they have lived in United States when they were children. Therefore, the United States is their home. They hope the DACA program can be continued.

Video Summary

The article DACA ‘dreamers’ fear nightmare immigration policy is about undocumented young immigrants’ anxiety under Trump administration that called to cancel DACA to deport them immediately. Some held the idea that undocumented young immigrants did effort to make the country better while opponents argued that undocumented young immigrants occupied resources such as job opportunities.

Part Four: Most important vocabulary for understanding your articles and videos

1.Sanctuary: noun. A peaceful place that is safe and provides protection, especially for people who are in danger.

 Eg: Is it on the island that they have found their sanctuary？

2. DACA: deferred action for childhood arrivals.

3. Deport: verb. To make someone leave a country and return to the country they came from, especially because they do not have a legal right to stay.

 Eg: The United States deported many Mexicans.

4. Impasse: noun. A situation in which it is impossible to continue with a discussion or plan because the people involved can not agree.

 Eg: Technology could help us out of this impasse.

5. Rescind: verb. To officially end a law, or change a decision or agreement.

 Eg: The government rescinded the useless laws.

Article link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/nyregion/a-passport-stamp-gives-dreamers-hope-as-the-trump-era-looms.html

Video link:

https://video.wpt.org/video/daca-dreamers-fear-nightmare-immigration-policy-1486772275/

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Arvin, Jay, Ronaldo

ESL 100

April 23, 2019

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Introduction:

Our Topic is the Chinese Exclusion Act. In the 1880s, the federal government believed that the entry of a large number of Chinese people endangered good order in certain areas. So in the spring of 1882, the US Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, signed by President Chester A. Arthur. The bill imposed a 10-year ban on Chinese labor immigrants. In the years that followed, Congress adjusted some systems to regulate Chinese immigration. We will discuss these systems. We will also discuss the case of Wong Kim Ark in 1892 and the reporter's interview report on Wong Kim Ark's great-granddaughter Sandra Wong.

                                                Vocabulary

1. Exclusive: excluding or not admitting other things. - synonyms complete, full, entire, whole, total.
2. Act: A bill which has passed through the various legislative steps required for it and which has become law. - synonyms law, bill
3. Labor: work, especially hard physical work. - effort, work, employment
4. Immigration: the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. - defector, deplored , evacuee .
5. Residence: a person's home; the place where someone lives. - home, flat, apartment.
6. Restricting: put a limit on; keep under control. - limit, regulate, control
7. Barring: except for; if not for - accepting, bar, exclusion

1.      Link to our sources

http://www.history.com/topics/chinese-exclusion-act/videos ( Our group found most of the information about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 in this link from National Geographic)

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/02/445346769/he-famously-fought-for-his-u-s-citizenship-where-are-his-descendants-now ( In this link we were able to know more about Won Kim Ark's and his great-granddaughter Sandra. Also, there is an audio available on the site in case you would like to hear the audio)

U.S Border detained children - Yuan, Loan/Lilly, Candy and Anaya.

Separated Families at the U.S. Border/Detained Children

Let's watch our group video to see a summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1smz9DeX45o

Building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. to stop illegal immigration in the U.S. was one of the most important issue of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He told the U.S. citizen that Mexico would pay for the wall, but that would not happen. Illegal immigration rate across the U.S. and Mexico border has been retained at the lowest point for recent years. Trump claims that the illegal immigrants are smuggling drugs, and they are criminals; only few of them may be good people. The facts are that many illegal emigrant into the U.S. are families with children to escape poverty, drug cartels and threat from gangs in their own country in order to pursue a better life.  Even though there is policy to prevent children being separated from their parents and detained, Trump and Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Attorney General, created a ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy. Children have been separated from their parents, some kept in fence - like cages, some sent to nearby asylum centers and others sent to foster homes as far away as New York state. By March 2019 there were still tens of thousands of children separated from their parents, several have even died due to unaddressed medical issues.

Desperate

Uncomfortable living condition

Rebellion

Why?

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzKpCHzHag

Video: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration's
policy of separating immigrant children from their families.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Vk3yCvnB0

Video: The Trump administration insists that separating families is not a policy, but a
requirement of enforcing the law to prosecute adults who cross the border illegally.

https://www.haasjr.org/perspectives/joint-statement-on-family-separation-and-detention?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4qvlBRDiARIsAHme6othqKl1NVC_qe-97ef_-RYEclWqHOeASJVntrEicx1JwsvhVIyQj4MaAhFTEALw_wcB

Article: Many people disagree with the separation policy and the detention. More than 200
institutions sign a statement in support of children and families seeking refuge in the
United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUX6Mw2Xt9U&t=19s

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-21/donald-trump-sign-executive-order-ending-family-separation/9892042

Important Vocabulary

Word	Definition	Word Family
Detained	Keep someone from proceeding, hold back Imprisoned	Detain, detained, detaining detainee, detainer, detainment, detains
Treacherous	Disloyal, unfaithful, underhanded, indirect	Treachery, treacherously, treacherousness
Treks	To make one’s way arduously Emigration	Trekker, trekked, trekking
Asylum	Shelter, refuge, nursery
Zero tolerance	A policy of giving the most severe punishment possible to every person who commits a crime No indulgence or endurance
Rollback	Cause to retreat or withdraw, reduction
Detention	Detainment, confinement Act of keeping in custody	Detent, Détente,
Rescind	Cancel, Revoke, Undo	Rescindable, Rescinded, Rescindment, Rescinding
Stanch	Stop the flow of a liquid	Stanched, Stanching, Stanchion, Stanches
Deter	Prevent, Stop, Discourage	Determent, Deterrence
Prosecute	Put on a trial, try in a court, file a legal action	Prosecuted, Prosecution, Prosecuting
Custody	Detention, Confinement, Supervision, Guardianship
Extortion	Blackmail, use of intimidation or force in order to obtain something (money, information, right)	Extortive, Extorted, Extorting, Extortionate, Extortioner, Extortionist