Citizenship and Citizenship and Equal JusticeEqual Justice

Citizenship and Citizenship and Equal JusticeEqual Justice

Chapter 14Chapter 14

Great Seal

All Seeing Eye

God has favored our undertaking

                                               

  

A new order has begun

Out of many, one

Great Wall of Mexico  

                   

I. Nation of Immigrants • Everyone except Native Americans

immigrated into the U.S. at sometime • 2000 – Mexican Americans around 9%

of the U.S. population • 2006 – 20% of the people were not

born in the United States• California – Largest number of

immigrants of any state

This is My Country

Ellis Island

A. Immigrants and Aliens

• Immigrants – People who move into a country intending to live there permanently

•Aliens – Person living in a country where they are not citizens

B. Types of Aliens

• 1) Resident Alien – Person from a foreign nation that resides permanently in the U.S. – Immigrants are these until they become

citizens

• 2) Nonresident Alien – Person from a foreign country who expects to stay in U.S. for a short time– Tourist, reporters

• 3) Enemy Alien – Citizen of a nation the U.S. is at war with – POWs

• 4) Refugees – Person fleeing to escape persecution and danger

• 5) Illegal Aliens – Person who enters the U.S. without a legal permit– Around 11 million illegal immigrants in U.S.

today

C. Alien’s Rights

• Given rights outlined in the Bill of Rights

• Allowed to attend public schools for free

• Required to pay some taxes and follow the law

• Cannot vote, are exempt from military service, and serving on juries

D. Immigration Policies

• 1882 – Congress regulated immigration for the first time

• Chinese Exclusion Act – Restricted the immigration of Chinese immigrants

• Mainly based on racists beliefs

E. Benefits of Immigration• Most immigrants take jobs that the majority of

Americans refuse to do • Allows Americans to purse higher education

and have higher paying jobs• Important agricultural labors in the Southwest• According to an article in the Omaha World

Herald – November 2008 – Nebraska would lose 33 million dollars per month if no one immigrated into our state