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Sarah Muroski, Victoria Bellmay, Kristen Stigliano

Big Idea: Hispanic Illegal Immigrants in America

Essential Question: Why is Hispanic illegal immigration a major problem in America?

Challenge: Improve the Hispanic illegal immigrant problem in America.

Guiding Questions: 1. What kind of jobs are they taking from Americans? 2. What are the benefits to becoming a citizen, rather than being illegal? 3. What steps should the American Government take to secure the Mexican border? 4. What are the benefits to the illegal immigration law in Arizona? 5. Why are illegal immigrants choosing not to become legal?

Guiding Activites: 1. Use the internet to research immigration increase rates. 2. Use the New York Times archive to find out details on the Arizona Law passed this year. 3. Define the pros and cons of immigration laws in America. 4. Look up discussions with experts about this issue on iTunes U.

Guiding Resources: 1. [] (Live numbers on immigrants). 2. [] (Pros and cons of Arizona Immigration Law). 3. [] (Description of Arizona Immigration Law). 4. [] (Arizona Immigration Law) 5. [] (Border Issue details) 6. [] (National Geographic television show that goes into the Border Issue, from both the perspective of the American Border Patrol and the people who have crossed over)

[|The Cost of Illegal Immigration.mp3]: Podcast found on iTunes; Cost of Illegal Immigration by Michael Savage

Solution/Action:

Arizona Immigration Law: Sarah Muroski Arizona has always been the gateway for illegal immigrants, from Mexico, entering the country. The Arizona Immigration Law (Arizona Law SB 1070) has been strongly protested by many because they believe it is “racial profiling”, but Ron White, a resident in Arizona says “I also don’t feel it is racial profiling. You are going to look different if you are an alien and cops know”(Archibold 2). Illegal immigrants that live in Arizona claim that this new law will rip their families apart and they think that it might actually hurt the economy of America. They also complain that it is hard for them to make ends meet because more and more companies are requesting to see social security cards (Archibold 1). Life is hard for the illegal immigrants everywhere, but in America, it is illegal for them to be here and Arizona is the only state that has taken steps to try solving the problem. There have also been complaints from residents of Arizona about crime from illegal immigrants. Kent Lowis retired to playing golf and claims, “They vandalize the golf course, throwing flags in the ponds. Burglaries. There are too many immigrants. I get tired of seeing all these people standing around”(Archibold 2). All in all, illegal immigrants are breaking the law and destroying the country’s economy. The people of America should see that the Arizona Immigration Law is not racial profiling, it is protecting America.

Economy: Kristen Stigliano

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Illegal immigration is detrimental to America’s economy. Many illegal aliens are coming to American and living off of our hard work. In America now there are about 23,001,825 illegal immigrants and about 22,414,176 are from Mexico. In our public school today there are 5,165,591 children whose parents are illegal immigrants. Yes, in some cases these children are legal US citizens if they were born in America, but the parents are not paying taxes which means they children are going to school on the taxpayers’ money. Many of these children are called anchor babies because in the US if a child is born in the US they are considered a citizen of America and their parents automatically become citizens. There are currently 5,080,306 anchor babies in the US. The US had spent over $117,483,132, 218 since 1996. In social services America has spent over $397,472,811,205 on illegal immigrants alone. The US has spent over $28,323,455,314 on illegal immigrants that have been incarcerated. When illegal immigrants come to America many take jobs that the average America does not want, but recently there are 11,792,749 illegal immigrants in skilled jobs that with America’s economy how it is, they are taking valuable jobs away from unemployed Americans. All stats were taken from []======

Education: Victoria Bellmay

The illegal alien problem is such a large problem, as explained in the two paragraphs above. The biggest way to get people to want to take a part of something and make a change is through educating them. By educating the citizens of the United States, we can all find out just how important it is to take care of this situation. Most people don’t realize how large the problem really is, it’s almost at the point of becoming a crisis. With an average of 981 Hispanic illegal immigrants crossing through a section of the border that’s only 21 miles long per day, imagine the amount of aliens coming through per day throughout the entire border! ([]). Maybe the solution is simple enough as teaching children in school at a young age about the problem, or even to teenagers who don’t know the extent of the situation. By integrating the idea that we need to find new ways to stop the immigration crisis into their thinking, when they are adults maybe they’ll decide to get involved in government and try to find the solution to this issue. Or maybe even local government officials can go into middle schools and talk to kids a little bit about it, and give them a flyer to take home to their parents who will also now learn about it. There is sure to be a large unhappy response when adults find out that there are over 22 million Hispanic illegal immigrants in America, not to mention the other races of illegal aliens in this country that add to that. With the immigrants they bring drug cartels and smuggle and traffic humans through the border. ([|http://www.immigrationcounters.com]). Educating people is one of the three solutions in solving this nationwide epidemic.