1 Introduction 1 Introduction
1.1. set-up video: course overview
1.2. Watch Immigration Nation | Netflix Official Site
This documentary was released in 2020. What does it show you about the undocumented population? About ICE personnel? About enforcement of the immigration laws?
1.3. Immigration Has Been a Defining, Often Contentious, Element Throughout U.S. History | migrationpolicy.org
1.4. Key facts about the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population | Pew Research Center
What is surprising about this profile of the uncodumented population? How might it affect policy and public attitudes to undocumented immigration?
1.5. EOIR memo re terminology
Why should/does terminology make a difference?
1.6. EOIR Rescinds Policy Memo on Updated Terminology Regarding Noncitizens
1.7 Resources 1.7 Resources
1.7.1. Timeline of U.S. Immigration History
1.7.2. Protecting The American People Against Invasion – The White House
One of the executive orders Trump issued on his first day back ion office. You don't need to read this closely - it's here more to give you a sense of how immigration rhetoric is being absorbed into legal instruments. What does it say about his posture to immigration?
1.7.3. Immigrants in the US | American Immigration Council
1.7.4. PBS NewsHour, A look at the history of U.S. immigration policies that led to today's complex system
1.7.5. Immigration Policy Tracking Project
This site tracks immigration-related policy actions undertaken by the Trump Administration.