MASImmigrationSpring

Immigration Bot tweeting out information about immigration, created in a Mexican American Studies course

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If you witnessed ICE activity in your community, call hotline at 1-[phone] to report it.

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Last year, 30% of new entrepreneurs in the United States were immigrants.

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64,000 Mexicans work in American agriculture and fishing.

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Shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, a proposal was made to print all federal laws in German as well as English because of the large number of German immigrants. One vote in the House of Representatives defeated the proposal.

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Immigrants from the top five countries of birth (Mexico, China, Cuba, India, and the Dominican Republic) accounted for 38% of people who received greencards in 2017.

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U.S. Border Patrol funding has skyrocketed since 1992, enabling the agency to increase its staff by 400%+. However, this increase in border enforcement predated the decline in migration by more than 10 yrs, suggesting that this is not the main cause of decreasing immigration.

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From October 2014 to July 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement received a total of 4,556 allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment from the government-funded detention facilities and only 1,303 were referred to the Justice Dept

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In 2011, the rate of new immigrant entrepreneurs (0.60%) more than doubled that of the Americans, which was just over 0.25%. In 2016 this rate remained much higher among immigrants (0.52%) than among natives (0.26%).

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In Georgia, the state governor had to send prisoners to work the field to replace undocumented immigrants. The majority of the prisoners resigned in the first half hour of work.

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I look at myself, like what can I do? We sometimes forget that WE have the power to drive change. Like Michael Jackson said, it starts with the man in the mirror.

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Immigrants add trillions of dollars to the U.S gross domestic product (GDP) and will continue to increase.

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counties often tried to find homes for orphaned children. If that proved unsuccessful, they attempted to return the children to relatives in Mexico or to transfer them to orphanages south of the border.-Balderrama and Rodriguez

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Most undocumented immigrants overstay their visas, rather than cross the borders as assumed.

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In President Trump’s first year in office, apprehensions declines by 43% from 2016 to 2017.

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Though the standard of living for most Mexican families has improved, a majority of Mexicans are not optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country. One-third of them would still migrate to the US

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About 100,000 immigrants graduated High School without DACA protections.

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Immigrants are entrepreneurs, job creators, tax payers, and consumers.

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Since DACA, the estimated number of HS graduates has increased in states where immigration is common. But because the Trump Administration is trying remove DACA, there is a fear that HS graduates will decrease because of the number of dropouts.

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An estimated 40 percent of all Americans have an ancestor who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island.

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Undocumented immigrants paid $11.84 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. If the deferred action directives were to be fully implemented, state and local tax revenue would increase by an estimated additional $845 million a year.