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Immigration Project – National Security

Background:

National Security - Muslim Ban – Trump’s Executive Order

On 27 January President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions and temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries. The move sparked numerous protests and legal challenges. A week later a federal judge in Seattle suspended it nationwide, allowing banned visitors to travel to the US pending an appeal by the administration.

Who is affected by the ban? - All travelers who have nationality of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are not permitted to enter the US for 90 days, or be issued an immigrant or non-immigrant visa. People who have dual nationality with a non-restricted country are not affected, so long as they travel on the passport from the other country.

The President’s Views - Mr Trump said the halt on the refugee programme was needed to give government agencies time to develop a stricter vetting system and ensure that visas were not issued to individuals posing a national security threat. "To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting," the president said in a statement released on Facebook. "This is not about religion - this is about terror and keeping our country safe.”

There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order Syrians applying for resettlement in the US were already subject to a complex process of background investigation and security screenings, in a process that could take between 18 to 24 months. Mr Priebus said the seven countries had been included because Congress and the Obama administration had identified them as "the most watched countries harbouring terrorists".

Legal Arguments: In the past, the US used to ban entrants from specific countries and entire regions. But in 1965, the US Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act which said that no person could be "discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person's race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of residence".So, the exclusion of all Syrians would be enough to challenge Mr Trump in court. The fact that they are all Muslim countries lends weight to the critics's argument that the order is "anti-Muslim".

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Critics of the ban - Rights groups say Mr Trump's order targeted Muslims because of their faith and that no refugees had been convicted of terrorism-related crimes. They also said that the most recent attacks in the US were carried out by US nationals or citizens from the countries not included in the travel ban: While announcing the plan, Mr Trump cited the attacks of 11 September 2001. But none of the 19 hijackers who committed the attacks came from countries included in the suspension. They were from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Lebanon. Some pointed out that the list did not include countries where President Trump had business interests - like Saudi Arabia - a suggestion dismissed by the president's chief of staff as not related.

National Security

Haitian Refugees

The administration decided last month to expel 59,000 Haitians living in the United States under temporary protected status (TPS) after the disasters of the 2010 earthquake that killed some 300,000 Haitians and the devastation of Hurricane Matthew in 2016. The Trump administration insisted that the emergency no longer existed, despite the prevailing view of most experts (and politicians from his own Republican Party) that impoverished Haiti is not ready to absorb such a large number of Haitians who have lived abroad for so long.

Trump may think of Haitians as a disease (was quoted as saying that “they all have HIV/AIDS”, but the reality is that we’ve helped make America great. More than 700,000 Haitians live in the United States (the actual number may be double the official tally), and they have plenty of success stories to counter Trump’s narrow view. I serve on the board of a Haitian American organization that identifies and celebrates the success of Haitian immigrants in America. We are university presidents, doctors, lawyers, journalists, professors, teachers, nurses, NFL stars, office workers and cabdrivers.

Haitian Americans and those of Haitian descent have been elected to city and state governments in Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida and even to Congress (e.g. Rep. Mia Love, Republican of Utah). President Barack Obama’s last ambassador to South Africa came to America as a child with his Haitian parents.

Dreamers – DACA – Dream Act

The Trump administration Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known as "DREAMers," who entered the country illegally as children.

DACA allowed individuals who were brought to the U.S. as children or teens before mid-2007 to apply for protection from deportation and work permits if they met certain requirements. Beneficiaries had to be under the age of 16 upon entering the country; no older than 31 as of June 15, 2012; lived continuously in the U.S. since mid-2007; be enrolled in high school or college, already have a diploma or degree, have a GED certificate or be an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. military; and have no felony criminal convictions, significant misdemeanor convictions, no more than three other misdemeanor convictions or otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety

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Immigration – Group Project: Directions – in your groups, you must come to a consensus and agree on the reasons for your answer.

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|Should illegal immigrants be part of America? | | |

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|Should illegal immigrants be allowed to work in America? | | |

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|Should immigrants be required to learn English? | | |

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|Should the children of illegal immigrants be considered citizens of | | |

|America if they are born here? | | |

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Immigration – Group Project: Directions: Complete discuss on each topic and create two solutions for each problem.

|Problem: Border Security & National Security |Problem: Wages& Jobs |Problem: Education and Services |

|Concerns over screening the borders has led to construction of sections |Some businesses are lobbying heavily to keep their low income workers, |Schools, educational institutions, and social service organizations are |

|of fencing between the U.S. and Mexico. Self-appointed militias stand |legal and illegal. |struggling to serve increased numbers of recent immigrants, with the |

|guard at borders, weapons in hand, attempting to stop illegal | |additional pressure of high stakes testing. |

|immigrants. There are concerns about people who may intent to harm U.S. |Many Americans fear that fewer jobs and resources are available for our | |

|citizens and the U.S. government. |growing and increasingly diverse population. | |

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|Discuss: Should the government spend our tax money to keep illegal |Discuss: Why would business want to keep low income workers even if they|Discuss: Are schools, educational institutions, and social service |

|immigrants out? |are illegal? Are Americans losing opportunities for jobs? |organizations responsible for these immigrants? What should schools, |

| | |educational institutions, and social service organizations do about this|

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