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$5.00 ETH125- Week 3 CheckPoint- Modern challenges in Immigration
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Q:CheckPoint: Modern Challenges in Immigration
• Resources: Ch. 4 in Racial and Ethnic Groups and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) Web site
• Due Date: Day 4 [Individual] forum
• Skim these sections of the USCIS Web site (www.uscis.gov): Immigration Forms, Fees
and Fingerprints; and Immigration Services and Benefits Programs.
• Select an immigrant group from Ch. 4 of the text. Imagine yourself as a current member
of that group, and consider the question, “Would I want to immigrate to the United States,
and why?” Think about what opinion you would have of the immigration process,
including naturalization, the costs, fingerprinting, etc. Consider whether the process
would seem easy or difficult for you as an immigrant. Once you have thought about your
answers, proceed to the next step of this CheckPoint.
• Post a 200- to 300-word summary that answers all of the following questions:
o Should United States government policy favor certain kinds of immigrants?
o Should [citizenship] preference be given to the neediest applicants? The most
talented? The most oppressed? The richest?
o Should applications from certain countries be given priority? (Feltey, 2006, p. 11)
