The Immigration Debate

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The Immigration Debate

• The Daily Show Immigration and the WWE
• Why would a WWE wrestler articulate his ideas
  about immigration during a wrestling match?
• What arguments are made for and against
  immigration?
• Where do negative views of Mexican immigrants
  originate?

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Rio Grande, Texas
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Salinas, CA
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Idaho
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Washington
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Story of an Immigrant

• Border journey
• Push/pull factors
• Chain migration
• Employment
• Cultural/national pride
• Quality of education
• Social/economic challenges
• Future generations

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Race and Immigration

• If in the future racial qualities are to be
  improved, the improving must be wrought mainly by
  favoring the fecundity of the worthy type.
  Teddy Roosevelt, 1913.

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Race and Immigration

• By the end of the century the white and
  European population will be down to about three
  percent. This is what I call the death of the
  West. I see the nations dying when the
  populations die. I see the civilization dying.
  Pat Buchanan, 2006