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Senate Bill a Step Backwards for Immigrant Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines a recent bill debated in the U.S. Senate regarding immigration and border policy.
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Institute for Policy Studies

Mr. Bush Goes to Mexico: Recommendations for Immigration Discussion

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines immigration issues between the United States and Mexico, with problems faced by both nations and the individuals themselves.
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BBC

Bbc News: Migration Key Issue as Mexico's Calderon Visits Us

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News examines the issues of migration from Mexico to the United States. Arizona's illegal immigration and the implications of the drug violence in Mexico on economic cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. are discussed in some...
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PBS

Pbs: The New Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PBS chronicles the miniseries coming in April of 2004 entitled "The New Americans." The site documents the new American immigrants: read stories of immigrants from Argentina, China, Mexico, Hungary, Taiwan, Russia, and more.
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Peasant Social Worlds: The Other Way Out: Us Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an article on current migration trends from Mexico to the US. The article discusses the impact of legislation and economic crisis on migration.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Mexican Colonization Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 where a Mexican statute allowed foreigners to immigrate to the country.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Places of Migration in United States History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
MIT provides and extensive list of reading and viewing materials in regard to the migration within the United States. Lecture notes and possible assignments included.
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Border Film Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the results of the Border Film Project that attempts to "show the human face of immigration" from both sides of the border. This site showcases photos and twelve video clips that were recorded with undocumented migrants and...
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Migration Policy Institute

Migration Policy Institute: Country Profiles

For Students 9th - 10th
A catalogue of the migration experience that looks at the diverse flows of immigrants around the world. Visitors can click on the profiles of individual countries to access brief summaries of vital data, immigration policies, history,...
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: Anglo Amer. Colonization in Texas: Texas 1836 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the declaration of independence from Mexico by Texas in 1836, the removal of restrictions on slavery, and how this dramatically increased the population and led to a much greater reliance on the cotton industry in the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child" by F. Jimenez

For Students 5th - 8th
A collection of autobiographical short stories about a boy whose family moves from America to Mexico where they become migrant workers. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan

For Students 5th - 8th
Esperanza is a young girl forced to leave behind a life of luxury in Mexico for a farm workers camp in California. The new experience brings Esperanza timeless lessons on life and love. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair...
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Curated OER

Mexican Workers

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes Mexicans coming to work in the United States in order to make enough money to send to their families in Mexico, though many, as stated in the article, want to eventually return to Mexico.
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PBS

The Sixth Section

For Students 9th - 10th
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
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Curated OER

Pbs News Hours: Q&a: Calderon Visits u.s. With Security, Immigration in Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
Shannon On'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & Q covers a range of issues from...
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BBC

Bbc: Us Brings in New Passport Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
Because of concern about terrorism and drug smuggling, the US tightened its travel regulations requiring a passport for people flying into the US from Canada and Mexico. 1/07
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PBS

Pbs: New Perspectives on the West

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

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