Essay Day

Today in class, on December 12, Mr. Shick was not there so we had a sub. We worked on our essays all class and I started my second essay. I gathered some facts about option b of the essay. Immigration used to have few rules about migration in the United States before the 1800s. The first immigration policy was implemented in 1903 that banned lower class people and people affected by mental illness. Later in 1917, they required immigrants to be literate to be let into the country. In the 1920s, the United States added border patrol and quotas to immigration policies, which turned down people in need of refuge. Over the next 10-20 years, they tightened quotas, removed race as an exclusion from immigration, strengthened security procedures and preferred skilled immigrant workers and family reunification. Later in 1986, some policies were passed that granted immigrants temporary visas to work and protected children from deportation. Also, in the 1990s, the government was trying to provide accessible legal methods for immigrants