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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Torrie Hester "Repatriation Agreements of the U. S., Mexico, and Canada"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on repatriation agreements, which streamline immigrant removals after a person has been ordered from a country. Without these agreements, officials deporting an immigrant must secure approval through individual...
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Primary
PBS

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Shannon O'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 & A covers a range of issues from...
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Article
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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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: United States Mexico Borderlands

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great site that talks about changes in the U.S.-Mexico border. It also discusses the meaning of the border, the people that live there, and border regions. Click "next" at the bottom of the page for more information on the...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Mr. Bush in Mexico (02/16/01)

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion on President George W. Bush's meeting with then Mexican President Vicente Fox, as they talked about drug issues, immigration, and other topics.
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Website
Other

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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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: S. Deborah Kang, Ins on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the Us Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of the immigration on the US-Mexico border. The US-Mexico border has been and continues to be both open and closed as a matter of design. For much of the twentieth century, the Immigration and...
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Article
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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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

U of Minnesota: Migration, Food, & Cultural Exchange: Mexico & the U. S.

For Students 9th - 10th
The following sources include a poem and newspaper article that deal with contemporary issues of migration and foods. Its goal is to examine food as an assertion of ethnic identity and as a site of cultural exchange and contest between...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: European Colonization North of Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
Although settlements by other northern European countries are mentioned, the primary focus of this article is on English settlements and the types of immigrants who came to the New World from England.
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Website
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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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Mark Overmyer Velazquez, "From Repatriation to Deportation Nation"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of the relationship between the US and Mexico regarding immigration. In the 1930s, the U.S. government forced hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mexicans, including some U.S. citizens, back across the...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Julie Weise, "2016: The Year Nativism Conquered the South"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on South's change of heart toward undocumented immigrants from Mexico especially regarding their votes during the 1916 Presidential election of the anti-immigration Trump.
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Website
Other

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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Website
Other

Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America

For Students 9th - 10th
This group seeks to stabilize the population growth in America by limiting immigration. They present their platform and possible solutions.
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Article
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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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

Univerity of Minnesota: Global Rem: Border Control & Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource uses articles, images, and videos that describe the use of sophisticated technologies to control migration at the border between the United States and Mexico. The goal is to encourage students to understand how technology...
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Primary
Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Bustamante's Decree of 1830

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Law of April 6, 1830, read this reprinting of the Bustamante's Decree, which explicitly banned any further immigration from the United States to Texas.
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Handout
USA Today

Migration Is a Two Way Street for Many Mexicans

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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Online Course
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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Website
Other

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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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Alberto Wilson Iii, "Border Walls in a Globalized Age"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on issues concerning President Trump's proposed Border Wall with Mexico to stop undocumented immigration.
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Website
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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Lesson Plan
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 50: Using Music to Teach Personal Narrative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The personal narrative, apart from appearing as an option in the writing component of many state assessment tests, is a form of writing which allows students the chance to reflect seriously and honestly on important events in their own...

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