Exam 3: Racism and Nativism in Immigration Policy

The ___________ limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free White persons."

_______ presumes the superiority of a racial group, whereas _______ presumes the superiority of native-born citizens.

Why was a quota of 20,000 immigrants from Mexico, as set by the Immigration and Nationality Act, so unrealistic?

How did the Naturalization Act of 1790 lay the foundation for later racialized immigration policies?

From 1950 to 1954, the Border Patrol conducted a series of operations, referred to as _________, which resulted in the deportation of over one million Mexican immigrants.

The United States has always required passports and visas to enter the country.

What similarities and differences do you see between the bracero program, which took place between 1942 and 1964, and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?

Legislation in the early 20^th century, including the Immigration Act of 1917 and the Johnson-Reed Act, sought to restrict immigration from all of the following regions EXCEPT:

As a means to address labor shortages following World War II, the U.S government created a program which brought Mexicans to the United States to work in agriculture. This program was called:

The Immigration Act of 1924, the Oriental Exclusion Act, and the creation of the Border Patrol are three measures implemented by the United States in 1924, which resulted in:

Although most often associated with African Americans in the South, cases in which both Italians and Jews were lynched similarly to African Americans demonstrate how both groups:

The two aspects of U.S. immigration policy which have remained constant since its inception are that the consequences of the policy have been more disadvantageous to people defined as non-White than to those considered to be White and:

The ____________ movement advocated the selective breeding of Americans and the sterilization of the biologically unfit as a way of creating a superior breed of people.

The landmark Supreme Court case, Fong Yue Ting v. United States which ruled that constitutional protections did not apply in deportation cases, was later declared unconstitutional.

If Eduardo was an undocumented farmhand working on an orange orchard in California, under which piece of legislation could he have been denied social services and educational opportunities, had it remained in effect?

Use the concept of systemic racism to explain how racism in the criminal justice system affects Black and Latino immigrants.

World War II created a Mexican American middle class, improving their social standing in the borderlands.

Compare and contrast Operation Wetback with the McCarren Internal Security Act. What do these two policies reveal about the way in which nativism shapes immigration policy?

During the Great Depression, the Immigration and Naturalization Service mounted a repatriation campaign leading to mass deportations of Mexican immigrants.

DREAMers were able to successfully pressure President Obama into providing deferred action and work permits to undocumented youth. In June 2012, the president instituted ________, which protects youth from deportation for two years.