States back off from enacting immigration laws

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/12/nation/la-na-ff-immigration-laws-20131013

Over the last couple years states have started to make tighter restrictions on immigration laws, partially due to Arizona's controversial enforcement law. However, states are now stating to back off from enacting immigration laws, and lawmakers are not waiting for the federal government to take a lead. 

Robert McMullin's orchards is one of the small business that is being impacted by the immigration law. "We lost $300,000 on that deal because we didn't have enough guys to pick," he said. He relies on a federal program that brings in legal workers from Mexico to work his groves, but the program, which he calls expensive and inflexible, can't always meet his needs. The system needs streamlining, he said. Robert McMullin was relying on a state guest-worker program that was supposed to go into effect this summer which help search for workers, but lawmakers had delayed the program, because they wanted to see how congress was going to handle the immigration laws. States are holding back from pushing any immigration law, because they are hoping that the federal government will handle the situation. 

History about Mexico

After watching the movie The Other Side of Immigration I decided that I wanted to do some more research on Mexico. Even though I am Mexican I hardly know anything about Mexico, because my family doesn't have many roots tied with Mexico. I thought this was an interesting article because it not only provide history about Mexico, but it also provided interviews about immigrants who migrated from Mexico
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/mexican4.html

The People Speak

The People Speak is a recently new website that was launched to help stop the attack style on political campaigning in our public process. It talks about how the promiscuous and offensive use of innuendo, exaggeration, inaccurate or false claims, and expedient out-of-context information must stop. The People Speak seeks to humanize political campaigns in a way that sets us free to have more authentic and creative conversations during campaign seasons. The People Speak focuses on the campaigns going on in San Jose. Over the last couple years San Jose has grown very ugly with their politics. There has been so many bashing of politicians that voters have a hard time of believing what is real and what is made up. This is exactly why this website was created to help the voters see the real side.

http://thepeoplespeak.net/standart-post-type/

More Latinos List Themselves as White

When I was doing my ancestry project I came across and interesting fact that stated that my grandpa was labeled under as being "white" I was curious to find out why and I started to do some research about. I came across this article that stated that Latinos today are listing themselves as under white, because even today Latino is not considered to be a race.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/09/29/census-more-latinos-list-themselves-as-white/

Immigration Stories

I came across this website that are the Stories of US immigrants. They provide a small story of their own immigration story. I found some stories to be very touching and it was interesting to read the different experiences that people have had.
http://www.myimmigrationstory.com

Latino Role Model Conference

 The Latino Role Model Conference is an educational conference focusing on students of the East Side San Jose who come from a low income community. The Latino Role Model Conference exist to plant the seeds of dreams into the heads of young people. The dreams of going to college and becoming a lawyer, doctor, engineer, or whatever they wish to be by inspiring them. We exist to give meaning to Si Se Puede. I come from a family who was raised in the East Side of San Jose, where many immigrants and farm workers lived. My grandpa who was only educated at a fifth grade level,  dropped out of school to help his family put food on the table. This was common a thing that many Mexicans did. My grandpa worked in the fields and spent long hours doing hard labor for a little pay. Like most immigrants and farm workers they did whatever work they could take to provide for their family.

The Latino Role Model Conference was created by Esau Herrera. One day he was visiting juvenile hall and a little Chicano Boy came up to him and said, "Are you really a lawyer?" and Herrera replied, "Yes I am." The little Chicano boy than said, "I've never seen a brown lawyer before." It was after that moment that Esau Herrera decided to create the Latino Role Model Conference. It started off with only 20 students, it is now going to have their 23rd conference this weekend without about 400 students attending. The Role Model Conference has grown greatly since it first started. It now has an average of 300-500 students attending every year. They also now give 10 scholarships to graduating seniors in the East Side of San Jose.

Chinese Exclusion Act

http://www.westernjournalism.com/blogging-tools/historical-documents/reconstruction-and-westward-expansion-1865-1914/chinese-exclusion-act/

EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES

In Chapter 8 we learned about the Eastern European  Jewish immigrants. This article provides background with how many Eastern European Jews came to the United States. It states Of all Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1886 to 1914, forty-four percent were women. Women who immigrated to America from Eastern Europe discovered their lives stamped by the economic, social, and cultural impact of their migration. I liked this article, because it talks about women.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/eastern-european-immigrants-in-united-states

American culture

The American culture is a diverse mix of customs and traditions from nearly every region of the world. In today's society a girl's life is influenced by her culture and society. The German women were able to easily adapt to the American culture, because they were able to pick up on the American fashion. Now a days, girls are influenced by the media. The media tells girls what they should wear, what they should look like, and what they should do. Girls are so influenced on how they live their lives according to what the media does. It has become such a negative influence, because now a days girls think that they have to be skinny in order to look pretty. Instead of feeling comfortable with their own body. Girls are following the trends of stars who are ruining their lives with drugs, alcohol, and much more. Immigrants are able to adapt to the American culture so fast, because they watch what's on tv and think thats how they should act. 

Huguenot immigration

In chapter 4 it talks about a group of French people who came in the refugee migration of the 1680s and after. The people were known as the Huguenots and only two thousands came by 1700 and only a few hundred after that. I have never heard of this group before, so I was curious to find out a little more about them.  These two articles give off great history about the Huguenot immigration to America. The Huguenots were French Protestants and they were unwelcome in the Catholic France. These articles talk about their desire for greater freedom religiously and politically. I was able to gain a lot of new insight about this group that I never heard of before. 

http://huguenotsocietyofamerica.org/?page=Huguenot-History

http://northamericanimmigration.org/133-huguenot-immigration.html

The role of women in slaves communities

http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/Slave%20Communities/atlantic_world/gender.htm
Understanding the role of women in slavery is an important part of history that is hardly mentioned in textbooks. Women slaves played a key role in the development of slave communities through the development of African Sexuality, Family Structure and Economic Productivity. This article provides a great amount of detail on how women slaves were looked at during that time period. It is amazing to read about how belittled women slaves were. People looked down upon them so much and only looked as them for someone who should reproduce. They were looked at as unmoral and only seen as a "sex drive."