Reading

Today in Human Geography with Mr.Schick we had to read about our lesson tomorrow. It was very boring and i didn't like it at all. Yet i did learn a couple things. In the reading i learned about how we classify countries to four types of immigration policies, One being maintaining current level, two increasing the level, three decreasing the level, and four being that there is no policy. In this we can see how 21 countries seek immigrants, 32 want fewer immigrants, 116 wish to maintain the level, and 25 have no policy. It works the same for emigration, there are 18 countries who want to increase their level, 46 who want to decrease, 43 who want to maintain their level, and 88 with no policy.  Then i learned about people who are unauthorized persons(As the book calls it).This is where  people come into the United States as an illegal with no paper work. Their were 11.3 million unauthorized persons in the U.S in 2014 and a peak of 12.2 million in 2007. I also got that over one half of unauthorized persons come from Mexico, the remainder are evenly dived between Latin American countries and other regions in the world. From that 11.3 million, 1 million of that are illegal children, and then from the illegal persons their is 4.5 million children born legal. This then relates to the work force because 8 million illegal persons are working in the U.S making 5% of the U.S labor force, making them more likely to do dirty jobs and blue collar work, not white collar work. Lastly i learned about how the U.S put Quotas on how many immigrants could come to America. a Quota put in 1921 called the Quota Act and the nationals Origin Act made in 1924 made it more difficult. in the Act of 1924 it made it to wear only 2% of each country to migrate to the U.S. then in 1965 it was split per hemisphere, 170,000 from eastern and 120,000 from western. Then in 1978 it was a Global Quota of 290,000 then in 1990 it changed to a Global Quota of 700,000.