Chapter 30

Quiz for Chapter Thirty Analyzing Voices: Immigration After 1965: Its Defenders and Critics

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Question 1

John F. Kennedy’s ideas about immigration policy were best represented in which of the following policies?A. North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993
B. California Proposition 187
C. California Proposition 227
D. The Dream Act, as described by Barack Obama

Question 2

In “A Nation of (Too Many) Immigrants?” Roy Beck suggests that immigration has created a problem for the United States for which of the following reasons?A. Immigrants commit too many crimes and tax the policing and justice systems.
B. High numbers of Hispanic and Asian immigrants threaten to make whites a minority.
C. Immigrants are politically inexperienced and are unable to participate in democratic politics.
D. The massive number of immigrants has made the population of the United States too high.

Question 3

In their 1994 article, “Still an Open Door?” Vernon Briggs and Stephen Moore wrote, “Because most immigrants are not poor, tired, huddled masses, but rather are above the average of their compatriots in skill and education levels, the immigration process has a highly beneficial self-selection component, a skimming of the cream of the best workers and top brainpower from the rest of the world.” In this statement, the authors were arguing thatA. American society could not progress further unless it liberalized its immigration policies.
B. immigrants are generally intelligent and productive people who contribute to U.S. society.
C. people from countries outside the United States are more productive and intelligent than Americans.
D. immigrants from the early 1900s were hardworking, but those from the 1990s are not.