CI Midterm Exam
'Fake news' law - ANS-Reporters can face up to 15 years in prison if government views
reports as anti government or anti military
Abortion-democratic stance - ANS-Every woman should have access to reproductive
health and abortion, oppose laws that create barriers to these rights
Abortion-republican stance - ANS-Protect lives of unborn children and their mothers
advantages and disadvantages of Diplomatic tools - ANS-Advantages: peaceful,
preemptive, avoid war, promotes compromise
Disadvantages: often slow, compromise is tough, national self-interest always wins,
untrustworthy partners
Advantages and disadvantages of using economic tools - ANS-Advantages: US has
most tools, peaceful way, can be done unilaterally
disadvantages: cost, may hurt the US and its allies, many require a multilateral
approach (especially hurtful tools)
Andres Obrador - ANS-President of Mexico
Anthony Blinken - ANS-Secretary of State
Antonio Guterres - ANS-Secretary General of the United Nations
Arguments opposing S.C. - ANS-These communities harbor undocumented migrants
encourage behavior, costly to communities and social services, local municipalities defy
federal laws which they are bound to, prevent local law enforcement from doing their
jobs.
Arms race - ANS-Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up
their respective armed forces and weapons
asylum seeker - ANS-Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of
being recognized as a refugee
, Barack Obama-Immigration policy - ANS-attempted expansion: DACA-2 year work
permit and reprieve from deportation
Become a US citizen - ANS-born in the US or US territories, born to US citizen
overseas, or naturalized (adults who apply and children under 18 whose parents
naturalize)
Biden balancing act - ANS-humanitarian concerns and "more compassionate approach"
vs law, health concerns, and national security
Biden immigration plan (1/5/2023) - ANS-Admit 30,000 from Venezuela, Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Haiti each month,p; must apply from their country (if they don't they will
be denied at the border and denied if they try applying legally); expands tile 42
Biden-border security - ANS-initial halt, invest more in technology, work with other
nations
Biden-immigration policy - ANS-improve existing infrastructure, improve asylum
processing, assist within migration efforts, address the causes of illegal immigration
Bilateralism - ANS-Working with one other country
Border technology - ANS-Scanners, UAVs, robot dogs
Boris Yeltsin - ANS-President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR
and force Gorbachev to resign.
challenges for courts - ANS-court system overwhelmed, lengthy wait time, huge surge
from LA
Challenges for refugees - ANS-processing/wait times, employment, language barrier,
assimilation
Collapse of the Berlin Wall - ANS-Symbolic end of the Cold War - divide between East
and West Berlin - protesters threatened to take apart and military didn't stop them -
1989
'Fake news' law - ANS-Reporters can face up to 15 years in prison if government views
reports as anti government or anti military
Abortion-democratic stance - ANS-Every woman should have access to reproductive
health and abortion, oppose laws that create barriers to these rights
Abortion-republican stance - ANS-Protect lives of unborn children and their mothers
advantages and disadvantages of Diplomatic tools - ANS-Advantages: peaceful,
preemptive, avoid war, promotes compromise
Disadvantages: often slow, compromise is tough, national self-interest always wins,
untrustworthy partners
Advantages and disadvantages of using economic tools - ANS-Advantages: US has
most tools, peaceful way, can be done unilaterally
disadvantages: cost, may hurt the US and its allies, many require a multilateral
approach (especially hurtful tools)
Andres Obrador - ANS-President of Mexico
Anthony Blinken - ANS-Secretary of State
Antonio Guterres - ANS-Secretary General of the United Nations
Arguments opposing S.C. - ANS-These communities harbor undocumented migrants
encourage behavior, costly to communities and social services, local municipalities defy
federal laws which they are bound to, prevent local law enforcement from doing their
jobs.
Arms race - ANS-Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up
their respective armed forces and weapons
asylum seeker - ANS-Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of
being recognized as a refugee
, Barack Obama-Immigration policy - ANS-attempted expansion: DACA-2 year work
permit and reprieve from deportation
Become a US citizen - ANS-born in the US or US territories, born to US citizen
overseas, or naturalized (adults who apply and children under 18 whose parents
naturalize)
Biden balancing act - ANS-humanitarian concerns and "more compassionate approach"
vs law, health concerns, and national security
Biden immigration plan (1/5/2023) - ANS-Admit 30,000 from Venezuela, Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Haiti each month,p; must apply from their country (if they don't they will
be denied at the border and denied if they try applying legally); expands tile 42
Biden-border security - ANS-initial halt, invest more in technology, work with other
nations
Biden-immigration policy - ANS-improve existing infrastructure, improve asylum
processing, assist within migration efforts, address the causes of illegal immigration
Bilateralism - ANS-Working with one other country
Border technology - ANS-Scanners, UAVs, robot dogs
Boris Yeltsin - ANS-President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR
and force Gorbachev to resign.
challenges for courts - ANS-court system overwhelmed, lengthy wait time, huge surge
from LA
Challenges for refugees - ANS-processing/wait times, employment, language barrier,
assimilation
Collapse of the Berlin Wall - ANS-Symbolic end of the Cold War - divide between East
and West Berlin - protesters threatened to take apart and military didn't stop them -
1989
