BORDER CONTROL EXAM 1 Questions With Verified Answers

Which of the following groups and organizations (as discussed in class) help migrants on or at the border? - Answer B) Humane Borders What is the term used by the government used to describe someone who enters a country before requesting asylum? - Answer A) asylum-seeker From what region of the world are most migrants to the US currently coming from? - Answer C) Asia According to Dr. Rodriguez, the Pew Research Center's reports on the number of apprehensions of unauthorized migrants should actually be lower because - Answer B) The Pew counts asylum-seekers as apprehensions How can U.S. immigrant citizens be deported? - Answer B) They give consent What country did the US enact the wet foot, dry foot policy for? - Answer D) Cuba The Immigration Law of 1990 created _______ which provides citizens of specific countries facing continuous armed conflict or environmental disaster a work permit and stay of deportation. - Answer A) Temporary Protected Status City in Mexico where De León starts his research? - Answer C) Nogales Why has there been such a dramatic drop in the number of Mexican migrants to the U.S. in recent years? - Answer D) B and C What border-control practice was implemented in 1994? - Answer B) PTD Which administration Signed the Secure Fence Act? - Answer A) George W. Bush The process whereby sovereign authorities declare a state of emergency in order to suspend the legal protections afforded to individuals while simultaneously unleashing the power of the state upon them, is known as: - Answer A. Border and Immigration Control B. Operation "hold down the line" C. Conception of Border Transnationalism D. State of exception**** Which of the following was a main contributor to the rise in unauthorized Mexican immigration to the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s? - Answer a) The initiation of the Bracero program, which had quotas for participants Which of the following social consequence of the division at the border are apparent today? - Answer D) All of the above what did the Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986 state? - Answer A. Legalized aliens who were currently already living in the U.S. for at least 3 years Where was Prevention Through Deterrence first implemented? - Answer El Paso, Texas When was hiring undocumented workers outlawed in the U.S? - Answer A) 1986 What was the Texas Proviso? - Answer C) An immigration policy that states it is illegal to be undocumented, but legal to hire the undocumented. According to the lecture, the real border is a social construct that is defined by the: - Answer C) Relationship between Mexico and the U.S.