Deck 6: Latinos and Social Justice

Question 1

Which of the following could be considered an unauthorized immigrant?

A) People who sneak into the country illegally
B) People who overstay their visas
C) People who are admitted on the basis of fraudulent documents
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What percentage of the 11.4 million Mexican immigrants are illegal immgrants?

A) 16%
B) 32%
C) 51%
D) 75%

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Those countries with the largest number of immigrants coming to the U.S. are:

A) Mexico, India, and China
B) Mexico, Canada, and China
C) Mexico, India, and Canada
D) Mexico, Israel, and China

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following was not one of the Spanish territories signed over to the United States as part of the peace treaty of the Spanish-American War?

A) Cuba
B) Puerto Rico
C) Dominican Republic
D) Guam

Question 5

The _________ was the closest the U.S. ever came to nuclear war.

A) Bay of Pigs Invasion
B) Cuban Missile Crisis
C) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
D) None of the above

Question 6

Which of the following was a result of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966?

A) Cuban exiles intercepted at sea en route to Florida would be returned to Cuba.
B) Cuban exiles who made it to land could seek refuge within the United States.
C) The Cuban government would not take action against returning Cuban refugees who did not successfully make it all the way to U.S. soil.
D) All of the above

Question 7

Spanish conquistador, Herman Cortes, conquered the __________ Empire in 1519 by taking the city of Tenochtitlan.

A) Incan
B) Aztec
C) Mexican
D) None of the above

Question 8

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stated that Mexico would cede ____________ for the sum of $15 million.

A) Texas
B) California
C) New Mexico
D) All of the above

Question 9

The deportation of Mexicans back to Mexico is referred to as what?

A) Migration
B) Repatriation
C) Urbanization
D) Dehumanization

Question 10

Which act of legislation abolished the national origin quota system while attempting to still moderate the rate of immigration into the United States?

A) Immigration Act of 1965
B) Immigration Act of 1990
C) Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
D) Immigrant Reform and Control Act

Question 11

Which act of legislation provided amnesty and temporary status to all illegal immigrants who had lived in the United States continuously since before January 1, 1982?

A) Immigration Act of 1965
B) Immigration Act of 1990
C) Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
D) Immigrant Reform and Control Act

Question 12

Which of the following was not one of the purposes of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act?

A) Decrease penalties against illegal immigration
B) Streamline the deportation process
C) Curb the ability of terrorists to use the immigration process to enter and operate in the United States
D) All of the above were purposes of the Act

Question 13

In the case of _______________, the Supreme Court deemed that it is constitutional for an officer to make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained, or arrested if there is reasonable suspicion that the individual is in the country illegally.

A) New Mexico v. United States
B) California v. United States
C) Arizona v. United States
D) Texas v. United States

Question 14

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act was actually a part of which corporation's plan to build and operate prisons for illegal immigrants?

A) American Legislative Exchange Council
B) Immigration and Customs Enforcement
C) Corrections Corporation of America
D) None of the above

Question 15

The Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program grants deferred action as well as authorization to work to young immigrants who:

A) Came to the U.S. as children
B) Have pursued education
C) Have not committed serious crimes and do not pose a national security threat
D) All of the above

Question 16

Which of the following is true regarding many first-generation immigrants?

A) They relocate to areas where groups of immigrants from various countries can be found.
B) They relocate to areas where a concentration of immigrants from the same country can be found.
C) They relocate to areas where there is a small concentration of immigrants.
D) None of the above

Question 17

Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between immigration and crime?

A) Immigration increases crime
B) Increased immigration may actually help to reduce the crime rate
C) Undocumented immigrants are crime-prone and law breaking
D) Both A and C

Question 18

What factor could explain why first-generation immigrants are less crime-prone than their second-generation children or third-generation grandchildren?

A) Second-generation immigrants have more to lose.
B) Second-generation Americans become more susceptible to the risk factors that increase criminality in others.
C) First-generation immigrants are more likely to have delinquent peers or friends in gangs.
D) None of the above

Question 19

Literature on the relationship between ethnicity and sentence severity consistently indicates what?

A) Latinos are sentenced more harshly than whites.
B) Whites are sentences more harshly than Latinos.
C) African Americans are sentences more harshly than Latinos.
D) There is no relationship between ethnicity and sentence severity.

Question 20

Which of the following factors has led to a growing burden on agencies of criminal justice?

A) Increases in illegal immigration
B) Stepped up enforcement by federal agencies
C) Changes in policy
D) All of the above

Question 21

Since 92% of unlawful reentry offenders were Latino in 2012, Latinos now make up _______ of all federal offenders.

A) 26%
B) 30%
C) 48%
D) 56%

Question 22

___________ highlights how anti-immigrant policies fuel resentment and manifest in discrimination on all levels.

A) Profit
B) Politics of criminalization
C) Degradation
D) Population control

Question 23

Which of the following is true regarding U.S. immigration policy?

A) It is motivated by rational concerns rooted in social justice.
B) It is driven by rational concerns such as public safety.
C) It is overly punitive and often driven by profit concerns.
D) Both A and B

Question 24

What was the primary reason for the exclusion of ethnic differences in the literature covering race and sentencing?

A) Lack of available data
B) Bias
C) Discrimination
D) Prejudice

Question 25

__________ is a status of a person as a citizen of a country that guarantees him or her with certain rights, privileges, as well as duties.

Question 26

_____________ specifically restrict the total portion of immigrants coming from any country at seven percent.

Question 27

The CIA trained 1,400 Cuban exiles and sent them back to Cuba to oust Castro in the ______________.

Question 28

The concept of ______________ was used to define the experiences of Latino workers in the southwest.

Question 29

The process of ___________ involves the denial of full humanness to others.

Question 30

What four criteria must undocumented immigrants meet in order to fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act?

Question 31

What were the implications that were authorized by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act?

Question 32

Briefly discuss the four ways in which punitive crime policies contribute to the racial stratification and subsequent racial and ethnic exclusion, as indicated by Lopez (2010)