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5. What challenge might Machado make to the analysis that Preston offers? Use evidence

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from both texts to support your response.
6. What is one overriding characteristic that Zeitz, Lam, and Goolsbee believe — based on

history — that makes immigrants an integral part of the U.S.?

Conversation
Entering
Entering the Conversation
the
As you respond to each of the following prompts, support your argument with references to at
Redefining America
least three of the sources in the Conversation on immigration in the twenty-first century.
1. Synthesis. The Statue of Liberty greets immigrants to the United States with these words:
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Taken
from the poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, this exhortation expresses the
nation’s confidence that those from many different countries, often, though not always,
economically poor and uneducated, will make significant contributions to the economy
and culture as they successfully pursue the American Dream in a welcoming democracy.
In what ways, if any, has that confidence in the accessibility of the American Dream to
twenty-first century immigrants eroded since those words were carved onto the Statue of
Liberty in 1903?
Carefully read the following six sources, including the introductory information for each
sources. Write an essay that synthesizes material from at least three of the sources and
develops your position on the accessibility of the American Dream to immigrants to the
United States today.

2. On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union
address, which would become known as his “Four Freedoms” speech. In it, President
Roosevelt argued that the nation had a moral obligation to uphold the four freedoms as
basic human rights that should be guaranteed to everyone: freedom of speech, freedom of
worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. In what ways does immigration policy
and the concept of the American Dream intersect with these four freedoms? Develop an
argument for a policy and/or attitude toward immigration today that is based in President
Roosevelt’s “four freedoms.”

3. Current Senator and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney stated his position on
immigration with a personal touch: “We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children
and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the
driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that
place called America could be better.” Develop a position on the viewpoint implicit in his
statement as you explain your position on immigration and the American Dream in the U.S.
today.

4. Political policies change, evolve, develop, and even reverse. What are two basic principles
that you believe should guide immigration policy in the U.S. today? You may locate these
principles in the texts you’ve read or present others that are based in your own reading
or experience. Be sure to cite at least three of the sources from this Conversation in your
response.

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