Immigration Issues and its Impact on

Teens in the United States!

By: Justine Kouyate

 Immigrations Issues
Parents Deportation Impact on
Children and Teens Teenagers
parents being Lack of opportunities for success Lost of health care system and
Many drop out of high school or well being
deported
college Isolation which any adolescent
Illegal Documents
Less likely to fulfill college or child should not experience.
education Discrimination
Stereotypes No success and bright future Fear
opportunities Depression
Stolen jobs from the citizens
Continue facing cycle of poverty
Stolen taxpayers Unemployment
Teenagers increasing numbers Teens lack of college education

of crimes and domestic violence Lack of unprofessional jobs

Unprofessional jobs
 Immigrants Data & Statistics

Legal Immigrant Admission 13,585,298

Illegal Alien Population 11,900,000
Refugee Admission (State Dept. 2001 2015) 877,323

Percent of Teenagers Who Are

High School Dropouts
English Speakers
Illegal Immigrants 49% 75% speak proper English
Legal Immigrants 25%
Native-Born Persons 9%

Racial Dropout Rates Illegal Immigrant Deportation

Hispanic 16-19 27% 2011 188,422

Black 11% 2014 102,224 Deported
Asian 4%
Mexican 16-19 40%
Thesis

In the United States, immigrants are suffering from many issues such as parent's deportation, affecting

their citizen teenagers physically and mentally alongside with economic struggles and teens with no legal

documents educational success.

 Pros and Cons of Each Alternative
Pros Cons

Deportation laws should change Increase numbers of crimes

Immigrants build America Still jobs

Pay tremendous taxes Should be deported

Do hard jobs Does not benifits America

Teenagers create things with their knowledge to Taking advantages in merica

develop the country Teenagers do gun violence and take drugs.

Parents deportation should end Do not study well in school

Undocumented immigrants students should have Does not speak English

Financial Aids support.

More college opportunities
 What Can We Do! (Take Actions)
Fundraising Find out who represents
you in Washington D.C
and how to contact them
Make T-shirts with creative
designs Write them letters to support end
immigration issues
Sell them in schools and To change deportation laws Actions Through
community Dance
Spread the word Poetry
Donate the money to this website Letters
to support "Immigration Singing
Campaign". Ect..
Workshops
Donation
Be part of leaderships in schools
Teach classes and community about Donate money to Immigration
the issue reform
Help Immigration Campaigns
 Media Tool (Website)
There are different categories on the
website
Take Action
Immigration Issues Teaches different solutions
To help solve problems
Present different issues Deportations issues
effect on teenager in the society
immigrants Support college education for teens
Protest about unemployed parents
experiences in U.S

Blog Discussion
Immigrants Facts
Get peoples opinion about
Shows statistics immigrants ways to help
Number of immigrants eter in U.S Donation
Secure Immigrants Rights
Total number of deportation And how website change their People who are willing to
total number of crimes thinking donate
Supporting Immigrants
Rights Campaign
The Solution Will Work! (Evaluation)

Teenagers are learning from our

Website Link!

website actions ideas

Other Schools

Students are spreading

Anti-Defamation League the words through

Facebook
ADL leadership programs is working Twitter
with 15 other international schools Emails to make people
They are sending letters to the visit our website
representative of U.S.
 Works Cited
1. Immigrants and the Economics of Hard Work. (n.d.). Retrieved 2006, from

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/weekinreview/02broder.html?_r=0

2. Guerrero, D. (n.d.). Orange is the New Black' actress: My parents were deported. Retrieved 2014, from

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-guerrero-immigration-family-separation-20141116-story.html

3. America, O. (2015). Immigrant Rights are Human Rights - Take Action! Retrieved from

http://weareoneamerica.org/immigrant-rights-are-human-rights-take-action

4. http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php

5. Problems With Illegal Immigration. (2015). Retrieved from

http://www.alipac.us/problems-with-illegal-immigration/