Primary Sources

Balneg, John and Luz . Personal interview. 21 Oct. 2003.

This interview was given at the beginning of the project. We learned a about how people felt and thought about their immigration. This interview also explained two opinions of why immigrants are good for the United States.

This book provided us with opinions of teenagers that have immigrated to the United States. Remix had actual interviews with teenagers that went through immigration and showed all the emotions that affected them.

"Einstein, Albert," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2004
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

This picture was found to accompany the paragraph about Albert Einstein. It helps prove out point that legal immigrants are good for the United States.

The Chinese American Family Album provided us with pictures for our site; it also provided an excellent introduction by Bette Bao Lord.

This book gave us many pictures to use on our site, as well as an introduction that helped us to understand some of the hardships of immigration.

The German American Family Album, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, provided our group with pictures of a German family that have immigrated to the United States, and information about the speakers’ past and their opinion on immigration.

Hope, Bob," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2004
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

In this site we found valuable information about Bob Hope and him being a helpful legal immigrant. There was a picture was used to go along with the paragraph.

"Kissinger, Henry A(lfred)," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2004
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved

This site was used to find information about Henry Kissinger, a famous immigrant. This picture was found to go along with the paragraph about how Henry Kissinger was an example of a good legal immigrant.

Interview, Conducted By Erin Mirecki

Mirecki, Lawrence and Edia. Personal interview. 25 Oct. 2003.

This interview includes a husband and wife’s immigration story and their viewpoints on immigrants today.

Interview, Conducted by Erin Mirecki

Mirecki, Lawrence. Personal interview. 7 Jan. 2004.

This interview allowed us to understand the difficulties and struggles of immigration. We also learned about the many steps of the naturalization process, how long it takes, and the many problems he encountered during the naturalization process.

Staff writer, President George W. Bush's Immigration Policy Speech http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/print/20040107-3.html, January 7, 2004

Bush's speech gave us a full understanding of immigration conflicts and what will be resolved. It also shows some hope to those who are immigrants looking for jobs in the United States. We also used this site to get pictures for our site.

No name available, "The Fourteenth Amendment," http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html January 27, 2004.

This amendment gave us historical evidence that illegal immigrants are costing us more money and causing more of a dilemma. It played a part in making us realize our thesis was a failure and it helped us to formulate a much better one.

Interview, Conducted By Alexa Templeton

Templeton, Priscilla . Personal interview. 23 Oct. 2003.

This interview speaks about the times one woman had when she was in the middle of the naturalization process. She explains her views on this subject and her own story of immigration.

No name available, Ellis Island , www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/.../ EllisIsland.html, January 12, 2004

This picture helped us show the early age of immigration.

No name available, Angel Island, www-class.unl.edu/adrp/ flo/angelIsland.html, January 12, 2004

This picture helped us show the early age of immigration.

No name available, Illegal Immigrant Arrest, http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/03/05/16/arrest.jp January 14, 2004

This picture helped us prove the point that illegal immigrants are a hindrance for the United States.

No name available, Vicente Fox http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/images/0412-03.jpg Janurary 14, 2004

This picture helped us elaborate on the Bush/Fox Agreement.

No name available, Migrant Workers, www.mt.net/~reo/sharon4.htm, Januarys 14, 2004

This picture helped prove the point that illegal immigrants take the jobs as migrant workers and could be causing diseases to spread.

No name available, Deport Illegal Immigrants, www.azteca.net/aztec/ immigrat/deport.html, January 16, 2004

This political cartoon helped prove the point that the United States is having trouble finding a balance in immigration laws.

The American Nation; Davidson, James & Castillo, Pedro & Stoff, Micheal, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle New Jersey

This chart helped us show the Push/Pull effects of immigration.

No name available, Immigrants http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2003-02-20/focus/5&hl=en&h=225&w=240&start=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dillegal%2Bimmigrants%26start%3D120%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN January 16, 2004

This picture shows that immigrants in America are diverse.

No name available, Lost Illegal Immigrants, www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/ directory/l/lose.asp January 16, 2004

This political cartoon shows that we need to find a balance in the immigration laws.

No name available, Crossing Over the Border www.cnn.com/US/9604/ 13/mexican.border, January 17,2004

This picture proves the point that illegal immigrants will go to any extreme of getting into the country and America does not stop them.

No name available, Green Card, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/freud03.html January 17, 2004

This site provided some interesting immigration documents.

No name available, Immigrant family http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/foreign/immigrants.jpg January 18, 2004

This site gave us a picture of an early immigrant family. It showed us what that legal immigrants come to America to find a better life.

No name available, Ellis Island, http://www.italconsulnyc.org/Museo_Sala_4.htm, January 19, 2004

This picture helped us go back into the past and see what early immigration was like.

No name available, Illegal immigrants, http://members.westnet.com.au/jackhsmit/images/decisive-action2.gif, March 9, 2004

This picture was a help of proving that illegal immigrants are a hindrance and not a help to America.

No name available, Illegal immigrants, http://www.rivertowns.net/rustad/xru048.gif March 9, 2004

This picture proves that illegal immigrants are an impediment to America.

No name available, No Irish need apply, http://www.nvo.com/republican/nss-folder/cartoons/IMMIGRANTS.jpg , March 9, 2004

This political cartoon mocks the immigration laws of today, by saying that we should go back to the days where we did not letmany immih=grants do much in the country.

No name available, Illegal Immigrants, http://www.gurujeff.com/images/realaliens.jpg , March 8, 2004

This picture proves that illegal immigrants will go to any extent to get into the United States.

No name available, Immigration by the numbers, http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/.../ immignumbers.html March 8, 2004

This chart proves that the United States are not paying much attention to the border and that they need to balance the policies more.

No name available, Illegal immigrants 1992 http://www.heritage.org/research/features/ISSUES/96/immig_8.gif March 9, 2004

This chart shows where most illegal immigrants end up going.

No name available, Immigrants to the US by the decade http://www.immigrationguide.com/ig5.gif, March 9, 2004

This chart shows that immigration has increased by the years and will keep increasing.

No name available, Man Falls to Death Fleeing US Immigration Agents ,

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EEDE1F39F930A15752C0A960958260, March 1,2004

This article showed that illegal immigrants are causing troubles. It shows that illegal immigrants can cause the death of innocent ones.

No name available, The New Colossus, http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm March 10, 2004

This site gives the poem engraved on the statue of liberty written by Emma Lazarus.

Secondary Sources

This book is a story told from a daughter’s perspective, as the title suggests, of her father’s experience of going to America. This story is simple to follow and it easy enough for an 8 year old to comprehend. However, this book was better for pictures than information.

This book taught us about the background of Ellis Island and what the process of immigration was like. This book was very useful in the gathering of information about Ellis Island. It focused primarily on how difficult it was for families to get to the island itself, what kinds of things immigrants would do once they got inside, and what it was like to be headed off to a new land.

We used this book to give us information of the process of immigrants coming to America. It explained in a short story that most children about the age of 7 could understand about the history of how immigrants came to the United States starting in the 1800's. It gave us an explanation in short form about the basics of immigration.

This book explored both sides of legal and illegal immigrant dilemma. It was definitely the most helpful book we read. There were many points about legal and illegal immigration. The author explored both sides of the crisis very well. The information in this book was so valuable that it made us change our thesis statement.

This book explained the historical background of American immigrants and their journey to America. We found some good charts about early immigration, some good pictures, and information on what immigrants did after they settled in America. The author also explained how they were treated and how they got educated.

No name available, The American Immigration Home Page Date, http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/index.html, November 21, 2003.

This website explained the many different types of immigration today. It was a valuable source of information and charts. Parts of the site guided us in the thinking how to make up our own web page.

No name available, Settlers from the 1800s-1900s, http://www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/explore-WI/people/18-19.htm, November 19, 2003.

This site justifies the many different people who immigrated over the U.S., and it explained why people from different countries came to the United States.

No name available, Immigration By Continent of Residence, http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/ellis/images/multiline2.pdf, November 19, 2003

This site gave us charts and graphs regarding the number of immigrants by country, year, and country. Some of the graphs could be used on the site.

No name available, Polish Immigration into America, http://www.needham.k12.ma.us/High_School/cur/kane98/kane_p3_immig/Poland/Polish.htm, October 19, 2003.

This site explained why Polish people immigrated to America. There were also some interesting pictures on the web page.

No name available, Immigration, http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566973, December 20, 2003.

This site provided us with basic information about immigration. It explained why people immigrated to the United States and what they did there.

No name available, Polish Immigrants, http://www.newton.mec.edu/ward/hammer/immigration/immigration.html, November 19, 2003.

This site was about Polish immigrants and why they traveled to America. Although some of the information helped us form our thesis statement, it wasn’t very helpful because it was a fourth grade project.

No name available, Bush/Fox Forge Agreements on Immigration and Iraq, http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4314970.html, February 1, 2004.

This site was very important because it discussed the new immigration policies that George W. Bush and Vicente Fox agreed on.

No name available, National History Day, http://nationalhistoryday.org, November 19, 2003.

This site was crucial in forming our web site because it gave us the rules of how the project must be constructed, the steps of writing a process paper and an annotated bibliography.

No name available, Immigration Timeline, http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Timeline.html, March 5, 2004

This site showed an interesting and informative timeline about what laws came in to place about immigration.

No name available, Proposition 187, California's Anti Immigration Law http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~dhogan/classes/PropPage/PropHP.html, March 5, 2004

This site talked about a very important law about anti-immigration in California.

No name available, Famous Immigrants, http://www.ailf.org/notable/famous.htm March 10, 2004

This site helped us find out some famous immigrants.