11-28-11 Articles

I very much enjoyed reading the articles that were posted on our blog this week. The most interesting one to me was bout the Hispanics and the drop out rate. Its quite remarkable to see how much some students work their butt's of for the better for themselves and how it will pay of later in life. But then again there are some slackers out there. I didn't know that Hispanics have a huge number when it comes to the drop out rate in NY! I didn't even think there is over 20 percent of drop out rate in the city of the students. Kind of sad to hear, but there are issues that come up with people now days and sometimes not all can be done to prevent it. There isn't the right kind of help and assistance to some individuals out there either when they need it... In the same way it's very inspirational to see the students that are doing good, going to school, pursuing a higher education and a degree, and looking for the better of their future!

I also checked out the last website and looked at the family tree from Heather Greenwood's family. I found it so interesting how much of a crayon box her family is. From Asians, whites, Blacks, and a mixture of all the race individuals in her family are! Both her parents are white of course she was of adopted, but so cool to see the other races that are so closely associated with her come in so many different colors!

Turkey is a MUST, but Butter Chicken is always on the menu!

Each year for Thanksgiving my family always has a traditional sit down turkey lunch and dinner this is one of the three holidays that we celebrate together and take time to cook up some of the most yummiest meals. Each year I have a tradition of making all the appetizers and desserts. Spinach dip, potato salad, and the sweets are always up to me. Not to mention I love to cook and bake! We also have a tradition of having butter chicken, since it is more on the heavier side eating this dish once a year does not hurt :D . Below I have shared with you all my families "secret" recipe for butter chicken. Happy Thanksgiving ALL!

My Families SECRET Recipe to 

Butter Chicken!

Ingredients

-1 tablespoon of chili powder

- 1/4 shallots of onion (finely cut up)

- 1 squeeze of lemon (for tangy taste)

-1 teaspoon of garlic paste

-1 tablespoon of olive oil

-1 packet of chicken breasts (cut up breasts into fine small pieces)

-1 teaspoon of garam masala

-1 teaspoon of ground cumin

-1/4 teaspoons of cayenne pepper

-2 pinches of salt and pepper

-1 packet of Indian butter (Makni)

-1 one packet of yogurt

-1 tablespoon of cornstarch

- 1 cup tomato sause 

Preparation

When preparing the butter chicken. First, take a pot and put 2 tablespoons of olive oil and the whole stick of the Indian butter. Along goes the lemon juice, ginger paste, garam masala, chili powder, and cumin. Then she gets the onions and mixes it until it gets golden brown, get the fine cut chicken and mixes all the ingredients together. Wait for about ten minutes to put in the yogurt. When it begins to get thick, she puts in the cornstarch, so the consistency can get a little more gravy like. Cook for about 15 mins and your butter chicken should look like a nice gravy, beautiful orange like color. 

Preferably eat with Nan, roti, or Jasmine rice. 

ENJOY!!!!!! 

 

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Alabama Article

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Immigration, the Justice Dept. and Alabama's schools

November 15, 2011 |  5:01 pm

Alabama schools had until Monday to comply with a federal request for information about its Latino students. And so far, it appears as if local officials are working to meet the deadline despite threats to the contrary by some state officials.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday that it is working with 39 local school districts to obtain data on student absences and other information. The Obama administration says it needs the information to determine whether a new state law is discouraging Latino students, including U.S. citizen children, from attending school.

Alabama enacted a controversial anti-immigration measure earlier this year. A key provision requires school districts to check the immigration status of all students. That has led to legal challenges, including one brought by the Obama administration. A federal appeals court has put the measure on hold pending a trial.

Alabama Atty. Gen. Luther Strange, however, isn't happy about the government's intervention. He has repeatedly questioned the Justice Department's authority. And this month he wrote the Justice Department demanding that officials provide his office with the legal justification for requesting the student data. That prompted  DOJ's top civil rights attorney, Thomas Perez, to write back that he has authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Now, it turns out that it's the attorney general who may not have legal standing to intervene.  Strange's office said it represents Alabama's schools superintendent, not the individual school districts.

The federal government has repeatedly warned school officials around the country that they must comply with Plyler vs. Doe,  the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established that students cannot be denied an education because of their immigration status.

In the end, it may not matter who has legal standing if the only thing that is achieved is turning Alabama's schools into a battleground. 

THE CHANGE THAT IS BEING REQUIRED BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS NOW TO BE A CHALLENGE. SO MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KIDS ARE BEING DEPORTED BACK TO THERE HOMELANDS. ". A key provision requires school districts to check the immigration status of all students. That has led to legal challenges, including one brought by the Obama administration. A federal appeals court has put the measure on hold pending a trial" (LA TIMES). SINCE THE STATE DOES HAVE MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HOW ARE THEY SUBJECTED TO CHECK EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL? I DO FEEL BAD FOR THE KIDS, THEY ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG, I UNDERSTAND WHAT THERE PARENTS HAD DONE TO GET HERE WAS FOR THE BEST OF THERE FAMILIES.

FEELS LIKE THE SCHOOLS ARE IN A RACE WITH ALL THESE CHECKINGS OF STUDENTS. ALABAMA IS NOT THE ONLY STATE DOING THE CHECKINGS, BUT A FEW MONTHS AGO WE HAD TOP UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BACKGROUNDS BEING CHECKED. I FEEL LIKE IF THE STUDENT IS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG, THEY ARE ACHIEVING A HIGHER EDUCATION TO BETTER THERE LIVES, THEN WHY NOT LET THEM LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH OPPERTUNITIES?

Chapter 16 & 17

Reading through chapter sixteen showed many of the old information being brought up in to much more better understanding and perspectives. There were few sentences that I liked very much and wanted to bring them up in my blog.

"The United States is a nation without meaningful control of its borders. So many Mexicans are crossing U.S borders illegally that Mexicans are reclaiming Texas, California, and other territories that they have long claimed the Gringos stole from them". 

"The argument was an old one: Germans, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, French Canadians, Italians, Jews, and almost every conceivable immigrant group have been, at one time or the other, accused of lowering the American standard of living, and the question of the impact of immigration on the standard of living is a debate without one". 

"After five years of debate congress finally passed the immigration act in 1986 following same last compromises". 

"Amnesty was the carrot of the 1986 act (eligibility requirements and sanctions against employers who persisted in hiring illegal aliens contrary to law)".

"Law specified three different kinds of documents, A,B, and C. A was established eligibility and identity was the best, Americans possessed them. B and C were lists that established employment eligivility and identity respectively. Chinese can be B and C there restaurant fashion, they use a list then a document from list C be4 they can be hired illegaly. List B also consisted of Social security card. List C consisted of DL". 

"Unlike Haitians the Irish were well educated".

"Since most of the Irish illegals came here after Jan 1, 1982, cutoff date in 1986 amnesty law- only few hundred were granted amnesty". (Irish Immigration Reform Movement). 

"There is one further reason to believe that immigration will retain its central position on the American agenda". 

(Daniels) 

Chapter 17 talks more in detail about immigration.

 There are many reasons illegal immigrants cross borders and such circumstances they do because of better oppertunity in a certain state or country. There are many ways they do it and succeed. The one downside about immigration is if you are here living illegally, there is no guarantee you will remain in the state you are in. Officials do catch people and they do not have much sympathy for people when it is time to deport them back. For example, the "Dream Act". There are so many illegal immigrants that are going to school, finding better jobs, and oppetunities. They are striving for the best, the only downside about them is they are classified as "illegal". Does not matter how much you are working hard to support your family or where you are going to school if you are caught you are deported back without and second chances.

Chapter 15

Chapter five teen has a lot of interesting information regarding the Caribbean's, Central Americans, and the Soviet Jews. The section of the chapter that drew interest to me was reading about the Dominican and Haitian people. I found out that Dominicans people had entered in the US  by tourist visas and many of them had came. The Dominican American population were high in the East coast areas mainly in Long Island and New York area. Most of them came here in by migration and most of them worked in garment factories. The book also stated that most women worked as maids. In our community, we do not really see many Dominican people, but in the East Coast is where most of them are. I remember watching MTV and some of the episodes of the TV shows are consisted of much more Italian people along with Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. 

The Haitian people are in contrast with the Dominicans. Haiti is known as one of the most poorest countries in our world today. It is described as one of the "desperate" countries. There is not very many Haitian people in the US, but the areas that there is the most are communities in Miami which is known as "Little Haiti". The Haitian community has grown much more than the 1980's in various parts of the US. The biggest natural disaster that had struck Haiti a few years ago was a very sad and traumatic event that had disrupted and damaged so many people in the country. Think about living in a country that is poor as it is and they don't have much resources, just got struck by a natural disaster. Thankfully, many countries including the USA at the largest helped the community with food, clothing, water, construction ,and rebuilding the country for the people to living in and be happy is the biggest change someone (s) can contribute. 

Chapter 13 & 14

Changing the Rules: Immigration Law 1948-1980

The immigration acts of 1924 had brought the national origins system into role until 1965. Most of the people such as Chinese, Filipino's, and Indians were all eligible to naturalization at the time. Asian Indians were residents in the United states. There were many changes that came after the Cold War, due to its high influence in immigration laws. 

The Displaced Person's Act was an act that had helped the indivuiduals that were persecuted by Nazi government who were fleeing persecution, and someone who could not back to their country because of persecution based on race, religion, or political opinions. The interesting thing that I found was the growth of Asian Immigration were more starling from 3 percent of all immigrants in 1940's rose to 6 percent and in the 1950's it rose 13 percent. Dramatic rises of Asian immigrants at the time. Another important aspect I had found interesting was when individuals come to a country, stay here, then sponsor there families. For example, an immigrant from Vietnam can come, receive there citizenship, then begin to call over there children if they have any back home, wives, and then eventually there parents within a period of five to eight years. 

New Asian Immigrants Chapter 14


Asian American immigrants population had been a huge growth by the 1980's. The chapter had many interesting facts about Asian American's (Japanese and Chinese), Filipino's, Asian Indians, Koreans, and Vietnamese. I found reading about Asian Indians to be the most fascinating part of the chapter =] . Short story about my fathers story, which some of the information from the chapter shows similarities with his life. My fathers family had came from India to the United States mostly during the late nineteenth century and some of early twentieth century. My fathers father and his father had came to the US by a plane from Jalendar, India in 1968. Most of them when they came to United States had came to California, since my dad was sponsored by his elder brother and sister-in law. He had came here in 1982 and resided in San Mateo, CA. Their was not many Indians mainly Punjabi's living in the area of San Mateo at the time. Most of them stayed up in Sacramento Valley (Central) and South Bay. 
 My father is of Sikh origin and when many Sikh's had came to California they went straight to Yuba City or San Jose. Yuba City reminds them of how back home looks, due to the fields in India and resemblance's of back home. They bought fields and houses and started their own community where they brought most of the land. Many people had bought land to build Sikh Temples (Gurdwara's) to have a sense of religion and togetherness in the community. The ones that came to San Jose had invested into more businesses,hotels, gas stations, and  cab companies. 

The story I found interesting to read about was Dalip Singh Saund who was born in Amritsar, India in an illiterate family. He had left during the Amritsar "massacre" fled to America where he pursued a higher education and obtained many degrees in his life time. Lived in Imperial Valley (Yuba City) Sikh and enclaved and worked as a rancher eventually a business man. Later, got married to an upperclass Czech American women, the most important cause his wife and he brought was the freedom for India and citizenship for Asian Indian in the US. He was highly involved in politics. 
Chapter 14 had many interesting information about each of the different Asian groups we have today. I better understand most of its history and the dramatic growth in our day today. What we had 51 years ago is quite different than what many will call a "change" today.

Chapter 11

Chapter eleven was filled with a lot of information. The class was divided up into reading three different sections. My group and I had read about the Asian American's which was the last section. Some interesting facts I found while reading are listed below.

-Depression of 1920's

-Five million immigrants ignored

-South "blacks" used GREAT MIGRATION places such as Chicago, which had alot of Mexican immigrants.

- "Emergency quota act"-1921

"1924 extended acts"

-Labor shortages during WW II

-Bracero Program

-Women roles in US at the time

-Japanese immigrants roles
-Canada and Mexico- so manu of the individuals did not have the quota act because they knew labor from Mexico.
-New American's had got visa's
-Some people left because they wanted to go back to their own country and be the status they were than being in a country that is rich
-Jews were discriminated
-Anyone with Jewish blood was tainted

-Chinese Exclusion Act
-Chinese in allels in 1882.
-Chinese were more in the agricultural work and Mexicans in labor work
-During WWI German's were very mistreated.
-American immigration law was discriminatory toward Chinese.
-105 Chinese quota slots
-War years had a labor shortage after the glut of unemployment in 1930's.
-When Chinese emigrated to US, 10,000 were women that to nonquota wives.