Migration In USA

Today in class we talked about the migration problem with Central America and them crossing the border illegally. Here is an article that should show what I think. "U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested a member of the infamous Salvadoran MS-13 gang who admitted to authorities that he traveled with a caravan of Central American migrants who were hoping to qualify for asylum in America.
Agents arrested Jose Villalobos-Jobel, 29, shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday east of the Calexico Port of Entry on the U.S. side of the border, Customs and Border Protection said in a statementWednesday.
During questioning at the El Centro station, the Honduran citizen confessed that he is an active member of MS-13 and had intended to enter the country illegally after traveling to the U.S. with the caravan of thousands of other migrants. He is in custody pending his deportation back to Honduras.
President Trump has made MS-13 a priority in his crackdown on illegal immigration and said last month that the latest caravan, estimated to consist of as many as 7,000 people, contained MS-13 members.
“You’re going to find MS-13, you’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to find everything,” he said of the caravan travelers.
The gang was started in Los Angeles in the 1980s and has a large presence in El Salvador and other Central American countries, where it terrorizes locals. Several crimes perpetrated by its members have made national headlines in the U.S., including the September 2016 murder on Long Island of two young girls, ages 15 and 16.
In April, another MS-13 member, Herberth Geovani Argueta-Chavez, 18, was apprehended after illegally entering the U.S. with a group suspected to be part of the caravan that headed for the border last spring. He posed as an unaccompanied minor before police discovered his identity as an adult gang member.
COMMENTS

The president on Monday threatened to close the border permanently if Mexico does not help contain the wave of asylum seekers.:

Migration packet

Today in class we got a packet that was titled Migration. Instead of writing all of our notes today we had a packet and highlighted them. I didn't really like this. I felt confused a lot and lost. I like is better        when there is visuals because that is the kind of learner I am. In this packet however there was interregional and international migration. I found definitions for them that help me understand. "Noun. interregional migration (countable and uncountable, plural interregional migrations) (geography) Permanent movement from one region of a country to another." "International migration is a global phenomenon that is growing in scope, complexity and impact. Migration is both a cause and effect of broader development processes and an intrinsic feature of our ever globalizing world.

Migration

Today in class we talked about migration. This included immigration and emigration. Immigration is when people are coming in to the country and emigration is when people leave. Here is an article I like from Wikipedia that describes it very well. "Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location. The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is also possible; indeed, this is the dominant form globally. People may migrate as individuals, in family units or in large groups.^[1] A person who moves from their home to another place because of natural disaster or civil disturbance may be described as a refugee or, especially within the same country, a displaced person. A person seeking refuge from political, religious, or other forms of persecution is usually described as an asylum seeker.

Nomadic movements are normally not regarded as migrations as there is no intention to settle in the new place and because the movement is generally seasonal. Only a few nomadic people have retained this form of lifestyle in modern times. Also, the temporary movement of people for the purpose of travel, tourism, pilgrimages, or the commute is not regarded as migration, in the absence of an intention to live and settle in the visited places.

The number of migrants in the world 1960–2015.^[2]

Many estimates of statistics in worldwide migration patterns exist.

The World Bank has published its Migration and Remittances Factbook annually since 2008.^[3] The International Organisation for Migration(IOM) has published a yearly World Migration Report since 1999. The United Nations Statistics Division also keeps a database on worldwide migration.^[4] Recent advances in research on migration via the Internet promise better understanding of migration patterns and migration motives.^[5][6]

Substantial internal migration can also take place within a country, either seasonal human migration (mainly related to agriculture and to tourism to urban places), or shifts of population into cities (urbanisation) or out of cities (suburbanisation). Studies of worldwide migration patterns, however, tend to limit their scope to international migration.

The World Bank's Migration and Remittances Factbook of 2011 lists the following estimates for the year 2010: total number of immigrants: 215.8 million or 3.2% of world population. In 2013, the percentage of international migrants worldwide increased by 33% with 59% of migrants targeting developed regions.^[7] Almost half of these migrants are women, which is one of the most significant migrant-pattern changes in the last half century.^[7] Women migrate alone or with their family members and community. Even though female migration is largely viewed as associations rather than independent migration, emerging studies argue complex and manifold reasons for this.^[8]

Often^[quantify] a distinction is made^{[by whom?]} between voluntary and involuntary migration, or between refugees fleeing political conflict or natural disaster vs. economic or labor migration, but these distinctions are difficult to make and partially subjective, as the motivators for migration are often correlated. The World Bank's report estimates that, as of 2010, 16.3 million or 7.6% of migrants qualified as refugees. At the end of 2012, approximately 15.4 million people were refugees and persons in refugee-like situations - 87% of them found asylum in developing countries.^[7]

Structurally, there is substantial South-South and North-North migration, i.e., most emigrants from high-income O.E.C.D. countries migrate to other high-income countries, and a substantial part (estimated at 43%) of emigrants from developing countries migrate to other developing countries. The United Nations Population Fund says that "[while the North has experienced a higher absolute increase in the migrant stock since 2000 (32 million) compared to the South (25 million), the South recorded a higher growth rate.^[7] Between 2000 and 2013 the average annual rate of change of the migrant population in the developing regions (2.3%) slightly exceeded that of the developed regions (2.1%)"

pop quiz

Today in class we took a pop quiz and obviously were not expecting it. It was on paper that we had done about a week ago and it was a little hard, but I'm confident in my answers. The only questions that were hard were the ones that included the stage answers and knowing them. We hardly went over them and they were confusing. There were stages 1-5 and this was population and places. You would think that 1 is bad and 5 is the best, but no. They are all mixed up and weird. The best ones are in the middle like 3 and 4. After we took the test we are doing our blogs (this one) and it is helpful because this is our last day before break for thanksgiving. It is a five day break that I feel like we all need. In the end. This class was challenging but I liked it, and I am looking forward to break.

Human Geo

Today in class we went over the test. I did well on it and got an A. The test was pretty easy and the questions that I got wrong I just messed up stupidly. The test included CIA.gov website info, and other population statistics. There is an article about population that I would read to help me with certain things on the test. "PEOPLE & SOCIETY Population

326.6 million (July 2017 est.)
Population Growth Rate
0.81% (2017 est.)
Ethnic Groups
white 72.4%, black 12.6%, Asian 4.8%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.9%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2%, other 6.2%, two or more races 2.9% (2010 estimate); note – the US Census Bureau does not consider Hispanic to be a race or ethnic group; 16.3% of the US population is Hispanic as of 2010
Language
English 79%, Spanish 13%, other Indo- European 3.7%, Asian and Pacific island 3.4%, other 1% (2015 est.)
Religion
Protestant 46.5%, Roman Catholic 20.8%, Jewish 1.9%, Mormon 1.6%, other Christian 0.9%, Muslim 0.9%, Jehovah's Witness 0.8%, Buddhist 0.7%, Hindu 0.7%, other 1.8%, unaffiliated 22.8%, don't know/refused 0.6% (2014 est.)
Urbanization
urban population: 82.3% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: 0.95% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

as of July 2018"

Population density

Today in class we talked about population density. This includes how many people live in areas making them dense in population. For example, India has many many people and in some places they are literally on top of each other. There were also places like Alaska where there is only a few people per mile. Personally I would want somewhere in the middle but that's just me. We also took the test on our previous classes an I got an A on it so I am happy. On the test was series of questions that we had to answer off of a website called ww.cia.gov and it gave you the answers, you just had to find them. After that is when we went over the population density. In the end, I am glad that America (The Best Place On Earth) is not overpopulated right now, and I am glad I did well on my test.

test

Today in class we took a test. Here are my thoughts before it on my previous blog. "Today in class we talked about our up coming test. Our test will include using a website called www.cia.gov. It is a good website full of information. For example, here is a sliver of information they have on the U.S. "Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Since the end of World War II, the economy has achieved relatively steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology." In the end, I feel that this test will be easy and I will succeed on it." I was right in the end because it was really easy and I know I got a good grade on it.

Review for test

Today in class we talked about our up coming test. Our test will include using a website called www.cia.gov. It is a good website full of information. For example, here is a sliver of information they have on the U.S. "Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Since the end of World War II, the economy has achieved relatively steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology." In the end, I feel that this test will be easy and I will succeed on it.

Population Pyramid 2.0

Today in class we talked about population pyramids again. I found an article about them that I would like to share. "A population pyramid gives a clear picture of how a country transitions from high fertility to low fertility rate. The broad base of the pyramid means the majority of population lies between ages 0–14, which tells us that the fertility rate of the country is high and above population sub-replacement fertility level. The older population is declining over time due to a shorter life expectancy of sixty years.^[5] However, there are still more females than males in these ranges since women have a longer life expectancy. As reported by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women tend to live longer than men because women do not partake in risky behaviors. Also, Weeks' Population: an Introduction to Concepts and Issues, considered that the sex ratio gap for the older ages will shrink due to women's health declining due to the effects of smoking, as suggested by the United Nations and U.S. Census Bureau. Moreover, it can also reveal the age-dependency ratio of a population. Populations with a big base, young population, or a big top, an older population, shows that there is a higher dependency ratio. The dependency ratio refers to how many people are dependent on the working class (ages 15–64). According to Weeks' Population: an Introduction to Concepts and Issues, population pyramids can be used to predict the future, known as a population forecast. Population momentum, when a population's birth rates continue to increase even after replacement level has been reached, can even be predicted if a population has a low mortality rate since the population will continue to grow. This then brings up the term doubling time, which is used to predict when the population will double in size. Lastly, a population pyramid can even give insight on the economic status of a country from the age stratification since the distribution of supplies are not evenly distributed through a population." This is from Wikipedia, and it gives you all of the information about the pyramids. In the end, I find them a very interesting way of showing different countries.