Class of 2025 Learning Outcomes
During LLII, the Class of 2025 will understand how the United States immigration system works, including its inefficiencies and the obstacles its process creates for immigrants and refugees. They will identify the challenges immigrants and refugees face once in the United States, including socioeconomic status, access to services, job security, language barriers, racism, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and schooling. They will identify the steps national leaders are taking to reform and develop immigration policies, and how these policies affect immigrants within the United States. Lastly, they intend to explain how leaders analyze complex problems within the immigrant community to identify practical solutions to challenges faced by immigrants.
Required Reading/Viewing
Background:
- Let’s Talk: Immigration
- How the American Immigration System Works
- “Why Don’t They Just get in Line”
- Inefficiencies of Legal Path for Undocumented Immigrants
- ICE Director on Due Process
- Detained Migrant Children Speak
Specific Topics:
- Challenges Facing Immigrants
- Pandemic Challenges
- How Racism Hurts Immigrants
- What it’s like to be the child of immigrants
- Challenges Immigrant Students Face
- The Law that Broke US Immigration
- ICE Should be Fixed, Not Abolished
- Ukraine: US Lawmakers Push for Reform
- COVID Immigration Policy
- How Biden’s Policy Shifts are Impacting Immigrants
- Cristina Jimenez on Questioning Authority
- VISA Backlog
- Solutions for the United States and Mexico to Manage the Migration Crisis
Recommended Readings:
- What Deportation Looks Like
- How the United States Immigration System Works
- Trauma and Art as Activism
- Family Preparing for ICE Raids
- COVID Immigration Policy
- Joe Biden’s Immigration Proposals
- Argument Against Abolishing ICE
- Feds/State Fight Over Immigration Policy
- Sara Mora Activism in Social Media
- Immigration Policy Solution Example
- Immigration Cases in Supreme Court
- Challenges Facing Immigrants
- Astrid Silva on Confronting Authority
For more information about LLII and Park enrichment experiences, visit park.ncsu.edu/the-park-experience/leadership/#llii