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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A During the Obama administration, the number of deportees has dramatically decreased
B The DREAM act offers a legalization path for some unauthorized immigrant youth
C Youth advocate groups such as United We Dream have been among the most vocal
D An important issue addressed by advocacy groups is changing the negative perceptions of Latino immigrants
Question #2
A Excluded ICE and operated solely at the local level
B Was focused solely on workers in the agricultural sector
C Led to many arrests, but no deportations
D Led to a rapid increase in the number of arrests, mostly of violent criminals
E researchers found no evidence that the increased Latino population contributed to increasing crime rates
Question #3
A established English as the city’s only official language
B helped to create an environment that was more open to unauthorized immigrants
C was immediately deemed unconstitutional and its influence did not spread to other parts of the US
D was never enacted in the Pennsylvania town
Question #4
A Focus primarily on immigration into California
B Was largely a reaction to the Mexican peso devaluation of the 1980s
C Is enforced by a renegade border control group known as the “Minutemen”
D Did not have a significant impact on the number of deportees
E Allows for individuals to be tried in court all at once to expedite deportations
Question #5
A Was not passed by California voters
B Was first introduced to block the wave of immigrants in the 1960s
C Was passed by California laters, but later declared unconstitutional
D Was concerned mostly with taxing undocumented migrants working in California
Question #6
A The US Border Patrol was established in the 1980s following the devaluation of the Mexican Peso
B Very few Cubans entered the US prior to the Cuban Revolution in 1959
C The first significant wave of migrants from Latin America was during World War I to fill labor needs
D “Operation Wetback” during the 1950s deported more than four million Mexicans
E The Bracero Program brought in industrial workers to work in factories during World War II
Question #7
A ideas of racial and ethnic superiority would diminish
B It would be viewed as a more fluid space
C destabilize notions of Latin America as a bounded space
D Migration would be viewed as less significant
Question #8
A local officials are less interested in enforcing federal policy
B integration with non-Latino populations is evident throughout the country
C boundaries exist solely along racial lines (not economic or social)
D new spatial constructions have emerged that restrict integration
Question #9
A southern states
B New York City
C the midwest
D California
E rural and suburban areas
Question #10
A Florida
B Virginia
C Washington
D Nevada
E California
