Immigration Policy

1. Have you heard of the Dream Act?
A. Yes
B. No

2. If you come to the U.S. illegally as a child, should you be able to become a citizen?
A. Yes
B. No

3. If an illegal minor has good moral character and goes to college, should they be given a pathway to citizenship?
A. Yes
B. No

4. Who would you most likely give citizenship to?
A. An illegal immigrant with an American college diploma who displays "good moral character"
B. An illegal immigrant with an American high school diploma who displays "good moral character"
C. An illegal immigrant with no degree who displays "good moral character"
D. None
E. All

Method
In order to achieve randomness and an accurate sample, the poll was conducted during lunch and in between periods. To keep from only focusing on certain groups, interviews were done in the various areas of the campus including students as they were leaving early. Interviews were also conducted during different times of the day.

Margin of Error
Possible margins of error would include interviewing students as they are leaving campus or on there way to lunch or another class. Students may not give accurate answers based on these reasons because they may feel rushed. They may have a job to get to, be in a hurry to have lunch, or of course feel rushed knowing they have to be on class on time. Moreover, errors could have been made when analying/crunching the data.

---Total of each group---

Female	46
Male	54

Sports	40
No Sports	60

Honors	45
General	55

    

9th	13
10th	30
11th	38
12th	19

employed	41
Non employed	59

Clubs	75
No Clubs	25

QUESTION 1

1. Have you heard of the Dream Act?
A. Yes
B. No

Not many people have heard of the Dream Act due to insufficient background knowledge. For instance students in lower grade levels may have not taken classes that cover this subject.

A reason that more females have heard of this act may be due to females having more concern for issues like immigration. 

Students that are not involved in sports are more likely to have heard of this act due to having more time for other extra curricular activities such as studying.  

Honors students are more likely to have heard of this act due to their classes being upper level and how those classes go into more detail on issues like these.

Higher grade levels have a better chance of having heard of this act due to participating in a greater number of classes opposed to a younger student. The reason why the 9th and 11th graders have a greater number of students may be due to a change in curriculum or a margin of error on the part of the pollsters.

  

Employed students may have heard of this act because of their encounters with co-workers.

Students that participate in clubs are generally more active and with this comes more activity in school too. 

Question 2



2. If you come to the U.S. illegally as a child, should you be able to become a citizen?
A. Yes
B. No

A reason why students would favor yes for this question is because they place themselves in an immigrants shoes with the use of "you" in the question.

Females are generally more sympathetic and understanding to issues like these. 

Students that are not involved in sports have more time to become educated on issues like these and to learn about how a minor is innocent in this situation.

Honors students are generally more informed on issues such as immigration and therefore are able to generate an opinion while general education students tend to listen to their parents(who are generally Democrats because they live in Anthem)

Freshmen strongly supported child immigrants along with all other age groups.

Employed students tended to support those who traveled illegally as a child while those non employed suported the "alien" children with a lower ratio

Clubs usually don't discrimante and thus "club" students tend to be more liberal

Question 3

3. If an illegal minor has good moral character and goes to college, should they be given a pathway to citizenship?
A. Yes
B. No

Females tend to be more sympathatic and caring to minorities(due to their nuturing nature)

Sports usually tend to have all types of races and diversity

Honor students respect an immigrant who has worked hard to earn a college degree

11th grade is usually students first year of History where they learn a greater respect for immigrants who have struggled to survive in the United States

Employed students generally dont have time to research subjects such as immigration while non employed students have available free time

Clubs dont disciminate so the students in clubs don't discimante either

Question 4

4. Who would you most likely give citizenship to?
A. An illegal immigrant with an American college diploma who displays "good moral character"
B. An illegal immigrant with an American high school diploma who displays "good moral character"
C. An illegal immigrant with no degree who displays "good moral character"
D. None
E. All

Men tend to support immigrants who no sort of degrees while woman immigrants with a college education

Athletes tend to respect immigrants who have worked hard in life to earn a dgree as they, themselevs, work hard every day to becoma better athelete

General education students respect those who work hard and earn a degree, because to them it may seem like an immpossible acomplishment

10th and 11th graders have opposing views as you study World Hisory in 10th grade and onlu Us History in 11th grade

Non Employed students supported immigrants with a college degree and with good moral character because they realize that to earn a living one must earn a degree.

 Students in clubs were mixed with their answers as students in no extracurricular activites were to scarce to analyze

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