Take Action

Katharine Says:

Looking online for something to take part in regarding immigration was an uplifting experience. there are many websites with prompts for telephone calls and emails to send to local representatives to get them aware of the issue and to jumpstart immigration reform. For my take action I found a website, http://act.americasvoiceonline.org/page/content/vote/ where there were many different take action links related to immigration. I decided to send one to House Speaker John Boehner telling him to vote on  path toward citizenship. I decided to send one to him because it seems like the idea, but has blocked votes to have this reform go forward. I also hear a lot about him in the news when it came to the Government shutdown, so I decided to go right to the source. Immigration reform is close to being passed so calling or emailing the representatives or political figures about them will show them that we do care and want change. The more people to take action the more notice these political people will receive. This could be the information they need to pass these bills. It took me literally five minutes to find this site, fill out the email and send it. This is nothing in the scheme of things. I am glad I could be one more voice to tell someone to push towards immigration reform.

Reflection:

Before I started research and learning more about immigration today I new very minimal. And from the beginning my thoughts really had no back up evidence. Doing this blog made me realize that current events are actually something teachers should teach students and immigration is one I will bring up. Immigration if different from centuries before so children should know the difference. They should also know about the laws that we have and don't have and see how these effect the people. I think that history is being made today with the talk of reform and that will be an important part to bring up in our classrooms. Most people come from someone who immigrated so it can be related to a wide range of students. For older grades, maybe doing a blog like this one will keep them researching and leaning more. I know I learned more than I thought I would. I have done blogs before for other classes, but this is the first one for a cause and event that effects everyone today, even if you cannot see a direct relation.