READING + VOCABULARY LESSON | Immigration in the US 🇺🇸
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0:00 hey everyone uh my name is wes this is interactive english thank you guys so much for joining me today uh
0:10 so this lesson is all about um it's it's it's about immigration is the topic that we're going to be learning
0:21 today but it is a reading and vocabulary lesson so let me kind of explain what we're going to do
0:28 uh i've chosen this topic um which is something that i think all of us can relate to in one way or another
0:36 immigration it's something it's something that's happening all over the world people will move to other countries to live permanently for
0:44 work or for education or more opportunities and what we're going to do is look at a few different articles that
0:51 are related to immigration and i'm going to pick out some useful vocabulary words that i think will help you
0:59 uh with with your comprehension that if you're going to talk about this topic or perhaps you're reading another
1:07 article about this topic or you're even listening to um a news report then i think this is going to help you better understand um immigration
1:20 and it's it's just going to help you build your overall vocabulary okay so let's let's begin with uh the the other thing i wanted to
1:31 tell you about is that you may notice that uh this on this video there's like a donate button or uh this video is a fundraiser because
1:41 what we've decided to do my wife and i and our little girl uh emmy we've decided that this month because it's we're we're getting to the end of 2000
1:52 um 2020 it hasn't been a very good year i think that most of us would agree that this year has not been the best because of the pandemic
2:06 what we want to do is we want to highlight some different uh charities that we think are doing some good work uh
2:12 and we're gonna make a donation and we've just decided to make the video like a fundraising event if other people would like to make a
2:18 donation if you don't want to that that's perfectly fine um but we're going to look at let me show you and we're going to kind of lead
2:26 into it i'm going to come back to this at the end of the lesson so we're going to highlight freedom
2:32 university and we're going to kind of lead into this throughout the lesson i'm going to start with some articles
2:39 we'll go over the vocabulary and then eventually uh at the end i'll talk to you a little bit about freedom university what they're doing
2:46 why we chose to highlight this charity and give you a little more information about that but that's just something we wanted to do
2:55 this month so next saturday and the following saturday it's going to be the same thing we're going to do reading and vocabulary about a topic
3:03 and i'm gonna be doing some fundraising and highlight uh a charity i do want to give a quick little uh shout out to everybody with me hello
3:11 uh cthulhu solo welcome excellent new member awesome uh hi takayo nekla uh maggie good morning um
3:21 gertrudis how are you angela thank you guys for joining me so what i really hope is that after this lesson
3:29 you'll be able to understand the topic a little more as well as build your vocabulary because i do i have a
3:35 i have a vocabulary list for you guys which we're going to get to all of these words uh after we do some reading and what i
3:42 will do is i will include all of this down in the description i will include links to the articles
3:48 if you would like to read them because we're only going to read parts of the article i'll also include a list of the
3:54 vocabulary words in case you want to review so the reason why i chose immigration i mentioned this before that i think it's
4:03 something that everybody understands because it pretty much in all countries there are immigrants that may be living
4:11 there for work or for education or perhaps there are people that you know that are maybe trying to
4:18 immigrate to other countries so let's start with this article um right here okay and this is just talking about um
4:29 around the world all right how do people view immigrants and in this research study that they did it said more people
4:37 in most countries view them as a strength rather than a burden let's look at two of those words
4:44 right there in that title right there i wanted to basically been because our topic is immigration to
4:51 talk about immigrant and uh if you don't know what a burden means so right here if we go over to our vocabulary list okay here we go
5:02 so an immigrant as you can see is a person who comes to a different country to live there permanently and you would refer to
5:13 this person as an immigrant now this is a noun because we're talking about a person but be aware that you could use this as
5:22 a verb to um to immigrate uh or as a noun immigration all right and the meaning is pretty much
5:34 the meaning is the same because you're always going to be referring to people that move to a different country in order to live there permanently now
5:45 again i'm going to throw some other vocabulary at you be careful because another word that's similar
5:52 um emigrate uh whoops maybe i misspelled that emigrate is talking about a person who leaves
6:02 um a country in order to move to another one this is something some people might confuse those words
6:12 um to immigrate or to emigrate with an e so immigrate you're really going to the country emigrate you're leaving the country so the way that you
6:23 understand the difference would be the preposition that follows you immigrate to another country because you're going
6:30 to there and you would emigrate from because you're leaving a country so you emigrate from another country so this good
6:40 vocabulary and sometimes those those words may be confused so um another what i want to say because uh
6:50 another reason why i'm doing i chose this topic is because i think there are a lot of people um that watch
6:56 these lessons that are uh immigrants that may be living in the united states which is where i am from i'm from the u.s and i
7:05 i kind of wanted to again i think that is an important topic it's an important topic in the us and we are going to focus
7:12 um some of the articles afterwards about the the us and what's going on so i wanted to talk to you about those first
7:19 a couple words like uh immigrants are more than a strength and a burden an immigrant person who comes to a different country
7:27 to live there permanently a burden would be talking about something that is a heavy load that you carry now often you might say that
7:35 you're carrying something it's heavy and you're like oh this is a burden it's too difficult
7:41 in this context the article is saying well immigrants are a strength it's a good thing if they're saying it's a burden then
7:47 people would say oh it's not a good thing so be aware of that context as to how people are using it
7:54 so let's go back to um let's go to our article all right what i'm going to do is i'm just going to read
8:03 some of the article and then i'll talk to you about a few more words as we go through this and again there
8:12 are i will leave links down in the description all right so it's talking about public divided on
8:20 immigrants willingness to adopt host country's customs so i'm going to read some because we're going to come back to that
8:28 word adopt all right so if we go down and i'll just read a little bit of this so it says majorities of publics
8:38 in top migrant destination countries say immigrants strengthen their countries according to a 2018 pew research center survey of 18
8:48 countries that host half of the world's migrants in in ten of the countries surveyed
8:54 majorities view immigrants as a strength rather than a burden among them are some of the largest migrant receiving countries in the world the united states
9:03 germany the united kingdom france canada and australia each hosting more than 7 million immigrants in 2017. by contrast in five countries surveyed
9:14 hungry greece south africa russia and israel see immigrants as a burden to their countries with the exception of russia
9:22 those countries each have fewer than 5 million immigrants meanwhile public uh just read the rest of that
9:29 meanwhile public opinion on the impact of immigrants is divided in the netherlands in italy and poland more say immigrants
9:37 are a burden while substantial shares in these countries do not lean one way or the other
9:42 31 or 20 respectively okay so let's go back and talk about this first part um because this is part of i think um
9:53 immigration when people come to live in another country and then that first that that subtitle where it says public's divided on immigrants his
10:01 willingness to adopt host country's customs so let's look at that word adopt because i think it's very important
10:09 um adopt and adapt when you're talking about immigration so if i go back over here to our vocabulary list if you want to
10:18 know what the difference is so we talked about the difference between um to immigrate is to go to another country to emigrate
10:26 is to leave a country adopt is when you start to accept you accept or you start to use something new
10:37 so it basically becomes a part of your customs to adapt is to change in order to survive or become more comfortable in a
10:47 situation so if you think about let's think about immigration if you go to another country and you're
10:54 going to live there i think first off most people would adapt they're becoming they're trying to
11:02 become comfortable in this new country perhaps it's a new language a new job new traditions new food and
11:10 you want to adapt over time people may likely adopt to some of these customs and norms and traditions
11:20 and then it becomes part of their lives so let me give you an example um we just had the in in the united states
11:29 you just had the the thanksgiving holiday so for example somebody may move to the united states
11:37 um from any country in south america central america africa asia it doesn't matter but perhaps somebody moves from a country
11:46 that does not celebrate thanksgiving and then they start living in the u.s and over time they may start celebrating
11:55 this holiday it's not really it's not a religious holiday it's really uh part of u.s history so that that is
12:02 one example as to how people may adopt and they start celebrating a holiday such as thanksgiving so this can be um
12:14 again when you think of immigration again this is something that people might talk about whether or not people are adopting to a country
12:23 and the culture and the traditions or maybe they're they're not adopting so the one thing i definitely want you guys to distinguish is the
12:31 difference between adapt and adopt i think first people will adapt and then over time they will adopt
12:39 certain traditions the next word it's talking about a migrant because again these are words that are very similar when you think of immigrant
12:48 or migrant a migrant it refers to a person who travels to a different country or place
12:55 temporarily usually to find work so one thing you may notice in some of these articles or if you're listening to a news report
13:06 people may use immigrant and then they may use the word migrant and you might be wondering well why why are they using these different words
13:15 the the one difference i want you to understand is when you think of an immigrant think of that that is somebody who is more
13:23 permanent that you are planning to stay in that country a migrant is possibly it's just going to be temporary you're going to live in another country and
13:33 then you're you're going to leave for example i've lived in some different countries teaching english i
13:39 i've i've never really stayed i was in korea for three years um the dominican republic for one year in namibia for one year
13:47 and i guess you could say that i i was more of a migrant i was there working temporarily and then i left the reason why i think
13:55 people will use them um together sometimes is because typically somebody may come to another country
14:04 as a migrant and then they end up staying perhaps they fall in love they get married perhaps they
14:11 continue working at this job and they stay in the country and then they become an immigrant because it's going to be more permanent so
14:21 again i know i'm i'm giving you words and trying to really give you a little bit of a nuance so you understand the difference so an
14:29 immigrant think of a person who is more going to stay and live permanently a migrant is somebody that
14:36 may be there just temporarily but if they stay then you could say they are really becoming an immigrant uh
14:44 substantial uh in the article we saw let's go back how was it used um so they're talking about
14:53 um substantial because i wanted to go over that word for you ah so it says while a substantial in these countries do not lean one way or the
15:05 other substantial is just talking about a large or no it's just talking about a value size or an amount of something
15:16 often you're going to follow this word um with the word amount a substantial amount of something so if you're talking about
15:24 substantial it just refers to a large large in size value or or importance another thing that i thought was
15:33 interesting about this article many of you don't you may not know i am from the united states but right now i live in hungary uh
15:43 and i found this interesting because in hungary according to this research uh most people view immigrants as a burden
15:53 that it's not really um perhaps a very strong immigrant friendly country but this is actually where i am right
16:00 now um i'm living in hungary i don't i would not say that i'm going to stay so again i'd probably i'd be more of a migrant
16:08 i'm here i'm living uh i'm working and then i may move somewhere else all right so that is the first article
16:16 kind of just talking about immigration in general now what i want to do is look at the next one okay and talk about which which talks about
16:31 more immigration in the united states so again this is a little more of this is definitely more of an advanced article
16:41 uh i would say so let's go back to the site right here um okay and this is the next article that i wanted to look at so
16:55 let's see hold on one second okay so this article is talking about a new paradigm um a new paradigm for humane and
17:07 effective immigration enforcement this is from the center for american progress i will go ahead and tell you
17:14 this is a more liberal um a liberal organization so again this article is more about the immigration
17:24 policy in the united states the organization does not agree with it they don't like it and that is um the reason for this
17:32 article but there are some useful words i think that are related to immigration so a new paradigm for humane
17:40 and effective immigration enforcement you kind of get the idea let's look at some of the vocabulary that
17:47 um i think is useful so if you're wondering well what is a paradigm a paradigm is talking about a model for something in this case
17:56 it's talking about the way the government is trying to handle immigration so the paradigm it's trying to say we need a
18:03 new paradigm a new model for handling immigration one that is humane and effective so if you if you're talking about something
18:13 is humane it is an adjective and it just means kind of like showing sharing uh kindness
18:21 care and showing sympathy towards others especially people that might be suffering in some way so this again it's saying that it does
18:32 not agree with the u.s policy on immigration you need a new paradigm one that is more humane
18:41 so let's again i'm going to read some of this um and then we'll talk a little bit about it so let me go down
18:49 here over here to the article ah okay so again i'll read you can just listen and follow along and then we'll look at some of the
18:58 vocabulary it says in recent decades detention and deportation have become the entirety of america's immigration enforcement strategy
19:06 this will strike many perhaps even most americans as both intuitive and inevitable how else is a nation uh to enforce its
19:14 immigration laws but u.s immigration and customs enforcement ice which is the the government agency
19:22 that handles immigration and customs ice is for sure um ice mass detention and deportation strategy
19:30 is in fact both a sharp break from historic norms and neither the only nor the most effective way to enforce
19:37 immigration law as a result of isis unprecedented mass deportation agenda the united states now spends more on federal immigration enforcement
19:46 than all federal criminal law enforcement combined and has removed more than twice as many people in the first two decades of the
19:53 21st century as the entire previous history of the united states the brutality and enormous investment of
20:00 immigration enforcement have created a well-documented humanitarian disaster that is increasingly driven the american public to reject
20:08 isis heavy-handed tactics however less well-organized are the ways in which the agency's enforcement enforcement-only approach
20:16 has utterly failed as a law enforcement strategy let's look at some of those words again i told you that this
20:24 is from um this organization is very critical of the immigration policy they want a new paradigm a new model and let's look at some of those other words
20:35 um from this article right here so we're talking about a detention center which detention uh if somebody it comes into the country
20:46 illegally the in the us these people might end up in a in detention they call it detention and what that refers to is
20:55 um the act of detaining somebody to detain is to keep somebody in one place and they have these detention centers
21:05 which people might equate to kind of like a jail until they figure out okay uh until the people are deported so then
21:14 you have that next word um deportation is talking about the act of forcing somebody to leave a country especially someone that
21:24 does not have a right to be there deportation is uh the noun so we're talking about the noun deportation
21:34 and the verb is to deport so again uh we can use this in different ways uh the meaning is kind of the same
21:44 to uh whoops sorry i'm gonna add to deport and then you might be referring to a person so to to deport
21:55 someone is when you would be making this person leave the country to deport so this is the situation where people
22:04 might be detained again i'm now using the word in different ways they may be detained and kept somewhere
22:10 and then later on then they are deported they are made to leave the country and they talk about this word i chose to
22:18 use this word the article mentions unprecedented this is a word that we've heard i think a lot in 2020 especially in the united states
22:28 people talk about things that are happening it's never happened before you would say that it's
22:34 unprecedented so again this article is critical very critical of the u.s policy the immigration policy that they don't like it people are
22:44 detained and then deported and the other thing they say it also goes against the historic norms so this kind of gets into the
22:52 history a little more of the history of the united states that traditionally historically i think the united states is viewed as a country
23:02 that has always been very open to accepting immigrants and people coming to the u.s for work uh for education to just start a new life
23:13 it has a history like that and what this article was criticizing is that they're saying well we're moving away from that history
23:22 not really just in the last four years but in the last couple of decades they they've really become a little more aggressive
23:30 with um detaining illegal immigrants and deporting them and that is why this article was asking for a new paradigm
23:39 again i'm trying to use these words again so that you may start to recognize them a new paradigm a new model that they want uh that is more humane
23:49 that is showing a little more kindness a little more caring all right so again um these words are going to be down in the description
23:57 if you would like to review i would encourage you um i'm also going to leave links to these articles if you want to keep following up on them
24:07 alright uh let's uh let's look at the last one and then at the end i'll try to take some questions if you guys have them
24:16 the last article kind of involves the charity that i want to highlight which is freedom university so if we go back over to uh
24:24 the website um right here okay so here this is freedom university educating undocumented
24:34 young people in georgia so this is kind of like an informal university and it's talking about undocumented young people
24:42 i'll i'll explain this um a little more in just a bit so it says um if somebody is uh an immigrant you know that this person
24:53 is now they they live in another country and they're doing so permanently if you say somebody is undocumented did i have that word
25:02 uh let's see down here um yes okay just so uh we can go ahead and look at this so if something is
25:12 undocumented uh you can say it's not supported by written proof so you can use this word
25:19 in different ways but if you're talking about a person who is undocumented it would be a person who is
25:26 living in the country that they they don't have documentation that says they can stay there that they can live there and you may hear
25:35 people talk about an undocumented immigrant so those that's like a collocation you may hear those words used together
25:43 people might refer to an undocumented immigrant a person who is living in another country but they don't have papers they may not have
25:51 a visa to support that so this article let's go back to it and then i'm going to read a little portion of it and then we'll look at some other words
26:02 so it says fewer than one percent of the 11.2 million u.s undocumented undocumented immigrants have completed any type of college degree in the united
26:13 states and only 16 percent of undocumented college-age young people are enrolled in institutions of higher
26:20 learning this is the result of many factors including restrictive policies in some states an exclusion from all forms of federal financial aid across
26:29 the country dr laura mikko soltis is working to change this she leads freedom university in atlanta a modern
26:37 day freedom school for undocumented young people that offers free college level classes college application assistance
26:45 and liberatory spaces for learning her goal is to empower undocumented young people and advance their human right to
26:53 education okay so it's talking about uh providing undocumented uh students these are college-age students with
27:01 higher learning and she hopes to empower them okay so let's look at to go back there those are the words that i'm going to
27:11 focus on so higher learning is talking about college or university level so if you ever see those two words
27:19 somebody's talking about higher learning they're just talking about college or university and in this case it's offering uh undocumented students
27:29 higher classes of higher learning hoping to empower them if you want to empower somebody it means that you want to
27:37 give them the authority or freedom to do something i think all of this can agree that um education is so
27:47 important education is very important and it definitely empowers people it provides people with more opportunities to work and make more
27:55 money uh it provides people with opportunities to communicate with others like right now like this interactive english
28:02 the whole channel is about trying to help you practice and improve your english skills which hopefully will
28:10 empower you later on if you want to get a job or perhaps if you're traveling and you can communicate with people so that is what freedom university is
28:20 all about um i've actually i discovered freedom university to just show you give you a little bit of a background as
28:28 to how i came across it it was actually um this uh it's kind of like a documentary is it's somebody who's a comedian
28:37 and they do these documentaries and they highlight a serious topic and they try to do it in a little bit more of an entertaining way so that
28:45 people may pay attention to it but this is the right here it says up top there the terrifying situations undocumented people face i will put
28:55 another link down in the description if you would like to watch this video it's great for your listening practice and it will help you understand a little
29:04 bit more about what freedom university is all about but i told you that again this uh this lesson right here
29:13 is a fundraiser my wife and i and emmy we're gonna make a 50 donation to freedom university um which is right here you can see the site
29:23 uh and again i'll leave a link in the description and it's really talking about
29:28 un empowering these young people that are undocumented to give them a better chance because in the united states um this is
29:36 like a side topic there are there's a thing called well daca which refers to basically that some uh maybe immigrants came to
29:47 united states they were undocumented they had children there so the children also maybe they didn't have uh documentation
29:57 because their parents the came there illegally and because of that they well they grew up in the united states and
30:06 some of them they still don't have documentations but the united states is their home they are american and they don't have
30:13 the documentation it's a it's not a good situation again it's become very political and they it
30:22 i don't think there is any clear resolution at this point obviously in my personal opinion these people should definitely stay they should have
30:29 their documentation but some of the students i think at this university that that's kind of what they would fall into they've lived in the u.s
30:36 their whole life but they're not able to receive the same opportunities as some other people because they are undocumented so that's
30:46 what freedom university is um if and if you want to make a donation they do the donations through this other organization um
30:57 called the the praxis project so that is actually the the donation goes to the practice project who supports
31:04 freedom university and just so you know the praxis project um they they are a movement they do a lot of different initiatives
31:13 helping out with uh equality for all racial equality um education like freedom university and that is the organization that
31:24 accepts the donations on behalf of freedom university and supports freedom university i don't know if freedom university could
31:32 not uh register as a a charitable organization on their own again watch the video it will give you a lot
31:40 more information about it but this is the this is the organization that we that i wanted to highlight
31:49 that i think is doing a great job that's doing a very important work uh and yeah if you guys want to get involved support people's
31:57 uh education you can make a donation uh click on that donate button and even if you even if you can't right now i completely understand that check
32:06 out the website i think it's always good to read this information practice your reading skills go on to the
32:13 praxis project website as well because if anything you're reading about something that's good and something that's positive i
32:22 think there's so much if you're reading like newspaper articles so much of it is just negative it's good
32:29 to actually read something that is inspiring that makes you feel good so even if you can't make a donation that's okay
32:36 i'd still encourage you go on those websites read a little bit more about it practice your language skills and it's just i think it just makes people feel
32:43 better at least that's that's my opinion so i i hope that you guys learn some new words um again i will put these words down below in the
32:55 description these are all the words that we talked about from the article that i think will help you understand
33:03 a little bit more about the the topic of immigration which is an important topic which i think all of us can relate to
33:10 because i think countries from all over the world um the the world is becoming a lot more connected
33:16 um i like i told you i've lived in several different countries uh and and in my opinion i think that's a good thing
33:24 i i think it's great that we're all being connected that we can communicate with each other um it's it's something that's positive
33:33 i hope this was useful again i apologize i know that uh the the streaming i don't know if it cut in and out a little bit
33:42 uh because of because of my shoddy internet uh but i i hope you learned uh some new words
33:49 and uh thank you guys again for for joining me sorry it wasn't as much of a back and forth with you guys who are
33:57 in the chat uh because of the type of lesson it is there's so many different windows that i'm having to jump back and forth between
34:05 the the articles the vocabulary i'm trying to look in the chat uh to see what's going on but thank you guys
34:12 uh so much mohammed zanat uh adir um brayan know about uh just give some quick shout outs at the end
34:24 saad uh angela canule uh thank you guys um thank you for joining the the uh new member uh
34:35 ka kathu kathushillo sorry if i mispronounce names um always good to see members and patrons takayo
34:43 catrudus maggie um thank you guys so much for being here i hope that you enjoy the rest of your weekend and again next week
34:50 what i want to do this month we're going to highlight uh some different charities uh make a donation
34:58 i'm going to do the lesson as a bit of a fundraiser and just try to have it be a little more positive
35:05 and and try to end the year on a little more of a positive note because 2020 has well it's it's kind of just sucked all right so we're gonna try to focus on
35:17 something a little more positive and highlight some of these charities uh olga peter uh naoko mario great to see you uh mary
35:28 uh roshan hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and