Illegal Immigrants Numbers Rise in Southeast

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/23/us/AP-US-Illegal-Immigration-Shift.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=illegal%20immigration&st=cse

Questions

1. Do you think illegal immigrants have positive or negative effects to America?

2. What’s the solution to illegal immigration in the U.S?

3. Do you think the government should deport the illegal immigran

vocabulary

Demography: Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.

Abundance: An abundance of something is a large quantity of it.

Recession: A recession is a period when the economy of a country is doing badly, for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed.

Eligible: Someone who is eligible to do something is qualified or able to do it, for example because they are old enough.

Coincide: If one event coincides with another, they happen at the same time.

Downturn: If there is a downturn in the economy or in a company or industry, it becomes worse or less successful than it had been.

Hostile: If you are hostile to another person or an idea, you disagree with them or disapprove of them, often showing this in your behavior.