Understanding Citizenship and Rights, Responsibilities, & Duties

In this excerpt, the narrator, a young Chinese girl, poses as a boy with forged papers, trying to gain entry into the United States. When she realizes the American immigration agents are checking identity papers at the dock, she fights past them and runs for her life.

In this essay, the author describes the Nativism movement, capturing the ways in which it dips and surges based on immigration cycles.

“In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.”