I would not share this website with students as a reliable website for a number of reasons. To begin, the website is biased because it is a “membership organization of concerned citizens. Not every citizen is concerned with immigration so therefore it’s not everyone’s opinion. While the website does seem to well written and virtually free of any spelling or grammar mistakes, there doesn’t seem to be much research to back up the facts. The most recent date I could find on the website was from 2005. This website seems to think immigration is despicable, and I don’t necessarily agree with it.
I would not use this resource in my classroom as a credible website. The first indication that this website is not credible is that it’s a blog. A lot of the imformation seems to be opinion-based. The blog also has a disclaimer where the author states that he is “obsessed” with the issue of immigration. The website clearly seems biased. I wouldn’t want to use a website with a one-sided argument in my classroom because I wouldn’t want my students to only see one side of the issue.
I would definitely use this website in my classroom if we were discussing immigration. The website shows the history of immigration. However, there is a short disclaimer at the end stating, “The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. government.” The author of the article is a professor at New York University. The article was written in 2008, which is adequate when discussing the history or immigration. This article is also reliable because it is from a government agency.
This is the website that I would most likely use in my classroom when discussing immigration. The website seems to be unbiased. It states the laws and regulations but in a sensitive and non-prejudice way. It’s also a government site, which leads me to believe that it may be fairly accurate information. The group consists of 18,000 government officials with 250 offices around the world. Unlike the first site, this site seems to be fair and sensitive to immigrant’s rights.
This website would be the last resource I would use when teaching a class about immigration. It seems to be mocking the issue of immigration and does not seem to be credible at all. The title is, “Immigration Officials Beef Up U.S.-Mexican Border with Pure Beef.” After reading the title alone you can gather that this site is not credible. The picture in the article is of a man standing on a pile of beef. The article talks about covering the border with “1,200 miles of pure beef”. I would never use this in a classroom because it’s absolutely absurd.
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