Donald Trump's Immigration Ban
One of the major events on the news right now is Donald Trump's decision to restrict immigration from seven Muslim countries . I also know that there have been lots of debate in the world about allowing refugees from the Middle East to move through Europe. Letting immigrants and refugees in feels like the right thing to do, but many countries think it's a bad idea simply because refugees are so needy that accepting them into your country can be really expensive . Also, there have been terrorist attacks in lots of places over the last year. One I can remember happened in Paris . That's super interesting to me largely because in Social Studies, we've spent the better part of the last two weeks talking about all of the different ways that immigration has helped society. Ideas travel around the world as a result of immigration -- so shutting down immigration also means shutting down the movement of ideas. It's also interesting to me because w...