Donald Trump Approach To Illegal Immigration

Hispanics experience a great deal of prejudice and discrimination, the result of a perceived economic and cultural threat that Hispanics pose to non-Hispanics (Trujillo, 2011). Hispanics have a deep belief that all

When Americans think of racism, they usually think of slavery, and that racism is no longer a problem in America. However, this is not the case. Racism is still obvious in America. Racism can be linked directly to stereotypical mindsets of certain groups of people.  Today’s racism is not restricted to whites and blacks, and it has come to define many different groups and races. Pigmentation as well as physical characteristics and features still are influential for classifying people. It is easy to overlook the racism that hides below the surface and is part of American life. Today, an estimate 54 million Latinos live in the U.S. and around 43 million people speak Spanish. Although Latinos are the country’s largest minority, anti-Latino prejudice is still common. Very few Americans recognize, acknowledge, and respect the contributions of one of America’s greatest ethnic groups – Hispanics. Americans are often confused as to who Hispanics really are and what they represent in America. Although the United States is known for having a melting pot of diverse cultures, recent studies have shown the rise of discrimination against Latinos and Hispanics immigrants. A person’s legal status should not be an excuse for mistreatment.

The Hispanic population in the United States has increased throughout the years, but so has the racism. Sad to say that many other races don’t like the fact that more Hispanics are migrating all over the United States. Donald Trump our 45th president of the United States has created more racism with his statements towards Hispanics. In the article from “The Washington Post” by Michelle Ye Hee Lee, mentions that there been many violent rallies with many people getting hurt, as well as many protest around the United States due to these words from president trump “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”.

The United States is notorious for holding prejudice towards immigrants, both legal and illegal. Due to this prejudice towards certain minorities; the effects of this bias provoke the negative treatment, purposely induced negative public image, and overall negative public opinion towards these individuals. In the 1920’s prejudice held form in mannerisms such as poor pay for immigrant workers, denial of jobs, and discrimination. In retaliation to this poor treatment, hispanic immigrants (primarily Mexicans) banded together and founded the Chicano Movement. They hoped to accomplish with this movement, equal working rights, natural rights, equal pay, equal treatment, and a fair education for their community. Through the powerful movement’s efforts

When Donald J. Trump announced in June 2015, American media as a whole wrote him off as a joke. To the United States, he was nothing more than a temporary candidate, the butt of a couple lighthearted democratic jokes about the lack of republican integrity. However, in just a little over two months, Trump has figured out how to use our patriotic predilection for racially-based discrimination to build himself a throne at the top of a behemoth political empire. Donald Trump’s fallacious immigration plan and the responses of Trump’s supporters to this plan work together to unveil a disgusting truth: although the American Dream was constructed by immigrants, it has been deconstructed by the American people to make it nearly

On January 27, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order that suspended entry of all refugees into the United States for one-hundred and twenty days. The order obstructed Syrian refugees for an unspecific time and blocked entry into the United States for ninety days for citizens of seven Muslim countries, such as: Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Yemen. This order also banned green card holder from these seven countries.

Several historical legislations have contributed to the intensification of structural racism in Arizona towards Latino immigrants that has been carried along to modern days. Most of them originated from past disputes over illegal immigration, which for the most part entail perceptions of illegal immigrants as “criminal aliens”.

Every problem has a scapegoat. McCarthyism, blaming innocent individuals without proper reason, became prevalent in the McCarthy Trials from 1950-1956 (Fried 2). Thousands of innocent people were accused and aggressively investigated due to the mass scare of communism (Fried 48). Much like McCarthy’s ideas of suppressing communism, Donald Trump is beginning to do the same thing with Mexicans and Muslims because of the scare of job loss and terrorism. In both instances, minorities “develop impermeable social and cultural barriers with the majority population.” because they are blamed for the problems of the country (Maxwell 3). The United States of America

For instance, Donald Trump portrays Hispanics as “Mexican immigrants,” drug smugglers, criminals and rapist, and has promised to build a wall in order to keep those “dangerous” Hispanics out. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2010, “Hispanics are the largest and most rapidly growing minority group in the US, and are exposed to persistent visible discrimination.” To begin, we always see Hispanics being stereotyped in films, soap operas and in the daily news. At the same time, the news only focuses on the horrific stories that grant them better ratings, while engaging the viewer through fear. The article Media Feed Bias Against Latinos, explains “that negative portrayals of Latinos are common in the news and entertainment media, and that even those people most disposed to hold positive views about Hispanics are adversely influenced when exposed to negative media images.”

Bernie Sanders, who is a Vermont senator and democratic presidential candidate, recently criticized Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a republican presidential candidate. Sanders says that he disagrees with Trump's views on immigration. He also stated that Trump is an embarrassment to our country.

With the greatly disproportionate number of unauthorized Latino immigrants (Appendix 1, Table 2), research shows that many Americans perceived Latinos as “Illegals” and “Criminals” (Perez 2010, Masouka, Junn p.167). This concept of Latinos affects the way the unauthorized immigrant population is treated, not only in the community, but in Congress as well. The portrayal of unauthorized immigrants as criminals allows politicians to prey on the fears of many honest and hardworking Americans.

This week's topic of interpersonal communication is perception. To me perception is how we see things. The problem with that is we all see things from different perspectives. As class we came up with the definition being the active process of creating meaning. Living as an African American, I'm here to tell you your perception is not always reality. I would strongly suggest that everyone hold off on the judgments, stereotypes, and classifications we believe in our daily lives. It takes time to know the actual truth and rushing to conclusions leads to misinterpretations. My article is titled, "Why Has Donald Trump Suddenly Gone All Soft on Immigration?" It involves the current republican Donald Trump who is running for the

During recent years, we have seen the focus on immigration shift from every other racial and ethnic group to Mexican immigrants because of the disproportionate representation of Latinos on the news for instances of drugs and criminality. In 2010, SB 1070 was passed in Arizona and it was essentially an anti-immigrant law, which allowed “police to demand papers proving citizenship or immigration status from anyone they stop and suspect of being in the country unlawfully” (ACLU). It allowed the police and other paramilitary forces to racially profile Latinos without any probable cause and allowed them to harass people and question their legality based on assumptions of race. This legislation allowed “the deportations of almost 400,000 people in

During the 2015-2016 Presidential Campaign, candidate Donald Trump greatly emphasis on illegal immigration. He includes anchor babies as a part of his campaign. Anchor babies are a big contribution to illegal immigration. “An analysis of census data reveals that among births to illegal immigrant mothers in 2009-2010, 91 percent had been in the country for at least two years, and two-thirds had arrived at least five years before giving birth. Illegal immigrants come here to work, not to “drop anchor babies,” an ugly term used to refer to innocent children. The question of whether these children are citizens by birth is a settled matter of law.”

Under the new immigration enforcement policies of the Trump administration millions of people living in the United States illegally could soon be targeted for deportation. Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offense, or even suspected of a crime, will now be an enforcement priority, according to Homeland Security Department memos signed by Secretary John Kelly. Under the Obama administration, immigrants whose only violation was being in the country illegally were generally left alone.