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Donald Trump's Migration To The United States

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Recently in the news, President Donald Trump’s immigration ban has been one of the most criticized things. Trump’s executive action temporarily bans entry to the United States from seven nations and temporarily suspends the Department of Homeland Security’s refugee program. Trump’s order suspended visa entries into America for ninety days for individuals from Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Iran (Marquis, 2017). His list can grow since he instructed his secretary of state and DHS secretary to seek out additional information from other foreign governments. If their information does not meet the new guidelines issued by the DHS and the director of national intelligence, those other countries can be added to the list. The order, …show more content…

Five points can be made by Faulks, to support this argument but only highlighted are the ones that explain President Trump’s immigration order. In the state-centric society, the state possesses a number of resources of power, particularly those relating to its surveillance capabilities over its citizens, which gives it the capacity to penetrate and influence civil society. The state cannot be understood in isolation, but exists within a states system (Faulks, 2000). In the context of mutual suspicion between states, the importance of the state’s military capacity is crucial. The state is not just there as a mediator between the interests of the population, or as an economic manager, but as a symbol and defender of the ‘imagined community’ that forms the dominant cultural identity of any particular state-civil society relationship (Faulks, 2000). This close relationship between the state and nationalism gives the state an invaluable communicative power to unify disparate elements of civil society, particularly in times of war or during other crises that might face the state (Faulks, 2000). These points all help to further explain President Trump’s immigration order better by using the lenses of someone with a state-centric …show more content…

What class are immigrants mostly a part of? The working class. Who is President Trump’s immigration order affecting? Immigrants who make up the working class. President Trump is a part of the elite ruling class and his immigration order is protecting his interests. Even though it may look like he is trying to protect everyone in the United States, that is not the case. He is looking out for himself and every other person that makes up the elite ruling class. They want to make sure their elite ruling class stays in power and the predominately working class stays out of

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