Is Fear Relevant In Today's Society?

In Our Fear of Immigrants, Smith begins with the story of a fourth grade class in Berkeley, California that is devastated by the loss of their friend, Rodrigo Guzman, whom authorities sent back to Mexico because of an expired visitor’s visa. With the help of their parents, these fourth graders in Berkeley, California sent their friend a comforting video and wrote a letter to their Congressmen in protest against the deportation of Rodrigo. Smith then tells of the protestors in Murrieta, California who blocked buses transporting undocumented immigrants to a holding facility (751).

“Since the presidential election, there has been a sharp downturn in reports of sexual assault and domestic violence among Latinos throughout the country, and many experts attribute the decline to fears of deportation.” (Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation.) With constant talk of things like deportation and building a wall on the Mexican-American border, it’s no surprise that immigrants and Latinos have stopped reporting incidents of rape and abuse. This article shows that immigrants no longer feel safe or protected in America. “‘I would call the police and use another name or make a neighbor call,’ said April, who came across the border from Mexico when she was about 8 and lives in Orange County. ‘When he came after me, he’d say that I would get sent back to Mexico and never see my kids again. I believed him for a long time.’” (Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation.) Women who have risked everything to come to America and begin a new life are being manipulated and threatened to the point where they are beyond terrified to report any form of assault or domestic abuse that they have experienced in fear of being deported away from their children and family. This is becoming the sad reality of life as an immigrant in the United

People often fear what they don 't understand. Evolutionary psychology can be traced back millions of years, when fear helped keep man from peril. Avoiding the unknown created a sense of security. Consequently, since the beginning of mankind, our instincts have developed to be perilous of the familiar. Fear of the unknown causes people to become narrow-minded and ignorant of the unfamiliar, and how people behave when they believe something will happen even though there is no basis for their assumptions. This ideology directly correlates to Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the story, the townspeople are challenged by fear, which causes them to go against each other. The fear of change within the town associates with racism and causes the white majority to victimize a discerned black minority. The whites have developed such a strong stereotype amongst the blacks that they have become unmindful of what’s right. Boo Radley is one of the best examples of someone who is unfairly targeted because of Maycomb’s fear of the unknown. His problems with the law result in isolation within the Radley house, and because he refuses to leave his house, the townspeople are terrified and make accusations. During Tom Robinson’s trial, Atticus used logic, reason and intelligence, to prove Tom’s

In “Our fear of Immigrants” by Jeremy Adam smith, the author recalls a story about a young elementary student that got deported during Christmas break. Immigration has always been a controversial topic in this country. Many have different views on why deportation is beneficial and why it is not. In this instance Rodrigo Guzman’s classmates were saddened and confused about why their classmate and dear friend had gotten sent to another country for no apparent reason. It was something these students didn’t understand since it was a subject they knew nothing about, however, the students knew it was not fair to their friend. Smith wanted to dig deeper on what emotions immigrants bring up in people and why was it

In the essay “Our Fear of Immigrants,” Jeremy Adam Smith writes about why it is we fear immigrants. Smith divides his essay with numerous examples and comparisons, through biological, sociological and psychological explanations. As unorthodox as it sounds, our hesitation towards outsiders can be explained in various ways we never believed imaginable; in Smith’s investigation, he unveils the bewildering reality about the contrasts between ourselves, as adults, and children when it comes to immigration. He begins with a distressful story of a classroom of 4th graders from Berkeley, California, who missed their classmate named Rodrigo when he didn’t return from Christmas break, due to his parents’ expired visa. Rodrigo’s classmates thought that it was so unfair, that they complained to their congressmen. Smith then contrasts this response of empathetic children to unsympathetic adults from Berkeley, California, who protested against immigrants who seek shelter in the U.S for the families. Smith pondered the questions: “Why do immigrants provoke such strong feelings of both empathy and revulsion, a polarization that pits fourth graders in Berkeley against the citizens of Murrieta?” and “What characteristics and qualities do Rodrigo’s classmates possess

Writer Jeremy Adam Smith, starts his argument by telling a story about a little boy named Rodrigo Guzman. Rodrigo’s teacher noticed that he has been absent for a few days and found out later, that him and his family have been deported back to Mexico. Rodrigo’s teacher had told the fourth-grade class what happened to Rodrigo and his family. The kids in his class were shocked to hear that their friend had been deported and wanted to do something about it. In Jeremy Adam Smith “Our Fear of Immigrants”, many Americans fear immigrants based on what they learn from their in-groups. He believes that some people fear immigrants, find them a threat and how people try to tame xenophobe.

Daily, law enforcement will stop a Hispanic/Latino for doing something “suspicious” when it is consider the norm for another ethnicity. For example, in Arizona, Hispanics/ Latinos were targets of racial profiling; they were being stopped by law enforcement to verify their legal status. In this it is necessary to point out that not a single white person lives under the constant fear of being a suspect for being at the wrong place at the wrong time because minorities such as Hispanics/ Latinos or Blacks will consider accountable of it according to Latino Policy and Issues Brief by Abel Valenzuela, Hispanic score of 0.77 under of the sub-index of criminal justice. This sub-index is composed of measuring “equality before the law and arrest” (Valenzuela). This demonstrates the inequality among the system that is meant to protect

Over the last quarter of a decade, illegal immigration and enforcement have dominated mainstream policy making (Meisnner, Kerwin, Chishti & Bergeron, 2013). There has been a lot of public debate too, on whether or not the successive governments of the US have been able to effectively address illegal immigration and its enforcement thereof. However, as Meisnner et al. (2013) state, in the wake of the terror attacks of 2001, a paradigm shift appears to have been established, with the enforcement of illegal immigration taking a de facto stance. As such, as Dreby (2012) intimates, the number of immigrants who have been deported or removed from the US since 2001 has risen from 190, 000 to close to 400, 000. Considering the fact that there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in America, deportation on such a large scale without a doubt will result in a continuous chain reaction. One such consequence, as The New York University School of Law (2012) states, is that families are inherently broken apart by the removal of a family member. Additionally, there are other psychological and psychosocial impacts on families that are far-reaching. Because of these and many other compelling factors, this paper argues that the US should work to prevent deportations, rather than enforce them.

In Danielle Allen and Richard Ashby Wilson’s Washington Post article “Mass deportation isn’t just impractical. It’s very, very dangerous” (2016) the authors speak on the guaranteed dangers of going through with Donald Trump’s mass deportation promises. Allen and Wilson assert that Trump’s proposal to deport up to 11 million undocumented immigrants within a matter of months is not only preposterous, but incredibly dangerous. Their joint credibility backs the article, as it is stated that, “Allen is a political theorist at Harvard and a contributing columnist for The Post. Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut School of Law.” They call to mind the mass deportation that led to ethnic cleansing of Bosnians in Yugoslavia as a way to hold a mirror to the similar situations today regarding deportation of Mexicans and of refugees.

“The illegal immigration issue is one of the most complex and emotionally charged social justice issues facing the United States.” The United States Immigration and Naturalization is also commonly known as INS. INS has asked for a criminologist to perform a study on illegal immigrants. It is crucial to provide relevant information as to the manner in which the research should be conducted to develop a valid study in the United States related to immigrants’ fear of crime and lack of confidence in their local police department. The study will distinguish a valid sample size and offer an opinion as to the particulars of the potential study outcomes.

People often fear what they don 't understand. Evolutionary psychology can be traced back millions of years, when fear was helped keep man form peril. An aversion to the unknown was usually safer. Therefore, evolution culled for human traits that feared and avoided the unknown. Fear of the unknown causes people to become narrow-minded and ignorant of the unfamiliar, and how people behave when they believe something will happen even though there is no basis for their assumptions. This ideology directly correlates to Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the story, the townspeople attempt to overcome their various fears by turning against each other. In Maycomb, fear of change leads to racism and causes the townspeople to persecute a perceived black inferiority. The whites believe they know the outcome and become oblivious to the truth. A person 's trepidation of change lies in their willingness to take action. Boo Radley is one of the best examples of someone who is unfairly targeted because of Maycomb’s fear of the unknown. His problems with the law result in self-imposed exile within the Radley house, and because he refuses to leave his house, the townspeople are terrified and make accusations. During Tom Robinson’s trial, Atticus used logic, reason and intelligence, to prove Tom’s innocence, however, the jury let their fear, prejudice, and racism affect their decision. In addition, Dolphus Raymond is another character who

The author focused on the hatred that has spread in America these past years and why white supremacists had enough of losing the basic principle of white supremacy. The writer gathered information by analyzing the event that took place in Charlottesville and the president’s speech Tuesday night. The audience for this article was for the people who were wondering where this argument stands in our country. This article and my article showed hatred because they both talk about how these white supremacists aren’t going to stop all their discrimination towards colored people, but this article mainly focuses on the protest and the comments made. The topic of hatred is discussed in the article because white nationalists were protesting

Donald Trump, our 45th President of the United States tweeted, on February 23, 2017, a hasty generalization of peoples from Mexico, El Salvador and other parts of Central and South America. This tweet really hit home for me, considering the fact that I am El Salvadorian, and through his eyes everyone one of us (Hispanics;Latinos) is a “killer and thief”. He could argue that he was only speaking down on criminals from these countries but the wording of his tweet to his 48.2 million followers made quite the impact on me. These are my people being put under two categories that doesn't justify stereotyping 6.3 million foreigners. People may look at me differently or look down on me because of the negative misconceptions that stereotyping creates, which comes to show how one voice has the power to change how an entire country views a region of the world.

Hispanic Americans suffered similar fate as African- Americans in racial profiling. The media portrayed them as part of gangs and selling drugs. This group is more likely to have a strong group identity and view the police officers as “gringos” or foreigners (Aguiree , 2004). They already look at the police officers with negativity due to increased activities of deporting illegal occupiers (Davis & Hendricks, 2007). The police officers may be influenced to believe that this group is at higher risk of breaking laws and do not understand Hispanic Americans’ culture.

Many immigrants come to the United States in search of the opportunity to have a better life. They have the willingness to work, seek out educational opportunities and to be productive members and contributors to society. Rarely do you find those instances where immigrants come here to take, destroy all that our nation has built and established. When you hear the current administration in the media use fear, as part of cultural destructiveness to destroy how our society view other cultures and diminish the worth of individuals within their own Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, Thomas, (pg. 64, 2012). By doing that the narrative around immigrants’ changes, people start to believe that immigrants are here committing crimes and a higher rate in comparison to Americans that are born here; For instance, during one of Donald’s Trump 2016 campaign speeches he said “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re