Julie Dowling and Josue David

In their respective roles as the book’s author and contributor, Julie Dowling and José David illustrate the ongoing public debate about immigration and how it affects American society. The results indicate a strong concern for the integrity of the nation. He goes on to describe how challenging it is to become a citizen of the US, particularly if you belong to a minority ethnic or racial group. A large-scale demonstration against US government policy against illegal immigration, terrorism, and border protection was planned by the Latino ethnic community and other minority groups in March of 2006. A passage that surprises, is when the Protesters especially of the Latino race, came out in large numbers to express their grievances along tribal basis. If they had wanted a multicultural existence and recognition in the US, then they ought to have used a universal language of which every race or ethnic group would understand. This portrayed LGM, not as a performance of equality among all the inhabitants of America. These protestors also embraced stereotyping of immigrants along racial basis to oppose alienation. When the government tried to create the border because of the risks posed by the immigrants either linguistically or financially, the minorities the minority groups retaliated and challenged their existence as citizens.

They carried out their protests in their ancestral languages by shouting, singing and waving posters. This showed how ironical it was to advocate for equal treatment and acceptance in America while insisting on accepting to abandon ethnicity and tribalism. The protesters who picketed on the green space also revealed racism as they did communicate only using Spanish. It was also perplexing to see them get recognized as US citizens through racism and ethnic practice instead of solving the initial differences between immigration and being assimilated as US citizens.

Work cited:

Julie, Jonathan Xavier. Governing Immigration through a Crime. Stanford. Stanford University Press 262-277, 2013.