Blog 6: commenting on others blogs: What In Our Nation?! https://whatinournation.blogspot.com/

I will have to say that I agree with L Anderson’s point about how the Muslim people after September 11 or also known as 9/11 have been discriminated against. His points weren’t completely clear to me when reading until the very end but he had a lot of accurate facts and some history about the event. The reason I’m saying that his points weren’t completely clear is because I feel that when I read this I didn’t completely understand due to the lack of organization. He talked about how the event of 9/11 has set into motion a shift in the United States affecting the policy media and apparent racism against Muslims. I would disagree that it’s racism and more of discriminatory actions. We don’t think less of them as a race, the reason that some Americans reacted the way that they did is because it shot fear into their lives. This was the first real attack on the US and Americans were shocked and they didn’t have anyone to blame, but the people who caused it. So they put blame on the Muslim people as a precaution to keep it from happening again. 9/11 is similar to what happened with the Bombings by Japan who attacked the US. As a reaction to this hateful and dangerous event Americans put Japanese Americans in camps to keep them separated and prevent further attacks because they had no one to blame, but the Japanese Americans. This is the same response that the Americans had against the Muslims because of this horrific event that happened was caused by terrorist who were Muslim. All of these motivations and thoughts about Muslim people were only because of the fear that Americans had started to experience. In conclusion, it was a well thought out write up, but it lacked some organization. The history that he gave was very interesting and informative. I agreed with some of his argument and some not so much.

Blog Stage Five- Immigrants a problem? What is the solution?

So recently in America there has been a huge problem of the federal government being overwhelmed by central American refugees arriving by the thousands. There are two reasons for that. One reason is that president Donald Trump‘s policies sent the signal that this may be the last and best chance to find safety in the United States and second, the existing laws make handling immigrants from America more complicated for administration. On Friday, on the news Trump declared to the refugees that “the system is full. We can’t take you anymore… Our country is full so turn around” This was declared during a public discussion with border security officials in El Centro California. Trump was primarily speaking about the terms of drugs and gangs. He also talked about the limitations of military forces that he has sent to reinforce border enforcement agents in dealing with the immigrants. Continuing this speech President Trump declared, “they rush our border and we have military and they are great military people but they can’t act the way they would under other conditions and there’s not a lot that they can do”. President Trump is trying to find solutions to this growing problem of immigrants who are trying to come to America. He had thought about closing the border of Mexico and America, but that might be detrimental to the United States trading. A lot of American produce is actually from Mexico and this would cause a decline in our trading and access to bulk produce. President Trump has announced that he will postpone the closing of the Mexican border until 2020 that is all we know about this situation so far.