Week 7 Jiaming Mai_ A02

As a Managerial Economics student, reading the article “The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: implications for justice ” was a very interesting experience. If we characterize each country into a person with specific personalities, the U.S should be a woman with a double face.  It is quite sarcastic that the U.S policymakers always promote equality and love while doing something totally opposite and immortals. The criminalization of immigration just one of the great examples because it was an effective way for people in power to maintain a stable control on the class structure. Thanks to my experience of living in California, I had any opportunities to explore the true situation of immigrants as we discussed in class about the inaccurate report of the U.S media. Compare to the locals, immigrants are really a vulnerable group. Perhaps there are a few potential threats existed among the immigrants' community, but many of them were not because they are coming to the U.S for a brilliant future for themselves and their family. Committing a crime and spending the rest of the life in prison isn’t a normal immigrant will consider doing. As a child of immigrants, I think what we did wrong was that we worked way too hard and achieved too fast. Combining with my experience and knowledge that I learned over the years,  the original role of first-generation immigrants that the people in power designed should be doing these dirty physical works that the locals won’t do since many of them speak no or little English and had a poor understanding of the U.S culture and law. However, things started to change with the growing power of Asian Americans and other hard-working minority. Asian occupied all these elite universities and also the silicon valleys. Wealth and resources began to shift, and criminalization of immigration just the beginning to stop this trend.  
 

Question: What are some of the example of social engineering in the U.S? 
 Resources:
Ackerman, Alissa, and Rich Furman. "The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of the Immigration Detention: Implications for Justice." Taylor and Francis Online. N.p., 2013. Web. 14 Feb. 2019.