Week 7 Xiao Zhang Section 03

After read the article "The Criminalization of Immigration and The Privatization of The Immigrant Detention: Implications For Justice" by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman, I came to truly realize the severity of the problem stated in the article. It says that immigrants are usually more often arrested than US citizen. However, there are actually many other reasons for that. The stereotypical view that immigrants are frequently criminals and even morally vicious are really make me annoyed. People are not supposed to make judgement deliberately and hold a seriously fixed mindset. There are many reasons behind the truth.

One of many could be that immigrants are actually biased and discriminated because of their different cultural background or even their accents – when people make judgement about someone and deny someone’s potential, such ignorance and coldness would actually destruct a person. When the American society are so mean and not to share their generosity and love to those people who are new to then environment, how could they feel calm? Kindly treated but not afflicted? It could be part of the reason that those immigrants are experiencing cultural shock but society didn’t help to get them out of panic zone but keep treating them with existing unfair stereotypical or discriminating judgments. When a judgments are made, when people give sentence based on immigrants’ accents, skin colors and vulnerabilities, human potentials would be denied, possibility would be shut down, and courage would be discouraged.

Therefore, I believe that people should stop making judgments, excluding, but try to embrace and help those new comers to get adapt and flourish in this new society – making judgement and promote exclusion would only build up more segregation in the society, which are ultimately detrimental for this entire nation. Only love and understand could help dissolve conflicts. And that’s exactly what those people in the article need.    

Questions: What do you think would be the reason for all of these?

Reference:
Ackerman, A. R., & Furman, R. (2013). The criminalization of immigration and the privatization of the immigration detention: Implications for justice. Contemporary Justice Review,16(2), 251-263.

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