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Immigration Issues Failed To Be Heard

Though each writes on a fairly different stand, Joel Kotkin, Steven A. Camarota, and David Van Biema have concerns on the immigration policy. A senior fellow at Pepperdine University writing for The Wall Street Journal, Kotkin feels immigration as a whole is beneficial to the economy. Camarota, a director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, tells the National Review that specifically Middle-Eastern immigrants are a threat to the U.S. Contrary to Camarota, Van Biema, a writer for Time magazine, boasts that Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants are “unfairly scapegoated.” The issue of national security is of high concern to the reader, but not in ways that these authors may have intended. After reading these articles, rather than coming to conclusions and being swayed one way or another, the reader has a sense of fear on the way the immigration system runs in the United States. By correlating national security with racism, prejudices, and stereotypes, two of these three authors fail to persuade their reader to make any decision on the issue of immigration.
In these essays, there is an extensive amount of references that are both racist and prejudice. When Camarota says that a “large Middle Eastern immigrant population makes it easier for Islamic extremists to operate within the U.S.,” he does not realize that there is a large amount of prejudice in the statement (106). Though the majority of Middle Easterners are in fact Muslims, not all of them are conservative, let alone extremists. So the notion that allowing more Middle Easterners in the U.S. will cause Islamic extremists to immigrate is simply not valid                                 because Islamic extremists are already a small minority of the Muslim population as it is, so the likeliness of this happening is not so great. Furthermore, there is a substantial amount of other religions and creeds that subside in the Middle East that are not even Islamic, such as the fairly large population of...