The Fantasy of Making America Great Again Through Immigration Reform.
Making America great again is a fantasy for many. Through promises of doing such, Donald Trump won the election and reigned into presidency. One way Trump promises “we the people,” of making our nation great again, is by his immigration reform plan.
After reading online at donaldjtrump.com and analyzing his plan on fixing the immigration problem our country faces, I’ve come to the realization that this article beautifully portrays and reflects chapter five in our book covering fantasy-theme criticism.
“Fantasizing or dramatizing occurs when individuals find some aspect of a message that catches/focuses their attention until they imaginatively participate in the images and actions stimulated by the message.” Within this article the aspect that catches the audience’s attention is making America great again and creating more jobs for true citizens. The article also fantasizes that the three core principles of real immigration reform are:
1) A nation without borders is not a nation
2) A nation without laws is not a nation
3) A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
These three fantasized principles are viewed dramatically different amongst our nation’s people. For the a great amount of the citizens who identify with conservative views, these three principals get them fired up and feel passion towards Trumps beliefs in what will benefit our country and play as a part of motivation in what they believe to be positive change. On the other hand, the other liberal half of the country fearfully views these three core principals as hostile approaches that lead to racism, anti-Semitism and hate. Even to the extent where they refer to it as history repeating itself as it was in Nazi Germany.
Just like the fantasy-theme criticism theory states, the article then prior to catching the audience attention and gaining support from the conservatives, discusses actions that need to take place in order to receive the fantasied message. The article breaks it down into three main acts.
The first act is to make Mexico pay for the wall. This step helps shield the fear of Trumps followers in having to lose money in his plans by forcing “who’s really responsible” to pay up. At the meantime liberals feel it will help loose positive relations with Mexico.
The following act is to defend the laws and constitution of the United States Within this action, the article entails for movements such as; tripling the number of ICE officers, nationwide e-verify, mandatory return of all criminal aliens, establishing detention-not catch-and-release, defunding of sanctuary cities, enhancing penalties for overstaying a visa, cooperating with local gang task forces, and ending birthright citizenship. These steps all help the conservatives see the map to greatness and defending our countries laws and constitution, while scaring the liberals of discriminatory threats.
The Trump administrations final act is focused around putting American workers first. In perusing such the Trump administration suggest actions of; increasing prevailing wage for H-1Bs, requirement of hiring American workers first, end welfare abuse, creating jobs programs for inner city youth, creating refugee programs for American children, and Immigration moderation. For the conservatives that view only themselves as true citizens, this is positive. On the other hand for the liberals who believe anyone should have the right of citizenship this is seen to be movements of negligence.
Our country is a lot like a newly expired chicken breast, while propaganda like above is a lot like seasoning. Half would think it’s best to solve the problem with “seasoning” (these immigration reform actions). While the other half think view the “seasoning” as a form of brainwashing and masking of the problem that can lead our country into becoming ill. Either way our country is not looking to tasty.
