Syrian Refugees Rhetorical Analysis

Refugee: Talibans…they are like wild animal. First they killed my father. My family had deeply suffered from the news especially my mother. After few months my mother able to found an old fishing boat that will ship us into another country. Then my mother die to sacrifice her life for us. This world is scary in so many ways especially humans.

Immigration seems to be a hot topic in the new right now. There seems to be this uneasiness in the public because the idea of people different than ourselves is startling to us, even though most of the public themselves are decedents from immigrants. News media and political representatives have made the choice to categorize these moving groups with metaphors surrounding water. Many believe that is it just the conservative side of politics that use these metaphors, but David Horsey (a political cartoonist) and Barack Obama have both used water to describe immigrants. This issue needs to be addressed because immigration is not going to stop anytime soon. I want to argue that the flood and wave metaphors are not productive because they (i) dehumanize

Every year, millions of immigrants come to the United States in hopes to find resources, economic opportunities and freedom. According to the Migration policy Institute, in the year of 2013, Texas and California were the top two states in the United States for number of immigrants. California being 10.3 million and Texas being 4.4 million. However, in society today, some American politicians and conservatives have found this to be a problem. Others believe it is beneficial to the United States. Two authors take two different standpoints on their views of immigration. Samuel P. Huntington, a major scholarly voice on political issues, wrote in his publication (“The Special Case of Mexican Immigration”) that he believes the immigration of Mexicans,

On September of 2015, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi went viral. “The toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach had reverberated across the globe” (Parkinson & George-Cosh, 2015). Aylan’s family had “fled the brutal civil war in their native Syria and only attempted the boat crossing after Canada denied their application of admission as refugees. The image led to an astonishing outpouring of support for Syrian refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016).

In both of these articles they talk about refugees. Some families had adjusted a new life after all the bad things that happened to them. When the refugees were being sent away, they felt queasy about where they were going. All the refugees thought they were going to get a document and be U.S. citizens. But they weren't, they were being sent to internment camps. And had to live there.

Immigration has been one of the largest topics of political conversations recently due to the extreme stances taken towards it with the current presidency. President Trump’s entire campaign was based on promises to take harsh measures against illegal immigration, blaming immigrants for many of the nation’s problems. His rhetoric caused many individuals to take action against those who heavily believe in mass deportation. During his presidency, he unfortunately was able to pass policies that allow the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be extremely strict and harsh on arresting anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant. These policies further incite the argument concerning the power balance between federal and state governments, otherwise

Immigration has been a hot button topic in the United States since as early as the 1800s. With the arrival of Europeans from nations such as Ireland or Poland, so also came many prejudices against these people. In the United States today a similar story unfolds down along the Southern border. People of Latino decent continue to cross the border into the US seeking a better life and the American dream. However not all of the individuals are joining the ranks of US citizens by legal means causing many social strains on the public image of immigration. Because of those that enter illegally, policymakers demonize all immigrants and enforce strict immigration and deportation laws. They cite immigration as the reason for crime rates and the dissolution of American values. This harsh rhetoric casts a negative image on all immigrants and is a bigger problem than immigration is.

This rhetorical analysis will analyze “Illegal immigration, border enforcement, and relative wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the US-Mexico border,” by Hanson Gordon H and Antonio Spilimbergo, published in 1999 in the American Economic Association, implies that the south-west border has the highest number of illegal immigrants flowing in. In comparison, Ramanujan Nadadur article, “Illegal Immigration: A Positive Economic Contribution to the United States,” published in 2009 in the Ethnic and Migration Studies, outlines the positive impacts that illegal immigration brings to the U.S economy. The article by Hanson Gordon H and Antonio Spilimbergo targets a general audience since the level that it is written is easily understood. The second

So much damage was done and so many innocent lives were lost for no reason. If people are ignoring this situation, it’s obvious that they aren’t concerned with it and that is unacceptable. If people don’t understand how wrong it is then they will repeat the mistake and that is very dangerous and bad. So many more innocent lives can be lost and that can’t happen. We are smarter than to let the past repeat itself. No matter what happens killing innocent people will always be wrong. Nobody deserves to die for being different. We are all humans. We don’t get to say that one is better than the other, because at the end of the day we’re all going to end up underground in a coffin and none of this is going to matter. We are all equals and it’s about time that everybody understood this. We are in the 21th Century. We shouldn’t be making stupid mistakes over and over

My public argument was directed to the Wildcats Magazine. The audience of public argument needed to be informed of the issue prior to be convinced to my opinion. Similarly, most of my presentation’s audiences were not aware of the European refugees crisis. The public argument has to provide a sufficient background in order to put the audience in the picture. However, my presentation has to include a detailed explanation about the reason of having the Middle Eastern refugees’ crisis. In addition, the rhetorical strategies used in both of my public argument and presentation were mostly the same. The rhetorical strategies are sympathy, logical future facts, and logical statistics.

In one corner, you have the conservative view that NO refugees should be let into Western countries — you know, like the view of Donald Trump or any one of the Republican governors in the U.S. who have said they don’t want refugees in their states. They cite security concerns as their primary reason, although xenophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment tends to run through the rhetoric.

I know many people are victim of war, especially my neighbors and some of my friends who were living in Sinjar city. I am very frustrating and sorry about those people because I knew them previously and before terrorist attack. Some of those people died during war, and some of them still in terrorist jails.

Dr. Peter provides us a remembered speech at Stelly’s on last Monday, November 9th, 2015. He leans on the high table and begin his lecture at leisure, he is 92 years old, as a survivor of the strong will of Arbeit Konzentrationslager during World War II. Nowadays, he has overcome with all of those terrify memories happened on him back to 80 years ago. He lards his lecture with many jokes, indeed, jokes help images and atmosphere of his lecture turn to colorful and less depress, not only black and write, but also I can see through his words to get into touch with those people who are existed in this world a long time before us, and they were erased inhumanly. There was a sigh at the entrance of the camp writes “Arbeit machts frei” (Work makes one

Thousands of innocent people are slaughtered in cold blood in besieged Aleppo before the cameras of all nations around the world. Women are raped, children are burned alive, and men are murdered in streets. A mass genocide is taking place while the entire world is crippled, and silently watching. It is a live holocaust broadcasted 24/7 to a soulless

The refugee exhibit in Pioneer Square was set up into different sections where each section told a story of the struggles, and reasons behind a refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, perspective of why they need to leave their home countries. In the beginning you are given a card, which holds an identity of an asylum seeker, migrant, international displaced people, refugee, and you are to become that person. We were then told to select five items that we thought were beneficial for our journey. In my experience I was an asylum seeker from Afghan. The five things I selected were a cell phone to contact family when I crossed the border and tell them I’m fine. The next item was money for expenses, an animal, passport to have identification, and lastly water so I stayed hydrated. I thought it was easy enough until the tour guide explained the circumstances. When refugees start their journee to leave their homeland they don’t think about valuables, but the necessities of what they will need for the long journey before them. I learned that each trip you take you lose a valuable, you have to give up (exchange) something in order to attain something new such as, a boat ride, food, a charger to charge your phone, which as I learned was what most refugee desired to keep communications between family. I learned people in different countries they reached would charge them to charge their phone, or had to receive something in return. I learned that it caused conflict and it was later