Reflection 6

Reflection 6
The National Network for Immigration and Refugees Right (2013) indicates that the major issues with the immigration policies currently include increased levels of repression. Following the increased terrorist attacks with the September 11th being a major one, the detention policies and deportation policies have been utilized to focus on “removing all the removable aliens.” It has, therefore, been difficult to effectively control the immigration level in the U.S due to the increased linkage of immigration to politics. Another major issue involves an escalation of the militarization of the immigration control hence, making it hard to implement the policies effectively. With the government putting its principal focus on the militarization of the border communities, implementing such policies to curb illegal immigration has been hard to attain. Furthermore, failure to focus on the class power by the races affected by immigration has also made it hard to implement the immigration policies (Hooks, 2014). It has, therefore, led to the continuous betrayal of the affected races; thus, making it hard to implement the immigration policies effectively.
Cultural racism is a primarily defined as an institutionalized form of racism where messages, values, as well as standards promote a false idea that makes the white race to feel superior to other races (Scott, 2012). With other policies like the cooperation between police and ICE, racial profiling is encouraged leading to increased abuse against the immigrant communities who are mainly the blacks.

The white communities that are not affected, therefore, end up feeling more superior than those who are affected, hence leading to cultural racism. Desegregation policy that focuses on weakening the collective radicalization of the black community also makes them feel inferior prompting the white community to feel more superior than them (Hooks, 2014). Such policies, therefore, reinforce cultural racism.
References
Hooks, B. (2014). Class and race: The new black elite. In Kimmell, M. S. & Ferber, A. L (Eds.), Privilege: A reader (3rd ed.) (pp. 143-152). Cambridge, MA: Westview Press.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (2013). Injustice for all: The rise of the U.S. immigration policing regime. In Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Castañeda, R., Hackman, H. W., Peters, M. L., & Zúñiga, X. (eds.) Readings for diversity and social justice: An anthology on racism, antisemitism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism (3rd ed.) (pp. 102-108). New York: Routledge.
Scott, M. (2012). Think: Race and ethnicity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.