Analysis Of Fear Of Immigrants By Jeremy A. Smith

In Jeremy A. Smith essay, “Fear of Immigrants”, he vaguely states people of the United States fear migrators who come seeking a better life. In the article he makes various points across why he thinks they are good or bad. Ranging between how they boost the economy, all the way to how they bring diseases into this country. Jeremy A. Smith even has psychologist resources from Universities to back himself (Smith750-757). But his real opinion is yet to be seen, as by his arguments seen for and against immigrants. In addition to all this, Smith is ineffective in communicating his argument because his argument is not well centered, he misused the rhetorical concept logos, and his evidence do not back up his statements.
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Since Smith argument is that the people from the United States fear the immigrant he should not have made the reader feel bad for an immigrant. Instead Smith should have told a story in which an American felt fear towards an immigrant, so it can connect to his argument. Towards the end, Smith quoted Wenger the teacher of Rodrigo Guzman. “’When shaping immigration policy, we should be holding in the front of our minds that we’re talking about real families, real kids, who have hopes…’” (qtd. Wenger 757). Wenger was the one who said that the immigration policy should remember that immigrants are humans with hopes. Smith used Wegner words for a reason, he tried to use the rhetorical concept logos. The words of Wenger, make the reader think of their feeling towards immigrants. The words of Wenger did not help Smith article because her words were strong and well said, which makes Smith article ineffective. Smith did not use the rhetorical concept logos to his advantage making his article …show more content…
Through out Smith article he mostly quotes psychologist, and the psychologist talked about research they have made. For instance, Smith quote Princeton psychologist Susan Fiske, “’In our research, we talk about warmth and competence dimensions’” (755). Its good that Smith evidence is from a research, but Smith should have explained the research and give the reader a background of the research that Princeton psychologist Susan Fiske made. Smith should have given a background because interpreting data can be hard since the researcher can manipulate the results. Through the article Smith doesn’t give any explanation of any research, or any statistical facts that back up his argument. Another example is shown when Smith doesn’t quote anyone but he states that “many studies have found that the brain stops going into high alert when exposed to out-group faces if steps are taken to make the faces familiar” (755). Smith used the results about “many studies”, to prove a point. In order for this statement to be be strong and make an impact towards the reader Smith should have explain at least where the “many studies” came from, or who did those “many studies”. Therefore, the fact that Smith did have strong evidence to back him up his argument made his article