The United States of America was declared as a new country hundreds of years ago when the U.S. won independence from Britain. Immigration and immigrants built America. The African Americans improved the economic growth agriculturally, Asian Americans built the railroads, the Latinx community taught irrigation techniques to allow farmers improve the agriculture, and Caucasians helped improve the economy with trades. Immigrants were taking the jobs unwanted by Americans, but then they were accused of stealing the jobs of Americans. Not only that, but many citizens believe immigrants are criminals and are forced into the U.S. by their government in order to cause terrible crimes. Citizens discriminated against Africans, Asians, Latinos, etc.,
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The color of their skin indicates whether they carry diseases or if they are innocent immigrants entering the United States. In 2002, two professors from the University of Michigan, Markel Howard and Alexandra Minna Stern stated in their research that there is persistence in associating immigrants with infectious disease. In Howard and Stern’s research they found that skin color determines if the immigrant will bring into the United States infectious diseases. “During a period in which evolutionary doctrines upheld a belief in the racial degeneracy of most nonwhite groups, it was relatively easy to attribute the weary condition of some immigrants—whether impoverished, malnourished, or suffering from a particular ailment—to their biological inferiority.” In the past, people of color entered the country malnourished and suffering from an illness. This is a result due to the lack of health care, the lack of resources in the country they originated from. And so, the belief that people of color who are immigrating to the United States from a country filled with infectious diseases, is ingrained into the American minds and the government. People of color are prevented to enter the U.S. due to a stigma of being associated with infectious
The color of their skin indicates whether they carry diseases or if they are innocent immigrants entering the United States. In 2002, two professors from the University of Michigan, Markel Howard and Alexandra Minna Stern stated in their research that there is persistence in associating immigrants with infectious disease. In Howard and Stern’s research they found that skin color determines if the immigrant will bring into the United States infectious diseases. “During a period in which evolutionary doctrines upheld a belief in the racial degeneracy of most nonwhite groups, it was relatively easy to attribute the weary condition of some immigrants—whether impoverished, malnourished, or suffering from a particular ailment—to their biological inferiority.” In the past, people of color entered the country malnourished and suffering from an illness. This is a result due to the lack of health care, the lack of resources in the country they originated from. And so, the belief that people of color who are immigrating to the United States from a country filled with infectious diseases, is ingrained into the American minds and the government. People of color are prevented to enter the U.S. due to a stigma of being associated with infectious