Similarities Between Racial Equality And Immigration Reform

The movements of racial equality and immigration reform are major factors that are affecting the United States society awareness in reality and digitally. These social issues have been going on for decades and it seems that American society is not close to solving the racial inequality and immigration discrimination problems. There are some similar and different concepts when it comes to these two major movements. The first similarity between these two movements is that they both involve racial discrimination. Both of the African Americans and Hispanics are being discriminated against on many social levels. The first social level of discrimination is law enforcement has been known to promote discrimination when treating the African American and …show more content…
However, when it comes to other people and social institutions, people are treated strictly based on their race. For instance, an individual can feel that they should be treated as they are a white individual, but be treated as a Hispanic is they look like that particular race. Which brings about another relevant race theory where people are trying to create a better image for themselves. In fact, from our lecture notes (5/9) , it states “Could also mean someone who seeks to turn existing racial categories to their advantage.” Some people do not want to participate in the racial inequality and immigration discrimination nor do they want to be affected by social problems. They do not want to be another statistic which brings about my difference factor of race inequality and immigration discrimination. A key difference in between these two movements is they are no being reported in statically. In fact, Sociologist Mary Romero states, “Mexican Americans who are treated as outside the law does not appear in official criminal justice statistics” (290. Basically, there is a documentation difference between these two