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9/11 Immigration Analysis

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In the months after the September 11 attacks, the lives of most Americans returned to something like normalcy as original and normal life to maintain their life. But for the Arab, South Asian, North African and those who are based on Muslim fundamentalism, life relatively changed fundamentally and be unchangeable. Thousands of people were detained, most often without charge or access to a lawyer; deportation families apart, and every virtual family member of those communities become a suspect. Even though there is no one of the immigrants who caught up in post 9/11 sweeps and detained that were ever shown to have been involved in terrorist activities, most immigrants are regarded as people who are deserve to suspect. In addition, it is true …show more content…

Many Somalians moved to Minneapolis caused by Civil War for peace to live better. On the other hand, US government is stricter to entry for immigrants from the countries have possibility of terrorism after the 9/11. “A country that immediately comes to mind is Somalia … This focus on Somalia paralleled the restrictions on refugee acceptance and asylum.” (Nguyen, 31) In other words, a number of immigrants entered US were decreasing while Asylum applications continued to face difficulty and Somalians began to be accused, convicted, and ordered …show more content…

There are three to examines: the fact and legitimacy of racial profiling, the redeployment of orientalist tropes, and the relationship between citizenship, nation, and identity. In order to racial profiling, people in US tend to seek male noncitizens between the ages of 18-33 from “Middle Eastern” or “Islamic” countries or countries with some suspected tie to Al-Qaeda are more likely to be terrorists. The majority were identified by the US government as based solely on perceptions of their racial, religious backgrounds, and ethnic identity. Before the terror 9/11 happened, people do not have concern and even stereotypes about Eastern Asian such as Pakistani, Somalian, and Muslim, on the other hand, exaggerated racial profiling since the terror 9/11 as terrorists might be the movement to provoke a rethinking of real citizenship about them in the United States of

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