Maria Garcia in her essay about immigrants and the policies towards them shows how a country is only willing to let people in if it proves beneficial for it. The United States started letting elite members from Cuba when they can use that immigration wave as marketing against communist ideologies. They let a select group of Cubans come into the U.S. as a way to tell the world that communist does not work and democracy is favorable and these people are proof of that. The United States also previously let in immigrants from Europe during World War 2 also to convey this message that the States is a land of equality and everyone gets treated fairly here.
When it does not prove useful to the United States, they manipulate the narrative and give people a negative stigma in order to reduce it from happening, they even go to greater lengths than this. The media starts depicting certain immigrants as "troublemakers" to increase the public's negative feelings towards them. They also say that immigrants are here to take away the opportunities of the people who were already here. Refugees that come south of the border are the ones that usually portrayed this way.
The fact of the matter is that there is so much opportunity in this country, yet, the greediness of a powerful few does not allow it that everyone can strive and prosper here. There is so much hate in this country when in reality there is no need for it. It is possible to live in a society in which everyone is treated fairly but the process to achieve that can be problematic for some. For that reason is why we have so much conflict today.
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