Media Influence On Immigration

Immigration is an enormous and complex phenomenon; no one person or even a government can possibly detain it on their own, even someone who knows many immigrants, or is or has been an immigrant his/herself. All of us have opinions based on some mixture of personal experience, second-hand reports, and information we’ve received from several forms of ‘media’ – including newspapers, TV news, and even entertainment – that might expose us to ideas about and examples of migration. (Jeannet & Blinder, 2014)
Media, as the fourth branch of governtment after the executive, legislative and judical, plays an important role on the way today’s society thinks, behaves and reacts towards immigrants, and also on the way governments/politics take turns either pro or against immigration reforms. The power of media is getting stronger and
It is worth mentioning the example of Royal Oak Middle School: Students shouting “Build the wall” after hearing it over and over again on the media during the Presidential Election.
The power of media can make people changing their opinions for immigrants even though they know that without the immigrants this country would never be great. "Some findings have important implications at the both the level of public policy and the behavior of those who produce media for public consumption," says Esses on one of the articles about media and immigration/immigrants. "Immigrants play a significant role in successful nation building and it is essential that media portrayals of immigrants and refugees not serve the function of transforming uncertainty into crisis."
The United States should remain a salad bowl. It is a beautiful country with so many different cultures. Getting rid of the differences for the sake of full assimilation would destroy the very things that made the United States the amazing country that it is