Theory of Fernanda

Link to annotated opinion column: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_tV7ec0-abvdsF4R599zgNhkOyPA1aZGQegDG160Io/edit?usp=sharing Original Text: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis amid caravan arrival Tijuana asks the world for help as thousands of migrants crowd the border town. President Trump was right to order troops to our border with Mexico to reinforce our overworked law enforcement officials and protect our sovereignty. For nearly 100 years, the U.S. Border Patrol has defended our boundary with Mexico against terrorism, drug trafficking and illegal immigration – three serious threats to U.S. security. The U.S. military and the Border Patrol have a history of working closely together. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush deployed U.S. military forces to the border to work in concert with the Border Patrol to strengthen our defenses against increasingly problematic infiltrators. Those who believe the president’s deployment of troops to the border was a political stu...

Introduction #1 Power and Privilege. How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.54bb1b6c7087 Washington Post's Opinion Column, "Separating children from their parents at the border 'breaks my heart'" presents a sympathetic and liberal view towards immigrants whose families have been separated by Trump's zero-tolerance policies. Overall, through the use of statistics, diction and comparisons of the migrant camps to Japanese war camps, the author uses pathos to appeal to the reader's need to nurture. Consequently, the author aims to portray Latin American immigrants in a more humanitarian light than the rest of mainstream media has to provoke reflection on the country's immigration policies and incite action. Introduction #2 Power an...