Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Crime in the Media Fall 2020

The film that I chose to watch for this media blog is called ‘Traffic’ This film was published on Jan 5, 2001 by Steven Soderbergh. This Film is about a moderate adjudicator who is delegated by the President to lead America’s heightening battle against drugs, just to find that his teenage daughter is a break fanatic. In the film an advanced glance at America’s battle on drugs recounted through four separate stories that are associated somehow. A traditionalist adjudicator who’s simply been designated as the US drug despot discovers that his teenage honor understudy little girl is a medication junkie. A wonderful strikingly attractive wife battles to spare her rich husband’s medication business, while two DEA and ICE specialists ensure an observer with inside information on the life partner’s business. In Mexico, a marginally degenerate, yet devoted cop battles with his still, small voice when he discovers that his new manager may not be simply the counter medication official he portrayed.
This narrative likewise worked admirably at clarifying how various organizations have handled settler strategies. Workers are separated by the police since one traffic stop could change their entire whole life. Cops typically possibly approach the driver for ID when they are pulled over, cops presently will approach the travelers in the vehicle for their recognizable proof in the event that they speculate they are undocumented. This implies if an individual does not communicate in English as their first language or on the off chance that they look unfamiliar, they could be halted and solicited to introduce evidence from citizenship. This narrative indicated that the undocumented immigrants and the U.S government are thinking about the inverse, they are dedicated people who were moving from war torn nations and entered the United States to look for a superior life. The narrative followed various families from various societies who were all getting away from the viciousness in their country. We examined in class that this issue of movement isn’t only an issue in the U.S. it is an issue in pretty much every nation on the planet. As the U.S government keeps on zeroing in on restricting migrants and movement, they continually push the account that immigration will consistently have inclusion in the wrongdoing in our nation.
The central issues introduced in this narrative is that the United States regards foreigners as though they are criminals and huge enterprises benefit from this criminalization. This relates intensely to segregation because of the generalization that migrants are drug smugglers or criminals in America. Rather than giving workers the correct apparatuses so as to become residents, we treat them as the criminals and enemies. The United States current organization has focused on metropolitan safe-havens by slicing subsidizing to the migrants, yet the American residents until they “they help out government in the authorization of migration laws” (Secretary Nielsen Implementation Memo January 25, 2019) This makes the suggestion that condemning migrants is compensated monetarily, while absolving and helping foreigners is rebuffed monetarily. Mass imprisonment has influenced minorities at a disturbing rate and has harmed their locale monetarily, mentally, and actually given the disregard inside these criminal justice systems.
This narrative uncovered the misfortune that families experience inside the condemned movement in the immigration system. It obliges what we have discussed in class concerning how troublesome the immigration system is on the foreigners in it and how the U.S. will go similarly as hurting their own residents so as to get consistency on the movement laws. What I had not perceived was the way troublesome the excursion could be to try and make it to the fringe. The narrative additionally shows a little bit of how these typical individuals are treated by ICE officials. They treat the individuals who are being ousted like they are in jail and they attempt to incite them to accomplish something like get into a battle to make sure they have motivation to expel them. The individuals who are trying to get a better life are moms, fathers, sisters, and siblings that are being isolated from their families and being sent right once again into the spots they were attempting to escape from. Workers will lose all that they have so as to cross the outskirts just to be treated as criminals, enemies and be isolated from their families at whatever point they do. I would suggest others watch this narrative so as to completely comprehend the impacts that this immigration system has on the individuals inside them just as the amount it takes for workers to arrive.

Raunya Mitchell

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/plotsummary

https://www.seattle.gov/police/community-policing/traffic-stops