Americans celebrate President Franklin Roosevelt as the leader who turned the fortunes of a country on the brink of an economic collapse during the turmoil of the 1930s Great Depression. According to Waldrep and Bellesiles (2006), the administration under Roosevelt drafted a raft of policy changes in a document famously referred to as the New Deal. In his tenure, Roosevelt saw a resurgence of the American economy, lifting several families from poverty, bankruptcy, and unemployment to sufficiency in record time (Waldrep & Bellesiles, 2006). While these policy guidelines were tremendous in attaining national stability through expanding the economy and social spaces in the US, they were detrimental in the manner in which the National government took control of the security systems in the country. Among the factions that found the new structure of governance in the country to be disadvantageous were the immigrant populations. The paper highlights how the New Deal in disguise propagated ethnic conspiracy against immigrant people of Hispanic and Asian communities.
The national government, under Roosevelt, sought to take control of the state security agencies by increasing funding to departments on border patrol and National Guard that were under the national government. The federal government funding of New Deal projects aimed at offsetting the imbalance in opportunities at local state levels (Waldrep & Bellesiles, 2006). The government guise of using the new deal as a social revolution program in protecting "Americans interests" appeared to be a discriminatory approach to immigrants who were considered as "Non-Americans."
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The perception spread nationally that an influx of immigrants, especially immigrants of Asiatic and Hispanic descent, were a threat to national security. Local communities, therefore, began viewing immigrants from an opportunistic perspective. They considered them either illegal in the country or posed a danger to available employment opportunities to other Americans (Waldrep & Bellesiles, 2006). The case is relevant in today's crime and labor environments where security agencies at the national level have managed to profile immigrants based on their ethnicity continuously. Hispanic immigrants from Latin America are always perceived to be in a drug and narcotic business. In contrast, Asian and Islamic immigrants often considered posing threats to intellectual property or terrorism, respectively.
References
Waldrep, C., & Bellesiles, M. A. (2006). Documenting American violence: A sourcebook . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
