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This chapter discusses the alien threat narratives—stories that promote a fear of the outsider. For the better part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the chapter emphasizes that these decades-long narratives have fostered a sense of resentment and underwritten a slew of anti-immigrant projects ranging from the 1980s and 1990s English-only education movement to the emergence of the “crimmigration” movement in the late 1990s. It argues that the political use of these criminalizing terms and narratives has fostered among some Americans a sense of sustained hostility toward unauthorized immigrants and turned them into convenient political scapegoats. Given that backdrop, the chapter utilizes a real-world sample of the people immigrating to the United States, one that the author could compare or contrast with the politically constructed scapegoat. To extend a metaphor, the chapter aims to uncover Schrödinger's box and find out what sort of immigrant was really inside. And that box turned out to be the Department of Justice's (DoJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review, what most people refer to as “immigration court.” The chapter hopes to cast a line and see whether the author could fish out some of the violent, dangerous drug trafficking types that, according to the political press and rhetoric, were supposedly threatening America's security.
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