{"id":1325,"date":"2019-04-17T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2019-04-17T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T23:51:06","slug":"how-positive-framing-the-immigration-crisis-has-even-reached-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/how-positive-framing-the-immigration-crisis-has-even-reached-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"How positive framing the immigration crisis has even reached the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to different sources we&#8217;ve read this week, the mass media&#8217;s effect on people&#8217;s interpretation of the immigration crisis is powerful. Most media companies frame immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, in a negative or neutral light. There is some variation though, such as whether the news are delivered in a Spanish or English program, or the state&#8217;s proximity to the border.\u00a0 Regardless, Latino immigrants rarely have a positive portrayal in the media.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s article argues much of the same, providing evidence that immigrants are contributing members of society. It argues that most immigrants, especially Latinos, are framed negatively. However, this argument brings to light a crying immigrant girl next to her mom, an image that perturbed Trump himself.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/06\/27\/the-news-media-usually-show-immigrants-as-dangerous-criminals-thats-changed-for-now-at-least\/?utm_term=.bfa24844457a<\/p>\n<p>Question: Would a more positive immigrant framing from the media possible influence voters enough to pressure the government to shift its current immigration strategy?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to different sources we&#8217;ve read this week, the mass media&#8217;s effect on people&#8217;s interpretation of the immigration crisis is powerful. Most media companies frame immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, in a negative or neutral light. There is some variation though, such as whether the news are delivered in a Spanish or English program, or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}