Liang Youzhi
17, NBC News released a news article about repatriation of refugees in various states in the United States, but it aroused public anger because of one of the statements "throwing refugees like throwing garbage".
Some time ago, the Biden administration of the United States overturned some entry restrictions set by Trump's period and opened the U.S.-Mexico border for immigrants seeking asylum or political protection. However, this practice has led to a large number of immigrants from Latin America influx into border states such as Florida , causing a series of problems such as public security and management for the local area.
On Wednesday night local time, Florida Governor and Republican 3 Ron DeSantis sent two planes full of border immigrants to Martha's Vineyard Island in Massachusetts as a counterattack against Democrats led by Biden High School of Economics and Economics. Many American pro-Democratic media have slammed the news for DeSantis's approach.
Ron DeSantis's data picture, the picture is taken from US media video
In this debate, Republican supporters believe that since Democratic politicians agree to take in immigrants, they should resettle immigrants in their own place of administration, rather than "generously others" to keep refugees stranded in border states, so DeSantis's approach is reasonable. But Democratic supporters called "moving refugees around inhumanely" a counterattack against the Republican Party.
However, a news from NBC finally made Republican supporters find a counterattack point.
In the forwarding of the tweet, NBC quoted an Venezuelan American social activist saying that DeSantis's practice of taking the immigration movement to Massachusetts is like "I made a special trip to take the garbage from my house out of my house and take it away from me and throw it away."
From a contextual perspective, the speaker is putting himself into DeSantis's position, intending to say that DeSantis treats immigrants "like garbage". However, this attack on the opposite side does link immigration with exaggerated and insulting expressions, which led to the introduction of NBC News being severely criticized and ridiculed by many American netizens not long after it was posted.
For Republican supporters, they believe that the reason why NBC and speakers adopt this statement must be that "the deepest part of their hearts regard immigrants as garbage." These netizens have attacked NBC and this social activist who has always advocated accepting refugees, "exposed". Many people have followed suit and given insulting nicknames to these Latino immigrants, calling them "corn cakes."
Even Democratic supporters and relatively neutral people think this quote is not appropriate because it does make everyone associate between "trash" and "immigrants", and this linkage has also been widely spread by NBC on social networks.
As of now, NBC News has deleted this tweet, but the original report containing this sentence is still retained on its official website.
However, judging from the arguments among American netizens, it seems that everyone is not as concerned as they say "the human rights of immigrants" and "whether the expression respects people." Many comments discuss "NBC news has failed" and "people who support immigrants have exposed their inner thoughts."
From this perspective, immigrants who are compared to "trash" are like a "card" played by two groups in the United States.
