“There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.” PeopleIdeasStatesProblemGovernmentCitiesTakenBlameLocalsImmigrantsCountyState GovernmentSheriffs Author:Zack de la Rocha
“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.” WellsMomentsPoliticalReligiousPartyBehindsViolenceUnderstoodAdvantageBlameDenialMinoritiesImmigrantsCyclesPhenomenonOutsidersPolitical PartiesIsmsScapegoat Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.” IfsWantChildrenRealJobsRiskOur ChildrenBlameJewYour ChildrenImmigrantsTargetWagesRefugeeTempting Author:Adam Hochschild
“It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.” PeopleIfsWorldWantHeartAgePastMistakeCenturyHavensBlameComplicatedImmigrants20th CenturyDisturbingSame MistakesOld ThingsHeart BreakingComplicated World Author:Moby
“[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.” KindEffectsPolicyPressureCrisisBlameClimateMindsetImmigrantsVersusRecessionsTimes Of CrisisValveInsurance Policy Author:Andrew Lam
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.” FactsSufferingWhiteCommonAttentionIssuesEconomicDangerousTrumpRacismProgramDirectRootsBlameAvailableFormerAfrican AmericanBotherVotingImmigrantsVotersDistressMisogynyWhite SupremacySupremacyXenophobiaEconomic Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.” IfsNeedsFeelsCareLibertyBenefitsComfortableBlameImmigrationImmigrantsIllegalCitizenshipCautiousBirthrightIllegal ImmigrantsSubsidiesBe CautiousIf You CarePersonal LibertyFree Education Author:Ron Paul
“When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.” HumansLooksParentColdPoliticianResourcesBlamePhonesChinaCellsGirlfriendImmigrantsPairsPoolJeansBathroomExesSkinnyCell PhoneNo MoneyUndoneHuman ResourcesTaxiBatteriesCabToddlerMarvinTilesEx GirlfriendUndocumented ImmigrantsSkinny Jeans Book:Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation Source: Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
“It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.” HardStatesAmericaNationsSocialEconomicHard WorkBlameThese DaysImmigrantsMexicoFashionablePolitically CorrectCentral America Author:Roger Mahony
“Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.” PeopleNeedsHateForeverMomGoes OnBlamePrisonImmigrantsIllegalSingle MomIllegal Immigrants Author:Winona Ryder