Anti-Immigrant Ideology in Behavioural Processes
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the federal government’s power here does not impinge on another participant. From this explanation, it can be said that the assignment of the federal government as the
behaver in behavioural process depicts them as not assertive and incapable of applying immigration reform properly.
Therefore it implies that due to that incapability, the government had better not make possible for the enactment of immigration reform. This depiction aims to evoke
readers’ disagreement towards the enactment of immigration reform. Therefore, it can be said that from this explanation of behavioural process, The Washington Times is a
newspaper which is anti-immigrant.
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How will
the Department of Homeland Security
deal with those aliens Circ:manner
Behaver Circ:accompaniment
Behavioural Clause 28a
The behavioural process in this clause is will deal. By using the verb will deal, it is shown that the writer of the editorial is also curious as to how the government
will meet and talk to illegal immigrants when they volitionally do not want to seek legalization because those immigrants know that they have serious criminal histories.
The researcher thought that the text writer may want to convey message to the readers: “if to deal with immigrants is questionable, how will they manage to expel
the ones with serious criminal histories?” In this clause, the Department of Homeland Security is assigned as the behaver
who exercise their power to do the ‘meeting and talking with aliens’. However, it can
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be seen that the Department of Homeland Security’s power here does not impinge on another participant. From this explanation, it can be said that the assignment of the
Department of Homeland Security as the behaver in behavioural process depicts them as not assertive and incapable of applying immigration reform properly. Therefore it
implies that due to that incapability, the government had better not make possible for the enactment of immigration reform.
From the discussion of behavioral processes in The Washington Times’ editorial, it can be said that the government are depicted as not assertive and
incapable of applying immigration reform properly. By this depiction, the text writer wants to evoke readers’ negative prejudice over the application of immigration
reform if it is enacted by the government thus it is expected that the readers do not give their support for the enactment of immigration reform. From this behavioural
process, it can be seen that The Washington Times is a newspaper which is anti- immigrant.