Anti-Immigrant Ideology in Behavioural Processes

95 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. Excerpt 60 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 96 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.

4.2.2.3 Anti-Immigrant Ideology in Mental Processes

The ideology of anti-immigrant can be seen from the lexical choice used for the processes and assignment of the participants in mental processes. It can be seen in excerpt 61 to 62 as follows. 97 Excerpt 61 They calculate they will simply be .... released them. Senser Mental:Cognitive Phenomenon Clause 18a Below is the projected clauses of the phenomenon: that they will be simply pushed back into Mexico Goal Circ:manner Circ:place Material Clause 18b where they can easily make another attempt Actor Circ:manner Goal Material Clause 18c to run the border Material Goal Clause 18d just hours after the Border Patrol releases them. Circ:time Actor Material Goal Clause 18e The mental process in this clause is calculate. By using the verb calculate, the writer of the editorial wants to convey to the readers that the immigrants think about playing tricks on immigration guards. The assignment of immigrants they as the senser in this mental cognitive process shows that those immigrants exercise their power to do the thinking to respond to an external stimuli but apparently this has no effect on another participant. The external stimuli or phenomenon here is the next clauses: “they will be simply pushed back into Mexico where they can easily make another attempt to run the border just hours after the Border Patrol releases them”.