They should not be the one
Our project is about drug trafficking and the immigration issue. At first, when we picked the topic we thought that drug has influenced people of different ages. And it always addresses to immigration problems. We believe there is a connection between these two problems. During our first meeting, I questioned that the drug traffickers are seeking for the money while the majority of the immigrants are seeking for better life status. However, what my teammates believe is the undocumented immigrants transfer drug in order to exchange the way to get in the United States illegally. I believe that is the bias most people would have because there are so many stereotype news or articles that brings up misleadings. Through the discussion and talks we had during the meetings, we developed a deeper understanding of each other’s belief. Thus, we built up a stable relationship as a team and a handful of cooperative skills. After analyzing the facts, we found out that the majority undocumented immigrants are not related to drug trafficking. Therefore, we came up with an idea of interviewing other people and see how other people think about the issue of drug trafficking and its relationship to undocumented immigrant
For each interviewee, we ask them 4 questions and we state some facts to them. The first question is “Do you believe there is a connection between drug trafficking and illegal immigration?” Different interviewees have different perspectives. Some people said they do not believe there is any connection between drug trafficking and illegal immigration, others said they think there are some connections but not one cause to another, and some even said they think immigrants use drug trafficking to exchange the way to get in the United States.
Depending on the response to the first question, we follow up with different questions based on their answers. In the end, we provide facts and data about how many immigrants are actually involved in drug trafficking. This surprised some of the interviewees and resulted in some thoughts from them. We interviewed 12 people in total, and we narrowed down and picked out some of the good responses.
After interviewing different people, we draw down the conclusion that most of the people show the biased perspective on this issue due to the misleading of media. They judge the problem subjectively without knowing the truth behind it. Some of them fail to give a reason that supports their ideas. Most of them were shocked by the data that only 17% of immigrants are related to drug trafficking. The number is out of their expectation and refreshed their opinions on it. Also, when we ask them about political question due to the immigration problem, everyone shares their own perspective about the political side, whether agree or disagree, which is interesting to us. Therefore, after the whole talking and questioning, some of them changed their mind about this issue. Most of our interviewees are from out RLC. I believe that by doing this project, we start to draw a lot of people’s attention to this situation. More and more people start to share their personal perspective with us as we were putting the project together. We are going to put the clips together to form a documentary by using iMovie. We are going to publicize this documentary on Youtube and other social media so that more people will have the accessibility to it. Therefore, more and more people are expected to be aware of the dangers drug trafficking brings as well as the importance of looking deeper into the truth before making judgments towards others and other races. We will improve on our side by reading through people’s comments and feedbacks in order to keep an eye on how the world think about our ideas and our researchers. Overall, the project helped us a lot in the sense of understanding each other as a team as well as embracing other cultures and races in a generous way. We learned to respect each other and listen to each other with different ideas. We developed a stable team spirit as well as a concrete relationship.
We posted our video on Youtube. We hope our video can reach out to more people, and raise the awareness of this issue. 4 days after we posted our video, our video has about 50 views. We got 9 thumbs up and 7 comments. Most of the viewers think our video refreshes their mind about this issue. Also, for some, who do not understand about this issue, we helped them to start getting to know the truth behind drug trafficking. Also, we are able to refresh their perspectives on the relationship between drug trafficking and undocumented immigration.
Youtube- link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A7b9g3nT8Q&t=39s