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Indledning
It is sure to say that, in every country, there is some form of immigration. Hand in hand with Trump being elected for president back in 2016, immigrants are one of the most spoken topics in the US, with many different views on it.

As a result of this people have started writing, creating online debates and demonstrations about immigrants in the US more specifically what to do with them?

How to treat them? And how they are seen and the attitude towards them. “Why do we hate immigrants”, is written by Kevin Powell, and printed in The Nation on the 8th of August 2019.

The rhetoric in the article will be analyzed in this essay which will focus firstly on rhetorical communication, and secondly the language and linguistic features, and thirdly the forms of appeal used by the author, and lastly, the argumentation and use of argumentative features, which the author uses to get his message through to the reader.

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Uddrag
As mentioned before, Powell uses his background actively in the article, which is also shown in the language.

He uses the first person’s pronouns first in the article “I am not an immigrant. Nor am I the child or grandchild or great or great-great-grandchild of immigrants …” .

This indicates his deep connection with his African American heritage and he acknowledges his ancestor’s unreasonable life conditions and their hard work for better living conditions .

Powell uses allusion in his article when he mentions “The strange-fruit hanging from our bodies” when he lists what African American have gone through.

This also supports that the receiver is an educated adult, who knows America’s history. Powell uses another allusion when he refers to Donald Trump’s election campaign from 2016, about expanding the Mexico-US border wall.

Powell makes it more clear to his audience that this article also is a criticism of the Trump government .

Anaphora can also be found in the article, where Powell “We have known” several times “We have known starvation and premature deaths.

We have known families being torn asunder and children left parentless. We have known torture and abuse and trauma handed from generation to generation (…)

We have known forced movement…” . This supports the repeated and ongoing injustices suffered by African Americans.

He also uses Anaphora to support the deep connection between immigrants and himself “If they are the victims of a mass shooting, then I am the victim of a mass shooting.

If they are being detained, then I am being detained. If they are being denied proper food and medical attention, then I am being denied proper food and medical attention “ .

Powell identifies with the immigrants when he states that if something happens to them is also happens to him.