This discussion forum will stick out from the rest in that it will deal specifically with the state of California.  Accordingly, for your Week 5b. Discussion Forum please follow the instructions for posting your article.  Do not forget to write your responses in “question and answer” format.  Include the number in which you are responding to.  Use at least one outside scholarly peer-reviewed source (not counting the article that you must summarize) to validate your information.  Only use APA formatting for your “in-text” citations and include your Reference List entries at the end of your responses. 

1.)  Submit an article (that is, post its hyperlink) that relates to any facet of immigration in the state of California.

2.)  Summarize the article in 150 words or more.

3.)  What is your opinion of the article’s premise.  Do you agree or disagree with it?  Answer in at least 200 words.

4.)  Now respond to two or more peers.  Each response to your peers is 100 words each.

*Don’t forget that your initial response to the discussion prompt(s) is always due by Thursday evening by 11:59 p.m. and then your two peer responses are always due by Sunday evening at 11:59 p.m. (and not a second later).

The article analyses the relationship between pandemic and xenophobia. It built on several studies in the past that show that periods of crisis, such as the World War II 9/11 attack and the Cuban Missile Crisis, tend to deepen racial antagonism. During the two world wars, Germans and Japanese who were already American citizens were singled out and secluded base don