ABC's of Unintended Consequences

For Immigrants and Communities
There are Unintended Consequences
of the U.S. Policies on Immigration

• Abuse
• Alienation
• Bullying
• Community conflict
• Crime
• Cultural Conflict
• Deportation
• Detention
• Discrimination
• Disenfranchisement
• Disengaged
• Disparity
• Displacement
• Drugs
• Ecological/Environmental problems
• Eroding social capital
• Exclusion
• Exclusionist elements
• Exploitation
• Externalized indirect costs
• Facilitated return
• Family violence
• Fundamentalism
• Gangs
• Graffiti
• Hate crimes
• Insults
• Insular thinking
• J-1 Spouses
• K-12 Test scores
• Linguistic isolation
• Limited English Proficient (LEP)
• Marginal living
• No civic engagement
• Ostracized
• Prejudice
• Profiling
• Public charge
• Quiet rage
• Racial violence
• Racism
• Repatriation
• Sexism
• Smuggling
• Subsistence existence
• Terrorist activity
• Trafficking
• Underemployed
• Under the radar
• Underclass
• Violence
• Welfare
• Women uneducated
• Xenophobia
• Youth disenfranchisement
• Zealotry