Rhetorical Analysis On Santa Cruz

The authors report on the issue of the Santa Cruz police and its people being angry with the actions taken by the feds during a raid. They are mad at the feds for arresting undocumented immigrants while on a separate mission. The Santa Cruz police claim that they only agreed to the plan for DHS to carry out the raid with the condition that undocumented immigrants are not arrested. However, the feds went ahead and arrested eleven people to which they claim were detained because of immigration violations. The city mayor supports the arguments presented by the Santa Cruz police, arguing that the detention of the immigrants violated the trust of the Santa Cruz’s people. However, ICE counters this by stating that the city’s response was intertwined with politics. The article efficiently employs the persuasion methods and emphasis to influence the reader, but indicates a bias in their document. The authors make use of the appeal techniques to convince the reader about their position. Pathos is widely employed in the text with the aim of evoking emotional feelings and understanding the perspective of the Santa Cruz residents. First, the introduction sets the mood of the paper; the authors begin by …show more content…
As one reads the document, there is a clear indication that the authors aimed to gunner the readers’ support towards the people of Santa Cruz. The writers place more focus on the issues highlighted by the Santa Cruz police and the mayor than to those of the feds. For instance, when reporting about Flippo’s disgust with the lack of communication, the writers first paraphrase the statement, including the words “violated his trust” and “he was upset.” The reader can see that the aim was to highlight that the feds were on the wrong side by betraying Flippo’s trust, and that of Santa Cruz’s residents. The lack of equal representation of both parties creates a bias that impacts on the credibility of the intended