Racial discrimination has horrible effects on immigrants and their living conditions in the United States. The conditions in the five points were horrible and while laws were put in place to try and help the area, they were of little to no effect. The white flight of course did not help. With the highways expanding out of the cities and into the suburbs, it sent the whites with them. The white population saw the immigrant population as a threat and used the suburbs as a place to hide. With the whites out of the cities, funding was cut off to cities as they were seen as dangerous investments.
It’s strange how this cycle is almost a self fulfilling prophesy. The whites are afraid of immigrants so they leave. This cuts money to the cities, making them more dangerous. The dangerous-ness sends more whites out. Rinse and repeat. It can’t possibly be blamed on the immigrants who have no choice but to live in these areas. It is the racist policies that caused the issues in the cities. Just because it’s law, doesn’t make it right.
