In California, undocumented migrants are often blamed for high unemployment in the state, although statistics show that high unemployment is not related to the number of illegal migrants. In this example, illegal migrants are victims of : the act of blaming an out-group when the in-group experiences frustration or is blocked from obtaining a goal. If poverty causes high rates of crime, the high crime rates can be used to justify discrimination against those who live in poverty. This best illustrates

scapegoating

Explanation:

A Scapegoat is usually refered to as an individual who gets blamed for thd actions of another person. Scapegoating then occurs when someone is blamed for something they did not do. The bibls is said to be an origin of the word 'scapegoat'.

Prejudice

This is having negative perceptions or opinion formed about a group without knowledge of the facts.

Discrimination

This is usually defined as a bad, unjust, unkind or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things (race or color). It is prejudice in action.

Scapegoat as an act of discrimination entails heaping blames on group or set of people, individual or group for something based on that person's identity.