Border-Crossing Program Analysis

The logos used in this book are through politics. Urrea makes clear that it’s Mexico's blame for putting people on the "devil's highway" through corruption and dense politics. But he also shows how misguided the United States policy has been. The author describes the conditions and historic events that lead to the beginning of the illegal immigration into the United States and draws a clear parallelism with our times, when there are several tasks in the United States that Americans are

Hispanic immigration to the United States stems primarily from uniquely developed push-pull migration mechanisms in which “interplay of national, regional, and global economic developments, the history of U.S. military and foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere, the checkered history of international border enforcement and interdiction efforts, and, not least, the aspirations of Latin American migrants and potential migrants themselves” (Gutierrez). In other words, migration from Latin American to the United States shouldn’t have been consistent, however, there are several factors that triggered massive waves of such.

I want a better life, please don’t kill me, I want a better life, please don’t torture me, I want a better life, but I might have to starve to have one. Wanting a better life consist of being killed, tortured, and having to starve. Immigrants face these things when wanting a better life. Immigrants face many obstacles that they must overcome in order to better their lives.

Guarding the Golden Door by Roger Daniels provides an overall clarification of the immigration system in the United States throughout the past and in latest policies. Ever since 1882, America claimed that the settlement objective was to prevent it from occurring, although it permitted the complete opposite. Thus, the single factual policy that has been realistic to American immigration is that it is on a constant twist of shifting policies, which are changed according to the present nature of inexpensive employment for American manufacturing demands. Almost all of the American immigration policy has been shaped by people that did not comprehend the outcomes of the tactics they badly tried to generate, and who made open door policies simply to close them.

Border Patrol and U.S. CustomsBoth Border Patrol and U.S. Customs work together under the same agency, and worktowards the same goal, yet they perform their duty tasks differently. Protecting the nationsborders from drug smuggling, human trafficking, and terrorism is not an easy task to perform.Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs officers perform this risky task on the front line of ourcountry by putting their lives in danger on a daily basis. Although Border Patrol (BP), and U.S.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) differ in work location, and work duties they also sharevarious similarities in pay, benefits, and outcome.The officers working as CBP and agentsworking as BP risk their lives at their work of duty, and they both work towards the

As the political landscape in the United States continues to include increasing levels of immigration reform and border security rhetoric, an understanding of current capabilities and operations becomes a vital component when forming an educated opinion. Army National Guard soldiers and aircraft provide a crucial layer of border security, employing the UH-72A Lakota helicopter equipped with technology designed to assist law enforcement agencies in drug interdiction and undocumented immigrant apprehension. Shortfalls in United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) capabilities opened the door for military involvement to stem the influx of illegal immigrants, as well as slowing human and drug trafficking (Lawson, 2012). Today, the UH-72A

According to many local news sources, such as CNN, the border is more secure now than it has been for the last four decades, but, how good is it really when in 2016 more immigrants crossed over the border than they did in 2015, just around 6% came in. In addition to that, according to the United States Census Bureau (Document A), since 1940 immigration has been spiking and won't stop going up in the amounts of people that come in. Legal immigration is exceptional, but the flaw in other immigration is that 60% of immigration is done illegally.

The U.S. Border Patrol to me is very important to the United States of America and to me as well. Without the Border Patrol, America would be a goat standing in the middle of a wolf cage. The Border Patrol and their agents border the boundaries of America so we can be safe in our homes. People don’t realize how important any kind of law enforcement is, until the day that they need assistance comes. I don’t take our men and women who protect us Americans; it is something that not everyone can say that they have. I have no one in my family that has worked with the Border Patrol, and I want to be the first in my family to join the Border Patrol. I am from Del Rio Texas, a border town neighbors with Mexico. The U.S. Border

The beginning of this text, Alden summarized the current measures we are taking to secure the border as well as screen the peoples that come into this county to be a student, visit, or for employment. The author described how the government has changed over the past couple of decades to the current day on how people can enter this county for the variety of reasons and is able to attempt to detect the unwanted from entering as well. He summarized how “loose” the borders were in the past to how much more secure they are in the present.

The concept of securing the border limiting immigration is reliant on the fact that by having a “fence” it captures more illegal immigrants, rather than not having one at all. To better secure the border the fence is a first step. I think that there are better ways to secure the border such as employing more unemployed Americans to help patrol this barrier. I feel that in today’s society many Americans would rather see their tax dollars going to use. I would also suggest we pull more troops out of Iraq and encourage their use on our home soil.

The U.S. Borders are here to protect the U.S., but are they really? The borders prevent illegal immigrant coming to the U.S., buy yet they don’t seem to be doing their jobs. There is a border dividing Canada and Mexico.

The border between Texas and Mexico encompasses 1241 miles from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley. Border security is an issue that must be currently addressed by Texas legislature, as Texas is one of the states along the U.S Mexico border that experience tremendous amounts of illegal immigrants and criminals whose intentions are to provoke havoc through drugs and weapons smuggling onto the U.S.

The next major issue addressed by a large number of Americans is healthcare. It goes without saying that a significant topic at the time of the Congressional turnover is the Affordable Care Act. This is another example of democratically legislative piece being pushed and opposed by a Republican voting body. Prior to the elections in November 2014, the President of the United States and the Senate acted according to Democratic Party ideology, while the sole source of power for Republicans, the House of Representatives, opposed their efforts in vain. Because Republicans only controlled one house of Congress, this meant that Democratic efforts were able to succeed and healthcare was opened up to many new citizens (citizens who had previously been

The border control issue and illegal immigration focus can be traced back to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. While the act did impose limited employer sanctions, the legalization component set the stage for illegal immigration as a priority in political campaigns (Andreas, 2009). Many previous legal and illegal immigrants returned to the United States to take advantage of the opportunity to become legal residents. This fueled the illegal immigration patterns by providing a stronger base of support and additional networking for documents, jobs, and housing (Andreas, 2009). This influx of illegal, cheap labor became particularly noticeable in California, prompting the passage of Prop 187 to reduce the availability of social services to illegals in 1994. Each of these elements contributed to the beginnings of illegal immigration as a component of political campaign platforms.

The importance of a border region has always been an issue of sovereignty--which national or international power can claim the right to control a border? The U.S./Mexico borderlands are no exception, and the transgression between malleable policies and stringent militarization has occurred rapidly throughout the 20th century. The high levels of socioeconomic and political ties that have existed within the border regions of California, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona have evolved since the boom of industrialization that occurred after World War II. The development of a relationship between the United States and Mexico has been intertwined since the 1800s and policies concerning border politics have led us to believe that the border region is