Scottish Borders

Whether or not the United States should build a wall to secure the border around Mexico is a controversial topic. The controversy is mainly over the cost and true purpose of the wall. Many people wonder if there is a need for the wall to be built, while others are pushing for the massive wall to be built. Many do not believe the wall would stop the immigrants from illegally crossing at all. “Human migration routes are like rivers: If they hit an obstacle, the flow finds a way around it” (Chappell)

administrative data on Washington state recreational marijuana sales, which became legal in July of 2014. Data found that marijuana retailers spread across the Washington-Oregon border suffered a 41% drop in marijuana sales as a result of the new recreational marijuana market in Oregon (Hansen, Miller, Weber, 2017). Washington also borders Idaho and Canada, but these places did not have the same decline as

Limitless Borders limit the way we interact and feel about the world around us. Borders are a kind of protection where when it’s crossed a person may feel violated or uncomfortable. When you first meet someone are your walls put up and surrounded by electric fences and barbed wire or are the gates wide open? In my childhood, I let everyone in my life without question. In about eighth grade my insecurities made me put a cage around my thoughts and my relationships with others. I created a border in my

by xenophobia and hardline immigration preferences. Distaste for illegals and desire for a return to solid borders rocketed now-President Donald Trump into the White House. European elections have also been heavily influence by the anti-immigration wave (Marine le Pen, for instance, campaigned on grounds similar to those of Trump in France, and did so successfully). In general, however,

Border regions, as described by the political distribution of lands divided by those who inhabited them, have been a long-time source of unrepresentative and poorer health outcomes. The physical dividing lines between countries are meant to be delineations in cultures and societies that define the responsibility of governmental outreach and human services. However, for example, due to relatively unstable and uncontrolled migration along the Haiti-DR border, along with instability in border, along

Immigration policy and foreign policy are in many ways interlinked, as they are often used to meet goals in one another’s policy areas. Together, they are used to enhance the safety of our citizens, making this topic particularly important. Immigration is specifically linked to our foreign policy efforts with underdeveloped countries (Keely 1978). To fully understand one policy area, you must understand aspects of the other. Thus, one should consider these relationships when analyzing and evaluating

been a false sense of danger in people now fleeing the United States and illegally entering Canada. Communities around the Canadian border, as well as the asylum seekers, are at risk. We believe the federal government should resolve to act to stop the flow of illegal border crossing from the US border into Canada. Our 3 main reasons are: Firstly, Illegal Border Crossers deplete resources while waiting for screening when in Canada. These resources are then not available for legal refugees coming

Restrictions Borders are in our everyday lives. Each one of them affects different cultures, politics, and even just personal space. As you’re growing up, your experiences shape on to the borders that you end up creating to fit your needs of being comfortable with what goes on around you. While Borders are a good form of protection they are also a form of restriction. They limit the way we interact with the world around us and create emotional borders in our life that are incredibly hard to take

nature of what people are moving or “transing” between” (Stephen, 2007, p. 23). She elaborates that Oaxacan migrants cross ethnic, cultural, colonial, and state borders within Mexico and the U.S. along with the national border. With this definition, when discussing the transnational collective identity, taking into consideration the many borders the Oaxacan migrants cross, there is a visibility of the discrimination and racialization they face within the

The Unlawful border crossing in the U.S. Southern border has been of political interest for the past decades. It has been the primary source of the illegal trades into U.S. from Mexico. Despite the government efforts to end the act, there have not been long-term solutions to the Menace. The vital approach is to understand the structural nature of the border and the socio-cultural nature of the inhabitants that facilitates the illegal act across the border. The lawful bill in place seems not to offer