Keep checking back as I will be adding readings and other information.
Readings for Thursday 11/17
2006 Immigration Reforms
Reading for 11/30
Mexico - The War Next Door
Videos
O'Reilly and Heraldo
Immigration by the Numbers Part 1
Immigration by the Numbers Part 2
Benefits of Immigration
NBC News "Patrolling Smugglers Alley"
NatGeo's Border Wars on Hulu
President Obama is receiving fire from both sides:
President Obama's Immigration To-Do List Is Almost Complete
Obama's Illegal Immigrant Crackdown
Obama Rolls Back Immigration Enforcement - Again
Obama Deportations...
Immigration Page
Blog response (due Friday 12/2)
You must advise President Obama or a current Republican candidate on a policy for immigration reform. How should he/she address both the numbers entering and the legal status of those currently in the US? How do we secure our borders? Make sure you support your proposals with evidence from the video clips and news stories linked to this site.
27 comments:
I believe that nothing is happening in the United States to stop immigration. The immigrants are basically getting away with anything because there are so many of them. The president or whoever is going to take this problem over needs to start solving it fast. Some things I believe that need to be done are the fence, the guards, and the rules. The fence that is supposed to help keep the Mexicans out is not finished. This allows them to take advantage and just simply walk over. The fence should have been finished when it was started. We as citizens pay the government taxes, so it’s not like they don’t have any money. There should be tons more guards on this job. Although it is a little bit risky, we need more, the more the better, more guards to stop the immigrants from coming here. I believe the biggest thing that needs to be changed is the enforcement on this. If they successfully cross the border without getting caught, they basically don’t get in trouble. There are people here in the US that can’t get jobs but illegally Mexicans can. How does that make sense? So overall there is a lot of work that needs to be done to stop the immigration in the United States, but needs to happen fast.
With the 2012 presidential election quickly approaching, the immigration issue has received much attention from all candidates. The United States has to find a better, more efficient way to address the number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. This vast region is currently patrolled by guards and electronic surveillance. However, the guards can only catch about 10% of those sneaking across. Even with the 700-mile fence being constructed, determined masses are able to find ways through much too easily. The efficiency of the fence is thus doubtful, so the government should focus their resources on a tighter border patrol system instead. Also, once the Mexicans find an urban area, they quickly melt in with the city, making them nearly impossible to discover. For this reason, the border patrols need to collaborate with the urban law enforcement in their effort to root out illegal immigrants. It would be nice if the Mexican government could control the drug cartels in their country, but as of now, these criminals have a better hold than law enforcement on many Mexican cities. In a way, we are helping these drug traffickers; the United States is where they find the demand for the drugs, as well as the weapons needed to intimidate law enforcement. This is a point the must be addressed if any progress is to be made in reducing drug trafficking. In addition, harsher penalties need to be implanted for those trying to sneak across the border. The current catch-and-release policy is merely encouraging them to try again the next night, and at this rate, we will never be close to controlling our borders. As far as how to handle the illegal immigrants already living in the United States, I support the compromise proposed by the Senate in 2006. This bill provides a path to citizenship for those who have been living in the U.S. for at least five years. Those who have been here for two to five years would be issued temporary work visas, and those who have been here for under two years would be deported and required to file for citizenship through legal means. In this way, the government will not be granting a blanket amnesty, but it is also more practical than attempting to deport roughly 11 million immigrants. Ultimately, to avoid the problem of dealing with 11 million illegal immigrants, we need to keep them from getting across the border in the first place.
Immigration has been an ongoing issue in the United States for years. The fence separating Mexico from the United States is unfinished and has clearly been unsuccessful. Millions of immigrants have been able to walk right through it without any problems. This fence needs to be finished and upgraded in security in order for the money spent on it to be worth it, and to successfully prevent immigrants entering the country illegally. I believe that immigrants should be given a chance to live a better life in America as long as they enter the country legally. The number of immigrants entering legally should be restricted to a certain number every year so that the overpopulation doesn’t become an issue. When people crossing the border illegally are arrested, there needs to be a better system than the current catch and release system. Many immigrants who go through this process go back to Mexico and end up crossing the border again, this time without getting caught. There needs to be ways to prevent this from happening. There should be more guards stationed at the border and more advanced security systems. I agree with the immigration proposal that states illegal immigrants who have been living and working in the United States for five years will be given a work visa, and eventually are given an opportunity to become citizens. However the others who have been in the United States for less than that are sent back and given the opportunity to come back legally. I think this is a fair compromise and could also help to eliminate of many of the illegal immigrants here.
I agree with most of the actions Obama is taking to figure out policies for immigration. I agree with him trying to create a group in order to go through the 300,000 removal cases because that is the way that we will be able to crack down on who is supposed to be here and who is not. What I would add to the policy is that I think that we should grant amnesty to illegal immigrants who have been living in the United States for more than 10 years and have no criminal record whatsoever. To all others found that have lived here less than 10 years should be sent back. I also think that immigrants that would like to become U.S. citizens should only be allowed if they have not had a criminal record in Mexico, have not tried to cross the border illegally and if they have an intention of getting a job. If they are to become U.S. citizens the government should make sure they are working and contributing to society and if not they should be sent back to Mexico. These policies would help control the amount of people coming into the United States and the illegal immigrants that are already here. After watching the videos in class and on this site about the border I believe that the government is doing a great job of trying to catch people sneaking across. The huge fence built was a very good idea because border patrol drives around looking for people trying to sneak over and also because cameras can spot almost everything. The man that was able to track peoples foot prints also really comes in handy because they catch many people and are able to see different trails people take. The security at the border also catches a lot of people who try to smuggle others and drugs into the United States and I think that they should keep up the good work. People should not be trying to sneak across the border; instead they should just apply for citizenship and look for work. But one more thing I would add to my a new policy would be to try even harder to make sure people that have been caught sneaking over the border and sent back don’t do it again by having fines so they will not want to do it again because if there is a chance they could lose a lot of money for sneaking over I feel as if they would not want to get in trouble again.
My suggestion to Mitt Romney for immigration reform includes managing the current illegal population present in within the borders of the United States, as well as limiting the penetration of our borders. First I would advise Romney by establishing rules to grant amnesty to those illegal aliens that are currently in the U.S. Those who pay taxes, contribute to the economy, and have never been convicted for a crime should be allowed to stay legally with green card representation. As far as restricting flow at the borders, the Romney should suggest a plan that raises the amount of border patrol agents at the border and should invest in a "virtual fence" at the border that would be costly initially but in the long run would prove beneficial in slowing down illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
When it comes to immigration, it seems that there isn't much we can do about it. The problem with illegal immigrants is because of how many of them there already are in the United States. It is estimated that there are about 11 million immigrants currently living in the United States. Even if there was a way to totally block illegal aliens at the border, we would still have the overwhelming task of deporting all the illegal immigrants out of the United States. I believe President Obama, or whoever is elected in 2012 needs to first focus on the border itself. What we need is more troops covering more of the Mexico border, and electronic fences. If we had more troops gaurding the border, there would definitely be less immigrants successfully making it into the United States. Although I think troops are more effectice than just fences and survellince, I do believe that just troops won't be enough. When we watched Border Wars, it really showed me the reality of what these people do every day. A few border gaurds, patrol the border and pursue illegal immigrants. This took several hours, and they caught three nonviolent honest good people. My problem with this is how long it took to only find three people. If they continued at this rate, it doesn't really have an effect on the number of immigrants in the United States. So for a solution, What I would do as president is; deploy more troops to gaurd the border, put up high quality fences, and take advantage of the best techonology available for survellince. The whole other side of this is what we should do about the illegal immigrants already in the United States. Not all of these people are the same however, and I think they should be treated differently depending on a number of things. A lot of the illegal aliens living here don't live here permanantly. Many of them are dealing drugs and many are seasonal farm workers just trying to feed their family. On the other hand, there are people that have lived here for over 20 years and they have raised a family in the United States. I think that immigrants living here for most of their lives should be able to still live here and become legal. However I think the criminals here in the United States should all be deported back to Mexico. This will not be an easy task and will take several years, but it needs to be done sooner or later.
Over the past several years, many illegal immigrants have been able to walk into the country because of the unfinished fence on the border. To stop immigrants to stop entering the country illegally, they must finish the fence and put good security to catch them. The people that get caught crossing the border illegally should not be let go because they will most likely try to get in the country again. At the border, there should be more patrol and better security so that as many immigrants get caught as possible. Only a certain number of legal immigrants should be allowed to enter the country every year so that there is not overpopulation in the country. I think that any illegal immigrants who have been here for a certain amount of time should be allowed to stay on a work visa and be able to eventually become citizens if they wanted to. But anyone who was here for less then that time should be sent back to wherever they came from and become citizens from there.
There is not enough being done on immigration in this country. To stop the number of immigrants entering the country illegally, we need to do more. There needs to be a physical fence along the entire border. In addition to a fence, we need scanners and censors to be consistently keeping watch. All along the border must be monitored day and night. This must include both people patrolling on the grounds and people watching video cameras.
For the immigrants that have been in this country for 15 years or more, we should grant amnesty. However, the people must have some type of documents proving residence for 15 years. These people have children and possibly grandchildren that are living here also. If they have steady jobs and have not committed any criminal acts, there is no reason for them to be forced out. As for the people that have been here less than 15 years, they need to be removed as soon as possible.
I agree with the immigration proposal about if an illegal immigrant can prove they have been living in the US for five years then they can get a work visa and then be given the opportunity to become a citizen. I also believe and illegal immigrants can’t prove that they have been in the US for five years then they should be deported back to where they came from. I also think there needs to be better security on the boarder. There are some parts of the boarder that has a fence and cameras but there are other parts of the wall that are easily crossable. I think that should be more people watching the boarder and they should the fence and surveillance cameras across the boarder. It shouldn’t have to take a helicopter and multiple boarder patrols to catch only a few Mexicans trying to cross illegally. Also, when they get caught there needs to be a better consequence then sending them back to Mexico so they can try to cross again. There also has to be ways detect the tunnels the Mexicans are making under the boarder so they can be caught. I think that these changes to the wall need to be made quickly to stop any other illegal immigrants from entering into the US.
I think the biggest focus for President Obama or Republican candidates regarding immigration should be stopping the flow of millions of illegal immigrants across the border. The system in place now clearly does not work. I think it would make more sense to spend money constructing a wall to prevent immigrants from even stepping foot into the United States, rather than using the money to pay for vehicles, salaries, and technology to hunt down these illegal immigrants on the American side of the border. Once caught on the American side of the border, these immigrants are typically just returned to Mexico, with nothing to stop them from trying again and again. Statistically, they will eventually safely travel into the United States and most likely for the rest of their lives. Although the construction of a wall may cost more at first, if it is done effectively, it will nearly eliminate the need for the large extent of border patrol that is used now, saving money in the long run. Also, I don’t think that all 11 million current illegal immigrants should be given amnesty. It is simply rewarding people for entering the country illegally, which send the wrong message. With this being said, I don’t think it would be possible to deport all 11 million non-citizens in a timely or costly manner. Since not all of these people should be allowed to stay, a system should be created to determine immigrants’ right to stay. However, more important than dealing with the illegal immigrants already in the country, government attention needs to firstly focus on stopping this flow now.
I believe that immigration is a powder keg, a very complicated issue where many smaller disagreements come to a head. Personally, I believe that the United States needs to take a more active role in protecting its border against illegal aliens. Mexico has slowly been collapsing, with the drug cartels gaining more and more of an influence both among the government and among the people. If the United States continues to have a lax border than it will be even easier for the cartels to move their product as well as their operations into the United States. Already close to 90% of immigrants that try to cross make it into the United States, a statistic that certainly speaks to the lack of effectiveness of the US-Mexico border.
Instead of investing even more time and money into a high-tech defense system that is still in its infancy, the United States should take the money and use it to employ more border patrol officers. In the video we watched, it took six officers to apprehend only three men crossing the border, and they had little help from the high tech defense system. This emphasizes the point that the United States placed their money in a system that wasn't near ready, and that the money would have gone to better use if it was used to pay more border patrol officers. Even the fence that was agreed upon by both parties is still in very early stages of construction. This just shows that the only truly effective weapon that the US has against illegal immigration is manpower.
With regards to the illegal aliens living in the United States, that is another issue that causes many heated arguments. Although I do not believe that it would be either possible or cost-effective to deport the 12 million illegal aliens currently residing in the United States, I do not support complete amnesty either. I believe that if people did come into the country illegally a number of years ago and have since built a life in the US, they should be allowed to stay. But because they are being allowed to stay, they should be required to give back. Whether that is in the form of mandatory military service or in community service, I believe that there must be something for the people currently residing in the US illegally to do.
Recently the issue of immigration has been on the forefront of political conversation, especially with the upcoming Republican primary. Within the Republican Party itself there are many different opinions on how the immigration issue should be solved. Particularly between the two frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, the immigration debacle was recently debated and both candidates had very different standpoints on how the problem should be dealt with. Although I agree with Gingrich that it is sad to see families split apart and desperate migrants risking their lives to sneak into the United States, I also believe that a pathway to citizenship for these illegal immigrants is not necessarily the best answer. Romney raised a very good point which asked why illegal immigrants should be granted an avenue to citizenship when there are thousands of Mexicans in line to apply and receive their citizenship legally. Why should those people who enter illegally cut the line and be granted special acceptance as a citizen before those that follow the correct process and have to wait? For this reason I believe that border security must be strengthened and new legislation should be passed to make consequences stricter for those who attempt to pass the border illegally. Part of the problem with the current system is that when the Mexicans are caught trying to cross the border illegally they are simply shipped back to Mexico so that sooner or later they can try again. By adding resources to this problem and heightening security by employing more advanced technology and personnel I think that the flow of illegal immigrants can be considerably reduced. Although on moral grounds I feel badly for the immigrants who only wish to start a better life here in the United States or get a job to send money back to their family, allowing illegal immigration to continue is not in the best interest of this country. Not only is the population increase putting a strain on the country economically, (although there have been statistics that prove how the immigrants actually help social security and other economic programs) but in addition, the flow of illegal immigration from Mexico often brings with it the threat of drug traffickers whom we do not want smuggling drugs or creating violence in this country. Overall, although I concede that there are some benefits that come from the variety of immigrants living in the United States such as the social security benefits and the increase in diversity, I think that these things can be equally achieved through legal immigration as through illegal immigration and that these benefits are not worth the disadvantages that come along with the continuous stream of illegal immigrants into the United States.
The immigrants today are able to cross the border with no problem
mostly because of the fence being unfinished. I feel the United States is doing nothing to fix this problem. I think President Obama should take care of this problem by getting better and faster security out there to catch the immigrants that were able to cross. The fence and security are a big part of stopping illegal immigration. For the people who crossed by didnt get caught, I feel President Obama should grant omnesty to the immagrants who have been in the United States for over 10 years. Those who have never had any criminal records and pay taxes should be allowed to stay here. The people who havent been here for 10 years and have criminal records obviously need to be removed from the US as soon as possible.
Rachel Lenoir
Illegal immigration has been a large problem for centuries and is getting out of hand. there were many attempts to secure our borders but were either abandoned or unsuccessful. If president Obama addressed some of these issues there would most likely be an evident decline in illegal immigration numbers. The border has been attempted to be secured but hasn't been successful. We never completed the fence which could probably be helpful and our surveillance cameras are very limited. If we complete the fence it will be slightly easier to secure the open gaps. Also if we hire more people to guard the areas it will make it easier for them to catch the immigrants that slipped through. It would also make a great difference if the Mexican police would guard the Mexican side the way we are trying. it would greatly reduce the risk of someone getting through. Since this most likely wont occur we must try other methods.
There should also be harsher consequences for crossing illegally. By simply giving them a court date or sending them back to Mexico wont teach them the lesson or detour them from trying again. If the consequence is harsher the Immigrants may be more reluctant to try to cross illegally. As for the immigrants who are already in the U.S., it depends on the type of person to decide what to do with them. Some are dealing drugs and committing crimes while others are coming just to return to Mexico after the agricultural season is over and they have earned money for their families. Some have even stayed for years undetected, have families, and are steady tax payers. These aren’t the people who are disrupting the balance in the united states like the criminals are. Therefore the already long term, civil immigrants should be able to stay while the criminals get deported back to Mexico. This will be difficult and will take years but it should help and make a difference.
The process of obtaining a temporary work visa should become easier. The process is tedious and lengthy, not even guaranteed to those who choose to wait, causing many to get discouraged and decide to take the easy way out and hop the border. It is in fact a lot easier than it should be to get in to the U.S. even though we do cut off many.
Guarding our border with Mexico has proven, for the most part, unsuccessful. It is very easy to sneak in from Mexico and around 90% of the people who try are able to just hop the fence. I would strongly advise Mitt Romney to strengthen the Mexican border. Our current border patrol is sparse. I believe it should be a matter of military policing. The increasing violence on the other side of the fence is spilling into the U.S. and that is unacceptable. If more people were guarding the border the violence could be somewhat suppressed militarily. I also would advise to grant those who are here illegally, amnesty as long as they are able to contribute to helping the U.S. economy.
For a while now, many illegal immigrants have been able to just walk right into the country. I think that we really need to find more efficient ways to stop this. I believe it is unfair that people think they can just come into the country illegally. To end illegal immigrants from entering the country, we must finish the fence. I don’t understand why a part of the border still doesn’t have a fence. It is very ineffective. We should use the money to build up a fence so that they cannot cross the border. I believe there should be more security guards at the border. I think we should not have so many troops in our countries, and maybe but some on the border. I think another problem that has caused damage is that when people get caught crossing the border, they are let go. I don’t understand this concept considering they will most likely attempt to come back in the country again. I think that there should be a limit on legal immigrants coming into the country because it is already a hard enough economy for people living here now, with the population growing, it is not going to get better. It’s truly unfair to any legal citizen, to not have a job, and have illegal immigrants have one. Overall there is a lot that needs to be fixed. The wall needs to be finished, we need better and more effective security, and lastly illegal immigration needs to be stopped.
As the 2012 primaries and race for the presidential election heats up, the candidates are coming face to face with more of the pressing issues debated over in the country. One of these controversial issues is the topic of immigration. Personally, I feel as if not enough is being done in the United States to prevent immigration from occuring. Whoever becomes the next president is going to have to deal with the issue firsthand. I believe that whoever becomes president next should put more in action to stop the flow of illegal aliens. There isn't much going on in the border to prevent Mexicans from crossing the border to America. Some of the people crossing due get caught and sent back to their homes further into Mexico; however by just catching the people and releasing them back, nothing is essentially being done to prevent them from just trying to cross again the next day. The idea of the wall blocking the fence isn't really that beneficial either. This is because in one of the videos we watched in class, a border patrol man was doing his route and all along a part of the wall, you could see the wall was bent from where people just put ladders up and climbed over it. Also we watched a video today which displayed the huge underground tunnel that was dug by a Mexican drug cartel group. The wall is a physical barrier; however, if Mexican citizens want to truly come to America to discover better opportunities, they'll find a way to get here. The only way to really stop illegal aliens from fleeing into the US is to have a borer patrol officer every part of a mile up and down the border. In theory, this may even cost less than the money it will take to build the fence in whole and maintain it over time. I also believe that all illegal aliens should be deported. It's not fair to all those that have to wait years and years to be granted citizenship. The illegal aliens presently in America should have to wait in line like everyone else, despite if they already have family here or not, because they shouldn't have crossed over illegally in the first place. However, I do think that the US should continue to grant work visas, because a lot of our agriculture relies heavily upon the work of immigrants. These visas could also benefit the immigrants by allowing them to make more money than they would at home and then by allowing them to actually return back to their actual homes.
I would advise an elected official to give undocumented inhabitants of the United States who have been here for a substantial amount of time a pathway to citizenship. It would be completely impractical to deport eleven million people. The people opposing "amnesty" know this. However, they (or the people filling their wallets) see these people as a workforce. A workforce that doesn't have to be paid social security, doesn't have to get paid minimum wage, and generally distances itself from the government. This is why they are determined to hypothetically deport eleven million people regardless of it's impracticality.
With the Republican Primaries and the 2012 election rapidly approaching, immigration is certainly proving to be a highly controversial issue. Personally I believe that the United States should focus its efforts on securing the border and vastly reducing the flow of illegal immigration. The border is an immense area of land, patrolled by border guards and, in some areas, high tech surveillance. The electronic surveillance is costing the United States billions of dollars, but is still nowhere near 100% successful and covers only a small fraction of the border. Guards currently are able to only catch about 10% of immigrants illegally crossing the border, and, even with a 700-mile fence being constructed, many determined people easily find ways through, including an enormous number of drug smugglers. This must be stopped. Instead of wasting money on hugely expensive fences and cameras, I believe the government should focus their time and money on greatly increasing the number of border patrol officers, and possibly even sending the military in. As for the 11 million already in America, I agree with Gingrich (though I consider myself to be liberal) in that I believe there should be a board that decides if illegal immigrants should be granted “amnesty” based on the time they’ve been in America and their contribution to society. In this manner, illegal immigrants that are actually helping the country will be granted to stay in America while those who are violent or those who are forcing America to supply services without giving back are deported. This does not grant complete amnesty, and therefore is somewhat of a compromise, which I believe should be accepted. However, no matter how the country deals with the near 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country, they will not be able to solve this problem without first securing the border
President Obama should address the numbers entering the United States by hiring United States military personnel along our border. Instead of building these huge, vastly expensive, and largely inefficient billion dollar fences; our country should invest in strengthening our border with manpower. A fence only prevents people from traveling straight through our border for a certain, known, amount of miles. Illegal immigrants are able to simply travel past the length of the fence, and many times over and under (as seen by tunnel and makeshift bridge video footage). In addition, while many complain “President Obama isn’t actually doing about immigration”, statistics show us that “felony prosecutions for immigration crimes increased by 42 percent during President Obama's first two years in office” according to the article “Obama's Illegal-Immigrant Crackdown: Implications for Hispanics”. I feel like a new guest worker policy is extremely important, as well as legalization for my Hispanics already here. We need to try to work this issue out with respect to our fellow workers and sometimes neighbors, who contribute to this country in many important ways.
Kelly Gunneson
I would advise President Obama or a current Republican candidate to include many proposals for a policy on immigration reform. I believe that the largest issue that needs to be addressed is what to do with the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. There needs to be a pathway for foreigners to try to apply for a visa or citizenship so that they can legally enter the country. This could help reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering the country by giving them a way to enter the country without breaking the law. The administration should address this problem with a very unique strategy. They should be put before a jury or group of advisors so that they can present their reasons for illegally immigrating, explain how they are helping our country, and inform the advisors of their current living situation in the US. Some of these illegal immigrants are harmful and are directly hurting our country and economy. But others have positively contributed to social security and have not been a burden to the economy. By creating a jury or group of advisors, there would be an opportunity for the illegal immigrants to give reasons why they should be able to stay here and the jury could determine whether or not they should be deported based on their contribution to society and their family status. In order to decrease the number of illegal immigrants entering the country, the US needs to do a better job of securing our borders. The best option to secure the U.S. borders is to build a barrier capable of keeping people from crossing illegally and also completing the barrier. There should also be a combination of border patrol workers and technology used to scan the border in order to most efficiently secure the border. This gives the advantage of utilizing the technology to allow official in a control room to watch the border while in a controlled environment and the border patrol workers can use all of their senses to get an accurate sense of where immigrants are coming from. By combining the use of a barrier, border patrol workers, and technology, the border would be best secured and most effctively decrease the number of illegal immigrants entering the country.
I believe that the United States are doing as best they can at controlling the task of Immigration. I mean they use infrared cameras, trackers, and air vehicles to watch for them and then to deport them. The problem is the sheer amount of illegal immigrants that are coming into the United States. So I believe more men must be put to the task of stopping the immigrants before they pass the border. They have all the equipment, we just need more people and maybe larger fences for more desirable results.
Immigration has been a constant problem in America, especially illegal immigration from Mexico. It is my belief that the system of building fences and wasting human resources to stop illegal aliens with a low success rate is not the way to solve the issue. I believe that the process for work visas should be easier to require, and that doing business in the United States should not require dangerous treks across deserts. I believe that Mexican citizens should remain Mexican citizens, although working in the United States in fields that require physical labor could benefit from the immigrants. I suggest the Mexicans be allowed to fully enter the United States workforce to a certain degree, and that employers would ultimately be the authority on hiring them. I think allowing them to work would solve the problem of useless government spending on boarders and resources, although few government programs would still be required to stop the flow of drugs from Mexico to the United States, which is an ongoing battle.
The current immigration system can not be improved much with out a party being unsatisfied. Instead of spending millions on higher security projects,I recommend that President Obama allocate only a few thousand troops from Afghanistan to the Mexican border. This will lead to cartels and armed offenders to be over powered by American forces. By doing anything too drastic a party will think America either is not doing enough or doing to much to seal the border, and they will feel the same about budget spent. By just allocating troops from Afghanistan budget costs are not being depleted. Also i fell that President Obama should give all citizens that have been in the US for 5 years amnesty as well as have them pay a large fine
I believe that the united states has a lot of work to do regarding immigration. Every day drugs are smuggled across our borders into our country giving the wrong people money they don't deserve. Our laws pertaining to illegal immigration are far too cushioned. If an illegal alien is caught they are basically sent right back to where they came from giving them a chance to try again while our heads are turned. The president or upcoming canadite should raise the punishment for being caught to hopefully repell many of the smugglers and illegal immigrants from entering the country illegally and maybe try to cross legally. Also, the border patrol needs to be strengthened and more guards are needed to help control the immigration. I feel that if these goals are met our borders will be much more secure and our illegal alien population should soon start to stabilize and return to normal.
The current state of the immigration issue it extremely displeasing. There are many flaws in the present border control because there are still thousands of people entering The United States of America every day. One issue is that the number of border patrol units needed to control each section of the fence is way more than the number of units we have employed at this very moment. In the devil’s highway, for example, there were 4 people in cars and 2 people in a helicopter sent out for 2 hours to capture three men. In this time, there could have been another 15 people who crossed this section that went un-seen by the units working there because of the lack of people available to the organization. My personal opinion is that the best way to secure our borders is to increase the number of people working on the fence to prevent illegal immigration. All of the other techniques are helpful, but there are not enough people to fulfill said positions.
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