Border Control
A huge debate topic is what to do about so many illegal immigrants coming from Mexico to the United States. Some say that we should build more of a barricade and find more border patrol to prevent them from coming in, but a fence will not keep out the majority of those who want to come in to the U.S. When a triple-fencing was put in the San Diego area, it did cut back on the immigrants coming in at that area, but in a nearby area, the numbers greatly increases. Unless we want to build a fence along the whole border, which would be just plain crazy amounts of fencing and about 9 billion dollars, we need to find a different solution. Even if we were to reduce the amounts of illegal aliens substantially, the problem would still remain because of those who come legally, but overstay their admittance. There is also an ammendment that is in the works that would deny undocumented immigrants their drivers license and also raise judicail pwers of deportion. This seems pretty basic to me. But it's such a complicated issue. There are several strategies that are being suggested and discussed and this article talks about a few of them. This is a huge issue to our country and it is reflected in our budget. Besides defense, border protection is one of the highest areas of growth in our budget. http://www.ailf.org/ipc/policy_reports_2005_fencinginfailure.aspIn another article, it talks about how Mexico needs to do its part as well in helping to control their immigrants. Mexican and U.S. lawmakers discussed several relevant topics concerning this yesterday, at their 45th annual meeting between these two legislators. They also discussed a bill that was passed by the House of Representatives to build a 700 mile wall on the border. The Mexican legislators thought this was a stupid idea, and are completely opposed to it. I really don't think it's going to do a whole lot of good either. But Mexico does want to help the border control and this is a step in the right direction.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14014673.htm
posted by Anonymous @ 3/04/2006 05:34:00 PM
1 Comments:
I think the article and the whole issue itself is very interesting. Right now this is a very large issue and it's tough to think of a solution. I do think also it would be a crazy idea to build a large fence that would cover our whole border. That is just not possible. How in the world though does an illegal immigrant get their driver's license? How much background is checked when a license is issued? We were also talking about a similar issue in Government with refugees from Cuba coming to the United States. The rule for that is if a refugee from Cuba can make it to United States land and sets foot on it they can stay. However, this is not the case with Mexico. I think the difference here would be political assylum (sheltering refugees) since Cuba is under a dictatorship, but I don't know the exact difference of this. It's interesting to see though how and why we accept some people easily into the country and others not.
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