Immigration & The Border

Economic instability, hardship, and seemingly perpetual poverty. Most United States citizens sit comfortably in prosperity and fail to think of anything that would be less; however, for our neighbors to south, prosperity is the last thing encountered on a day-to-day basis. Mexico’s poor have flocked to America illegally as a result of unbearable living conditions and scarce economic opportunity. This has become a growing problem in the United States, as many undocumented illegal aliens have found ways to avoid militarized border points. In many of these instances of illegal crossings, the cost for anticipated freedom and opportunity in the United States has been the price of death, as illegal immigrants have ventured into the dry, hot, vast and lethal conditions of the Sonoran Desert. In evaluating the current conditions of United States immigration policy, it is clear to see that increased militarization is not the best method in combating this problem; in fact, the only effective m...