Border Insecurity?

Based on the commentary editorial from New York Times, “Border Insecurity” the nation is so confused and conflicted by the uprising of immigration concerns. From San Diego on the Pacific to Brownsville on the Rio Grande, a division constructed as a steel curtain is descending across the continent to keep out illegal immigrants. This nation used to be a “confident global magnet” that embraces the flow of immigrant workers and U.S citizens to be. Now we no longer want to nurture it but instead we are stooping ourselves down on the idea.

The Department of Homeland Security has been reinforcing an ineffective system consisting of fencing and sensors, trucks and boots on the ground. Where there is a lot of desert and mountains in border areas like Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, we are investing billions of dollars for a fence. In my opinion, we are spending billions to build a "real" fence but nevertheless, from the beginning did we spend enough to build real dams or levies in New Orleans to keep hurricanes like Katrina from entering. No amount of fencing will deter illegal crossers because this will only motivate and give way to other illegal activities. Border-town officials insist that to build the fence we would have to build new roads that will connect to the old ones. These will be something useful for smugglers to pass illegal drugs to the neighboring states.

In Texas, the fence is a “dotted line”, blocking some places but not the others. Since that it cuts through the University of Texas at Brownsville and blocks the migration of wildlife, we no longer hold the principle of conserving nature preservatives.

Like any legal immigrants while crossing deserts and mountains, they are sweating and riven to find the American dream and stray away from poverty. Their show of hardship in this country through the economic eye should give us a passion to find an effective system to help them not push them away. I agree with this article that we need to find a way to supply visas and give immigrants the legal entrance to the U.S rather than “chasing them across the desert” with guns. The Border Patrol should have the technology and resources to catch drug smugglers and other criminals.

The strong government that we said we have isn't so brilliant because this system they put down shows the inability/incapability of what government can do.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04tue1.html?ref=opinion