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"Study Finds Corruption on Rise among Border Agents, Rep Says Security ‘at Risk’." Politics. Fox News, 15 Jan. 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2014. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F01%2F15%2Fstudy-finds-corruption-on-rise-among-border-agents-rep-says-security-at-risk%2F>
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The article by Rob Guerette is a case study involving the widely-reported increase of immigration into the United States. It tackles migration issues as well as related issues such as border security , security initiatives by individuals.. The article also provides in-depth research about the impact of illegal immigration into the United States including migrant deaths, deaths of non-migrants at the border, border security and the challenges faced by United States border patrol officers. The main purpose of the article was to provide an explanation as to whether the Border Patrol has any effect in saving the lives of people attempting to enter into the United States (Guerette, 2007).
A leading American historian on race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States, Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol tells the story of how Mexican immigrant workers emerged as the primary target of the United States Border Patrol and how, in the process, the United States Border Patrol shaped the history of race in the United States. Migra! also explores social history, including the dynamics of Anglo-American nativism, the power of national security, and labor-control interests of capitalistic development in the American southwest. In short, Migra! explains
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The police have taken an oath to enforce the law and ensure public safety, but when criminals violate the law, citizens are at risk of living in peace and security. In 2012, McCaul authored, “ A line in the Sand: Confronting Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border” (“Congressman Michael McCaul, “2017”). As a result, there was an “increased presence of Iran and Hezollah in Latin America and their relationship with drug cartels that control smuggling routes in the United States” (McCaul, Homeland Security, 2014). For this reason, cyber security increased and this is where order and freedom conflict. Since there is an increase in surveillance such as, monitoring citizens’ movements, imprisoning suspicious people and eavesdropping on phone conversations, citizens think that there should be a limitation to how much police power there is because it is interfering with their individual freedom (Janda 14). In my opinion, McCaul emphasizes on this issue substantially. Ever since the bombing of September 11, ISIS and Al-Qaeda have become a major threat in America. Chairman Michael McCaul stated in a recent video, Meet the Press, “Their training ground, state that they are creating in Syria, and now Iraq is far surpassing what we saw before September 11. They are the number one threat to Homeland Security” (Homeland
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I have friends who work border security in Arizona and they are told to let groups of 20+ go and not report them. If they do they get in trouble and can be suspended, demoted or relocated. They have their hands tied in a lot of areas. When they are threatened and use deadly force they are scrutinized more than a regular police officer in a similar situation. They also have limited personnel and funds for their mission and requirements. The border patrol really needs an overhaul and Washington to stay out of policing
A writer for “The Daily Beast,” Andrew Becker reports that this additional step came “at the tail end of a massive hiring surge that began in 2006 and eventually added 17,000 employees, helping to make the agency the largest law enforcement operation in the country.” This arouses great unease and concern about “the thousands of employees Customs and Border Protection has hired over the past six years before it began mandatory polygraph tests for all applicants” (Becker). The records—official summaries of more than 200 polygraph admissions—contain many very disturbing testimonies of applicants admitting to drug smuggling and even murder (Becker). One confession, according to the Customs and Border Protection summary, consisted of an applicant admitting to having “‘no independent recollection of the events that resulted in a blood-doused kitchen and was uncertain if he committed any crime during his three-hour black out’”(Becker). The fact that thousands have been hired without the screening cannot be ignored. It is this negligence that is the cause of agents such as Justin Tackett—an officer who “had a dubious work history long before joining Border Patrol”—being able to find employment within the Border Patrol agency (Peter.) Tackett’s employment history is such as follows: “[he] joined
Vaughan, Jessica M. “Aliens Who Overstay Their Visas Are a Serious Security Threat.” Opposing Viewpoints: Immigration. Eds. David M. Haugen, Susan Musser and Kacy Lovelace. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2009. 182-193. Print.
In the article Corruption, Drug Cartels, and the Mexican Police, Glen comments, “In March 2010, Lesley Enriquez Redelfs, an employee of the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, was shot to death in her
"Teens Who Crossed US-Mexico Border Alone Entering Schools." Fox News. FOX News Network, 29 Sept. 2014. Web. 07 Oct. 2014.
The Mexican government has tried to initiate and ramp up efforts to combat crime while at the same time trying to build a stronger government and country for quite a while now.These crime and drug trafficking rates all started to soar when Colombia moved their trafficking routes from the Caribbean to Mexico in the early 1980’s (Insight Crime). For many years one of the main issues for Mexican people, which is still a current issue, is that even though there are around 80,000 armed forces trying to prevent and combat people from these crimes, those forces are not doing enough for the country. Migrants in the past have crossed the border, which resulted in them moving to California where agricultural work was steady, which is currently less steady as the previous y...
"International Efforts by Police Leadership to Combat Human Trafficking." FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, June2016, p.1.EBSCOhost, Indianapolis.libproxy
Protecting our border should be high on the priority list. The southern border stretches 2,000 miles from Texas to California. The border is not flat, so it is not easy for illegal immigrants to just walk through, the terrain is diverse from harsh mountain ranges to huge and desolate deserts. There is also the Rio Grande River, the Chihuahuan and Sonoran desert which is an aid for a natural border that restricts immigrants to cross. I believe we should try to do as much as possible to secure our but, I don’t think there is much else we can do because we don’t have much money to spend on it.