RESEARCH DESIGN 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). TYPE OF DATA USED The author has employed the use of qualitative data in order to draw out and support his ultimate conclusions. The author has used several types of data sources, including the BSI data system. The BSI is described as a “problem based policing strategy for data collection.” SAMPLING PROCEDURE USED A random sampling procedure was used to help remove bias in the author’s data collection. The data was collected from different websites that analyze border security. Random sampling procedure was effective because it helped the researchers choose from different previously-conducted research designs, and provide a summary of information collected from different areas of study. The dependent variable in the study is border security, while the independent variable in the study is the immigrants. From the research presented in the article, it is evident that the issue of border security is influenced by the issue of immigrants in the region (Rugg & Petre, 2007). FINDINGS OF THE STUDY According to the findings of the s... ... middle of paper ... ...ility of the experimental method is somewhat limited in that some outcomes cannot generalize into real world outcomes. The design method used was also expensive, since there are several pieces of equipment and tools that were required to complete the study. Further, the reliability of the study is limited in that it failed to identify and analyze the relative import of other factors that could lead to fatal accidents, such as localized infrastructure deficiencies. (DAlessio, Stolzenberg and Terry, Clinton, 1999). References DAlessio, S; Stolzenberg, L., and Terry, W. Clinton III (1999). Eyes on the Street: The Impact of Tennessees Emergency Cellular Telephone Program on Alcohol related Fatal Crashes. Crime and Delinquency, 45(4): 453- 466 Rugg, G., & Petre, M. (2007). A gentle guide to research methods. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
In Jason de León's eye opening and heartbreaking book The Land of Open Graves, we get an indepth ethnological account of the many people who's lives have been shaped in one way or another by the Mexican-American border, and the weaponization of the inhospitable Sonoran desert. In this section of border crossing, 4 million undocumented migrants have been arrested (more than one third of all immigration arrests), and countless others have tried, failed, succeeded or died (1). De León also frames Border Patrol as a tool of state-sponsored structural violence and highlights the horrendous after effects of free trade policies for tens of millions of immigrants seeking to regain what they had lost. The author also details the ethical and moral
Throughout the book, the author tried to portrays the CBP and ICE as feeding monsters, who always keep the detention center beds filled and reap the federal budget. The thesis revolves around the militarization of the Border Patrol Agency, detention, deportation, humiliation and harassment of illegal immigrants by the agency, erosion of civil liberties, NSA’s privacy violations and a careful research to expose a vast and booming billion dollars industry. He shows that how the entire country has become a militarized border zone, with consequences that affect us all.
The Devil’s Highway is the name given to a long stretch of unforgiving desert located in southern Arizona. This section of desert is ruthless for many natural reasons, but the large death count attributed to the desert not entirely environmental. The Highway is also a dangerous boarder crossing spot for those trying to illegally enter the United States. While attempting to cross this strip of land immigrants face discomfort from the elements on top of a fear being detected and apprehended by boarder control. Many Immigrants will do anything to avoid being discovered by border control. In their efforts to avoid being apprehend immigrants may run away from not only law enforcement, but also those traveling with them, including those leading them across the unfamiliar desert. These immigrants find themselves lost and alone on the Devil’s Highway. With no direction they are more susceptible to death. In his book, The Devils Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea tells the story of twenty-six men from southern Mexico that attempted to be smuggled into the United States through the Arizona desert. On their journey these men were confronted with boarder control and became separated. In the end only twelve of the men survived. This book takes a unique look at the harsh landscape those crossing the boarder face, the difficulty illegals have dealing with Coyotes (hired people-smugglers), the boarder patrol officers that try to prevent illegals from getting into the United States, and the economic effects of having illegals die within United States boarders.
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
Thesis Paraphrase: Kil and Menjívar (2006), in their article titled “War on the border,” first describe the history of immigrant criminalization and the current militarization of the USA-Mexico border and how this criminalization is a type of symbolic racism that brutalizes the public with state violence that encourages vigilantism. They then show through interviews with immigrants that this criminalization and border militarization affect immigrants even after they cross pushing them into “legal nonexistence” and conclude with policy recommendations.
Since the 1990s, the strategy of the Border Patrol has been termed “prevention by deterrence” and h...
The largest task for the US government is protecting the Northern American borders with Canada and Mexico as well all ports of entry. Without the proper border security, we cannot have a secure nation. After 9/11, the government spent billions of dollars upgrading the nation’s security systems but borders security remains weak. The borders are an unobstructed point of entry for illegal immigrants, drugs, weapons, money laundering, human trafficking and terrorist groups. The security challenges along the border offer a variety of issues. The current model in use to protect and deter illegal immigrates, criminals, drug lords, terrorist and human trafficking is ineffective. It is the government’s responsibility to stop these illegal activities and provide protection from all the current problems. The US must set the goal to tighten its border security to decrease the free flow of illegal activities and potential terrorist and WMD’s. This paper will highlight the current problems with border security and the illegal activities that surround the border.
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.
With the increasing number of undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the U.S. border patrol sought new strategies to prevent more illegal crossings. In the early 1990s, Prevention Through Deterrence was a new strategy created by the border patrol in hopes to deter immigrants from crossing the border (Henderson 130). This new strategy started with Operation Blockade and with Operation Gatekeeper following right after. In Timothy Henderson’s Beyond Borders, and Jason De Leon’s The Land of Open Graves, they both discuss the positive effects of the border patrol’s Prevention Through Deterrence strategy, but also address how the strategy didn’t prevent immigrants from crossing the border, but rather shifted the traffic of immigrants into rural areas, putting their lives in danger. Prevention
The federal prosecutors along the nation’s southern border have come under pressure from politicians and from top officials in the Justice Department to pursue more cases against illegal immigrants. Not many politicians are suggesting the government prosecute everyone caught slipping across the border. Despite about 1 million immigrants stopped each year; however that will overwhelm the nation priso...
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