Border Control

Corwin Jones Jr

9/16/13

Conflict Summary

 

The conflict I am writing about is the problem with border control and how it is affecting citizens and organizations within the U.S. Through the years border control has not only become an issue of immigration but an issue of national security. After 9/11 our country not only increased security within the country security for our borders. David horsey writes in an article for the Los Angeles Times that the U.S spent 90 billion dollars for border enforcement and gave the border patrol enforcement an 18 billion dollar budget (Horsey, 2013). In this article he writes about how the northern and southern border are already militarized. This is indicative of how the U.S’s attempt to keep America safe from another terrorist attack is just putting people out there as David Horsey “with guns and nothing to do” (Horsey, 2013). Another conflict that I read in the New York times of the Loews family who own 63 acres of farm land and they go out to tend to their duties before a good night’s rest and they are seeing border patrol just stepping all over their way of making money (MILLER, 2013). This has caused problems because they are not the only ones affected by this mass intrusion of border patrol officials on the land of others.

 

References:

Horsey, D. (2013, August 20). Border patrol is becoming an occupying army in our borderlands . Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-border-patrol-20130819,0,7279239.story

 

MILLER, T. (2013, August 17). War on the border. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/opinion/sunday/war-on-the-border.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&