National Guard troops are bring sent to the U.S.- Mexico border to help step up security and "stem the flow of weapons, cash and people into the United States". This measure most likely resulted from pressure on the White House by Arizona's new immigration law, pushing the government to improve its policies on illegal immigration. The Guard will aid the police and other agents, "disrupt criminal organizations seeking to move people and goods illegally across the southwest boarder". Hopefully these measures will take effect quickly, or at least alarm smugglers to the point where they will cut down on their practices. However, technology such as heat-sensitive binoculars should severely damage the prospects of would-be criminals and convicts. Then again, if it wasn't so difficult to become a citizen of the U. S. in the first place, this might not be so severe of an issue.
Article Referenced:
Frosch, Dan. "Aug 1. Set as Date for Troops to Go to Boarder". NYTimes. New York Times. 20 July 2010. Web. 29 Aug 2010.
I agree with your last statement. Natruilization is such a difficult and expensive process for immigrants that they a practically forced to illegally come into the States until they have sufficient funds to pay for naturilization fees for the whole family. With minimum wage jobs most illegal aliens have, that process may take a few years. For a family for three, it whould be about $1900 dollars, not including the studying materials it will take to learn everything for the test. If America could simply lower the price of this process, there would be less of a problem in naturilization.
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