The US/Mexican Border must Change
The US and Mexican boarder has been a common political debate now a days because of the overwhelming flow if illegal Mexicans in the United States. People feel that these illegal’s are stealing jobs and threatening security and the boarder needs sealed off and guarded from these intruders. However there are to many problems with that theory. Some include the dangers of Illegal’s crossing, maintaining a boarder that big and, the big problem, the cost.
The boarder between Mexico and the United States has always a back and forth situation. At one point the United State accepts the Illegal Mexican workers to come over and work for American companies and then they will turn around and make the leave. An example of this is during World War two, while Americans were leaving to go fight in the war, the United States brought in “Braceros.” Bracerosare Mexican contract workers to pick up the slack. The Braceros had worked in the United States for a couple of years and had made a good living. They had become very skilled at their jobs and were had settled down in America. Then the war ended and after all there work, the United States put in act the “Operation Wetback” program. This basically said pick up your things and were taking you home right now. Now, that these works have gotten a taste of the American life and money they can make, they want to come back in, even if it means illegally. This was originally not a very big problem but when the economy started having trouble and people were becoming unemployed they started pointing fingers. They think all these Illegal’s are taking their jobs because there is so many of them here and that is because the boarder is not secure and it needs to be bo ...