Border Wars and U.S. Immigration Enforcement

Countries that offer better living conditions attract people from foreign countries. The foreigners want to experience some of the bounties of the more affluent country. Some people come to join family members that have already become permanent citizens in the destination country. They want to be united with their families.

Some people come to escape mistreatment based on politics, religion and on racial background.They desire an opportunity to express themselves without fear of imprisonment or death. And some people immigrate to more affluent countries to escape their justice system. They are criminals fleeing from the consequences of their illegal behavior.

The most recent  reason some people come to a foreign country is to protest the life style of that country. They wish to strike fear in its citizens and cause chaos  fear, suspicion, and mayhem in the country.Those people are called terrorists. Regardless of the reason people come to a foreign country, they are all known as immigrants.

Currently the world and especially the U.S. is targeted by a group of people. They are not in agreement with many of the U.S. values. They feel the U.S. caused their way of life to be wrongfully disrupted. They wish to retaliate and make the U.S. experience the anger they feel towards the United States. Their views do not necessarily represent the majority of people of their country. They want to cause a disruption in the status quo for the United States.

The people trying to cause chaos in a foreign country and in their own are called terrorists. Terrorists represent a minority of the population they come from. They do not limit their to behavior external people's. They often create fear and mayhem in their own countries. They want to be heard and recognized but their method of gaining recognition and acceptance is contrary to what they wish to accomplish.

The U.S. was attacked in 2001 by terrorists. The retaliation of the U.S. gave terrorists a feeling of accomplishment.They feel they could again strike the U.S. Every since, they have used tactics they feel will penetrate the core of the U.S.

As a result of increased efforts by terrorists to enter the country illegally, immigration controls have tightened in the U.S. and around the world.U.S. immigration controls and especially for California and Canada have been tightened. The borders of the United States are more tightly monitored to control the entry into the country by terrorists disguising themselves as immigrants.

The Mexican immigrants,for the most part did not mean harm to Americans. Many come to the U.S. with visas and green card documents. They try to work within the boundaries of the immigration laws upon entry into the country. The immigrants are willing to do work most American citizens are not willing to do. They want to send money back home to Mexico to family.in the meantime, they find work where they can find it. Some immigrants come from Mexico illegally. However innocent it seems, coming into the country illegally creates problems for the U.S.

The people that come into the U.S. without authorization become illegal immigrants. This was a problem the U.S. was handling on a low priority basis. But due to the intense and aggressive behavior of terrorists, the immigration problem was upgraded to a high level problem. The U.S. became acutely aware of the dangers of illegal immigration.

Terrorists have become part of the illegal immigrant influx into the U.S. They disguise themselves and enter the country. Terrorists become a part a part of the American population. They await instructions to act on plots designed to disrupt American life style.

The U.S. Immigration Department was primarily interested in how people entered the country. They were not focusing on who entered the country illegally. The people that came through secret passages and a number of other creative ways was where their focus was. Border patrol workers spent much of their time checking for and exposing those attempts.

After 2001, the U.S. realized there were serious flaws in the manner the borders were controlled. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in an effort to centralize not only border controls but form a communication basis for protecting the country's security.

The DHS and the Immigration and Naturalization (INA) are tools used by the U.S. to control and eliminate illegal immigration activities. Of primary concern is terrorists activities that lead to entry into the country.

Illegal immigration can cripple a country. Everyone must abide by the rules set by the country the immigrants enter. Immigrants are asking to be accepted by the country of entry. They wish to leave behind them a life style they did not favor.

If immigrants enter the new country legally, they are in agreement with the rules of the entry country. If immigrants enter the country without proper authorization, they are illegal immigrants. They do not necessarily agree with the way things are done within the country of entry. Many of the illegal immigrants are seeking a chance to change their life situation.

Some illegal immigrants enter the country  for unpopular and evil reasons. They wish to change the country of entry and cause fear within its citizenship. They wish to make a statement that they will work outside the established rules. They wish to create a sub-world.

Because sub-worlds have a tendency to fester and grow, the country of entry must actively find those individuals and deport or prosecute them. If left to their own devices, they will become a waring entity.

Immigration enforcement is primarily for the protection of the country of entry. It is not and should not be used to a harass a certain group of individuals. Especially if they abide by the laws of the country. When people are singled out based on reasons other than established rules, that is called "profiling."