Death at the Border

Ever since the fall of the economy in Mexico sometime around the 1970’s America has seen a dramatic increase in Mexican immigration. There is no doubting the advantages that come with immigration in terms of cheap labor for American farmers but immigration into the United States is undoubtedly becoming more and more dangerous each year. The ideals of our Capitalist society have lured around 3 million undocumented Mexican immigrants into America. Whether they are coming in the back of freighters, fording canals, or attempting to endure the rough terrain of the dessert they are flirting with death for a chance at a diminishing dream.

Nothing is promised for their efforts as many immigrants do not make the trip into the United States. For reasons such as starvation, hypothermia, heat stroke, and even shot by ranchers along the border, 369 immigrants died in 2000 trying to cross into the U.S. There have also been documented incidents within the United States as immigrants find once they arrive in America it is hard to leave for many reasons.
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/immigration.html

Immigrants are finding that America doesn’t have much to offer for an illegal immigrant anymore. With the economy struggling in the United States and many farmers being forced to only use legal citizens for work, illegal immigrants find themselves in a similar situation they were facing in Mexico. The opportunity to come to America and provide for their families back in Mexico becomes more of a fairytale every day that passes. With the proposed reinforcements at the border this would only become more of a challenge as immigrants find returning home to be a tricky task. By putting tighter restrictions at the border it only becomes more dangerous for the immigrants. The numbers reported are sure to grow as survival forces immigrants to head north or struggle to survive.

It is quite simple for many Mexican immigrants, stay in Mexico and you will scratch and claw to provide for your family and in the end it just may not be enough. That is why they must pursue the American dream, in hopes of surviving, not necessarily thriving. So why set death traps along the way making survival even more of a challenge? Well you may hear rules are rules and you may hear for our own security, but surely we can see through these evil rationalizations. The tighter the restrictions we enforce the more death we are at risk to see. The rational question here is how many deaths are too many, as they will continue to happen years after year.

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