Comparative Essay On Immigration And Terrorism

The increase in violence in association with drugs has raised the eyebrows of several politicians in regards to immigration laws. In 2006 Time Magazine took a poll on what the American population thinks about immigration and 82% of the populations concluded that the United States Government isn't doing enough to prevent the mass migration from the south. Although immigration and terrorism do not have a direct correlation with one another, the rise in drug trafficking cases has caused the general public to concern the both of them as the same. Interestingly enough out of the entire forty-eight terrorist involved in the 9/11 attack, none were immigrants from the Mexican Boarder. Still today a vast majority of the American population feels that …show more content…
Some theorist believes that immigrant has a higher susceptibility to commit crimes based on social disorganization and the current standings of the neighborhoods in which the immigrants move into. Another study concluded that in border cities American citizens have a higher accountability for violent crimes than migrants and the only crime ere the immigrant population outnumbered the American population in regards to criminal activities was in marijuana charges (Sibila, Pollock & Menard, 2017). This, however, does not take into effect the recent push by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in regards to the arrest and deportation of illegal allies under the Trump administration. In 2017, ICE arrested one hundred forty-three thousand four hundred and forty-three legal immigrants and out of these arrest 92% had criminal convictions, pending charges or were fugitives based on immigration standards. This mass exodus of legal immigrants living on the other side of the law reinforced a strong standing in regards to immigration and crimes (Fiscal Year 2017 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report, Retrieved May 6,