Controlling Immigration Essay

Controlling immigration, while enforcing legal migration, along with continuing to protect the border, is an incredibly difficult realm to not only control but to properly enforce as well. Throughout the United States’ history, as a country created by immigrants, the U.S. has made it a point to continue to allow legal migration, whether it be with work, school, or simply travel visas. Starting with the implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed in 1986, the country had finally established a reason to blame not just the government for the torrential shift in illegal border crossing. The security of the border, however, was not truly blamed until the early 1990’s when California’s self destructing economy collapsed, and the best of all scapegoats was the illegal …show more content…
Not only did this not put the politicians which had been controlling the money perversely in the past in the limelight, but it also put the issue, and the blame, on the Federal governments inability to ensure that the borders were safe for the American Citizens. In order to protect the federal employees, and the current border officials, there was a campaign thrown together to make it seems as if it was simply a lack of resources and manpower, which have strewn together this illegal immigrant ‘problem’. Politicians, along with border patrol alike, got together to display their cause as being ultimately unfunded by the federal government, and in need of immediate and vast improvement, both monetarily, along with a definite demand for more manpower. Nothing was stated during these times, however, about how the states agricultural logistics relied on a 50% illegal infrastructure. Most of these illegals, however, had not entered the United States illegally, they simply worked past their visa allowances, still ultimately breaking