Eusebio Immigration

Both articles explain what is going on in the U.S. southwestern border and also explains why immigration is happening. They also explain how we can improve the situations and also give us a better understanding on how to handle the situations. In Savants article it gives you some reasons why some immigrants cross the border, He gives an example of a guy named Eusebio. Eusebio has a sick daughter. Eusebio has poor hourly rate pay that he can no longer pay for her medicines. He really doesn't think about breaking the laws at this point. He thinks of his paternal duty and acts not out of greed but out of desperation. (375) He also makes a statement of legality or starvation. That's another reason why people come into the U.S. illegally. Imagine just the thought that if you don't have money , their family would die of starvation. …show more content…
He states that a lot of immigrants came into the U.S. through entries without inspection and that perhaps 40% of the illegal population entered the U.S.. Legally on some type of visa and just overstayed. “The decrease in the number of arrests at the border is sufficiently steep. Arrests on the Mexican border exceeded one million almost every year since the early 1980's and totaled almost 1.2 million in 2005. In 2007, arrests were under nine hundred thousand ,over half a million in 2009 and 328,000 in 2011. That 2011 number is the lowest seen in the country since the early 1970s.” (377). This statement means,that maybe people aren't trying to cross anymore. Maybe the situations and struggles they face here in the United States are the same they face in their country. They just rather stay with their family and try their best from whichever country they come from. They think they going to be