Hammer Approach To Immigration Essay

The U.S. immigration policy is like a hammer and a nail. If a hammer is the only tool you have, you’re obviously going to treat everything as if it was a nail. This relates to Obama’s answer to all of the immigration problems: send them back to where they came from. This is the hammer approach; the same tactic the U.S. uses in dealing with every complex foreign policy issues when a solution is out of reach. We’re faced with stubborn Middle Eastern countries: shoot them, bomb them. We’re confronted with millions of illegal immigrants: deport them. This is the same response every time and it continues to fall short every time. Illegal immigrants are flooding the country by the millions, yet the government has consistently failed at preventing …show more content…
One solution was to grant amnesty and claiming that the immigration reform legislation would secure the border and strengthen visa security (“Immigration”). Amnesty is an official pardon for people who have been found guilty of a political offense. This will not stop illegal immigration; it will only encourage more as seen from the rising number of immigrants. It could also cost the U.S. trillions of dollars because of the welfare program for these immigrants. In relationship to amnesty, Obama recently called for Republican help to support an immigration bill. However, these Republicans remembered Reagan’s failed Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“A Reagan Legacy”). This made them approach the bill with caution, remembering how amnesty did not work for the U.S. in 1986. Also, the reason why deportation is not reasonable is because the Administration will pursue two billion dollars in emergency funds from Congress to carry out the deportation (“Immigration”). This will only add to the United States debt. There will probably be a wave of deported immigrants within a short amount of time which means another two billion dollars spent on a solution that didn’t work in the first place. One of the more obvious solutions is border patrol; however that doesn’t seem to stop the ongoing issue of illegal immigration. In order to prevent any more illegal immigration, I have proposed a solution to solve the problem. My proposed solution is to issue and install landmines in the ground where the illegal immigration occurs. This would inevitably reduce the amount of illegal immigrants trying to cross the borders because it would create a life and death situation, no in between. The immigrants would either choose to risk their lives by crossing the border will all the hidden landmines on the ground, or not risk it at all in stay in their home