In the United States, borders have went from being patrolled by a few hundred agents in certain areas, to over thousands of agents at designated regions around the United States. Immigrants have always held a vast percentage in the United States, “More than 43.7 million immigrants resided in the United States in 2016, accounting for 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population of 323.1 million”(“Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States”). The percent of tribal Indians from Canada in the United States is significantly dropping, “… either due to a lack of cultural awareness or a misunderstanding by officials with Customs and Border Protection, tribal members have been deeply offended or had their travel
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Even though, the border patrol are giving the mother a tough time about giving the identification of an American or Canadian she continues to tell the border system the same response of Blackfoot. The mother is determined to get across the border to see her daughter with the citizenship of a Blackfoot Indian because of the personal identity she has always grown up with on her reservation. The border patrol officers and the boy in the story do not understand the point the mother is trying to prove to the world by showing it is not right to force her to pick a citizenship, just to be accepted in America. As the boy and mother sleep in a car for multiple nights, not being able to get back home into Canada or into America to see her daughter, the world starts to draw attention to the situation. After the media arrives, the mother has the best platform to prove her point of pride in her race and not just forfeiting the fight against the border patrol to get into the United States to see her …show more content…
Since the numbers of immigrants were increasing vastly, “The Border Patrol responded with increases in manpower and the implementation of modern technology. Infrared night-vision scopes, seismic sensors, and a modern computer processing system helped the Patrol locate, apprehend, and process those crossing into the U.S. illegally”(“Border Patrol History”). The borders were being bombarded all around the United States, so Washington began to grow interest in getting the borders under control to keep out all the illegal immigrants. The mother in the story was held at border patrol because she would not give the citizenship the officers at the border patrol wanted to hear. The States want the natives to change their beliefs and citizenship to become accustom to the new rules adapted at the borders, but the mother is not backing down and is set in her ways about her Blackfoot citizenship. It is not right of the United States to make the natives change their beliefs, since the natives had always been allowed to roam were ever they wanted to chase the buffalo herds. And never had to worry about being titled as the citizenship of American or Canadian, so why should they have to pick now. As the U.S. receives word about the situation going on at the border they become mortified, and allow the mother to pass through the border into
Even though, the border patrol are giving the mother a tough time about giving the identification of an American or Canadian she continues to tell the border system the same response of Blackfoot. The mother is determined to get across the border to see her daughter with the citizenship of a Blackfoot Indian because of the personal identity she has always grown up with on her reservation. The border patrol officers and the boy in the story do not understand the point the mother is trying to prove to the world by showing it is not right to force her to pick a citizenship, just to be accepted in America. As the boy and mother sleep in a car for multiple nights, not being able to get back home into Canada or into America to see her daughter, the world starts to draw attention to the situation. After the media arrives, the mother has the best platform to prove her point of pride in her race and not just forfeiting the fight against the border patrol to get into the United States to see her …show more content…
Since the numbers of immigrants were increasing vastly, “The Border Patrol responded with increases in manpower and the implementation of modern technology. Infrared night-vision scopes, seismic sensors, and a modern computer processing system helped the Patrol locate, apprehend, and process those crossing into the U.S. illegally”(“Border Patrol History”). The borders were being bombarded all around the United States, so Washington began to grow interest in getting the borders under control to keep out all the illegal immigrants. The mother in the story was held at border patrol because she would not give the citizenship the officers at the border patrol wanted to hear. The States want the natives to change their beliefs and citizenship to become accustom to the new rules adapted at the borders, but the mother is not backing down and is set in her ways about her Blackfoot citizenship. It is not right of the United States to make the natives change their beliefs, since the natives had always been allowed to roam were ever they wanted to chase the buffalo herds. And never had to worry about being titled as the citizenship of American or Canadian, so why should they have to pick now. As the U.S. receives word about the situation going on at the border they become mortified, and allow the mother to pass through the border into