Border checkpoint

The task force consisted of 450 members assigned with guarding a small portion of the 1,933-mile Mexican border. In 1980, the border work force was expanded from 450 workers to 2,200 members and spending towards border control was increased. When the 9/11 attacks took place there was much concern for the security of our nation. The ability for the Al-Qaeda terrorists to easily enter the country sparked fear within…

My father was born in Mexico in 1969. When he was younger his family did not have much money. His older brothers had to work to help support the family because their father had gone to America to find work, and did not send money back to his family. They did not have many of the things like we do now. An example of this was my father and his sibling had to make their own sandals. These were made with rubber from old tires and string. Jose, my uncle, was the first sibling to cross over into…

are under a dark shadow of negative assumptions and criminalized for being an immigrant. Society doesn’t see immigrants as asset to the United States when in fact they contribute just as much as any other American. Because immigrants and the Mexican border are seen as “bad” political policies are set in motion that oppress…

like before Hitler came to power?” Hans replied, “It was peaceful, no tyrant was roaming the land using young men to fuel his war machine that is the German nation.” That night, Hans and Pierre jumped off the train and ran to the French border. They ran to the border and tried to scale the wall with their sweaty hands and panicked breath but the guards noticed them and shot Hans as soon as they saw him. Hans howled like a wolf at the full moon when the bullet entered his lung. The bullet…

This shows the purpose of Trump’s side of the argument, which is that he wants to improve America by reducing illegal immigration rates by having a permanent border wall and increase fees on all border crossings. Following up on his belief, Trump wants to construct the new immigration policy that will, in his opinion, return the safety of laws for the American people. The immigration policy also proposes the mandatory return of…

A fortified border which spans 155 kilometers separates east and west, communism and democracy, and repression from freedom (Walled In: Germany’s Inner Border). This barrier is known to many as The Berlin Wall. It became a significant symbol that represented all of those things depending on which side of the wall you were on. The events leading up to the building and destruction of the wall were very important to not only the Germans, but also to the whole world. The wall itself was a very…

In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander discusses the legal mechanisms used by the criminal justice system that contribute to the mass incarceration of African American males. Among sentencing laws and prejudice in jury selection, Alexander (2010) identifies stop and frisk policies as a discriminatory practice that allows police to racially profile African American men when stopping and searching them in the streets at higher rates than…

In Borderlands, the speaker struggles with fitting into a specific category of race, leaving her feeling unaccepted by any of the five cultures she is made up of. In stanza one, Gloria explains how she may be “ hispana, india, negra, espanola, [and] mulatto” but still is not accepted into any of societies categorizations of race. This expresses how Anz can personally identify herself with her mixed races, but the members of the specific races can not. Gloria also struggled with being pushed…

It is because culture refers to the cumulative system of knowledge shared by the group, as this group has, it is their cultivated behavior and the accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, it is their way of life as a group of people, beliefs, values and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. It also included the material objects and possessions acquired by the group…

The fact that the movie is called Wetback is to show just how much social inequality there is for these illegal immigrants. Just to try to live the “American dream”, these people go through checkpoints, starvation, possible robbery, and among other, even death. While the people of the United States have their own sense of poverty, it is much more prevalent in the southern countries. There isn’t a lot of work to be given around in the countries, and a lot of their money comes from what illegal…