Borders of the United States

With Minnesota being a border state, it is common for some residents to travel back and forth across the border that we share with our northern neighbor. What many of them did not think about is whether having a past criminal record can make it difficult to get into Canada. Most people believe that a passport is sufficient. However, the truth is that border officials have the authority to turn away anyone who has been convicted of any crime at any time in his or her life – and that includes DWIs…

because of its close proximity to the United States and Canadian border and its location on the great lakes which provide freshwater. The great lakes are a big spot for Canadians to travel to because of the location on the water and the warm temperatures. Having these two attributes make it a good spot for Canadians to have a cottage. Southern canada having a close proximity to the border makes it popular amongst Canadians that like to travel and or shop. The border being close means you…

controversy with the United States and Mexico. Going to war differentiated between the people, but in the end a great deal of people paid the price for going to war; Mexico was described as a prize to the United States. There were significant events that led up to the rivalry between the U.S. and Mexico. There was the annexation of Texas that started the controversy with Mexico’s government. The river that divided Texas and the U.S. was the Rio Grande, which was the proper border between them;…

The United States was founded upon the principle of democracy. In fact, the binding behind all aspects of American government is an important document known as the Constitution of the United States of America that states all policies and principles necessary in order to structure a democratic governmental system. Democracy can be summed up by one important phrase present in the United States Constitution: “We the people…” and when the people change, political structure and policy must adjust to…

Boundaries and borders can be physical or symbolic, visible and invisible. These boundaries and borders represent ideas or ideals dependent upon the position of a society in relation to the border. The Open University (2016a, p.175) states boundaries “can have different meanings for, and effects on, different people depending on gender, race, ethnicity, class, age and many other social characteristics”. The construction of borders is often supported by the concept of justice. However just as…

principal architects of United States foreign policy during the period following the end of the Second World War. He talks about laws, police, and underground movements for drug cartel. How is it that the drug cartel is still able to move drugs across the border? The power struggle in present-day Mexico between major rival cartel groups and the Mexican government has evaded the appropriate amount of media and government concern. 66% of all medications that come into the United States traverse…

see the U.S Mexico border as a marker of territory belonging to the U.S and the territory belonging to Mexico. However, to many others the border symbolizes and means much more than that. Gloria Anzaldua, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz and Alejandro Lugo speak of these other meanings that many times are swept under the rug. In The Homeland, Aztlan from Borderlands: La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua speaks of the differences between the experiences of people living on the U.S side of the border and of those…

necessary for the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to end World War II? Some people will say it was necessary after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec.7, 1942 and the battle of Iwo Jima. I believe Japan’s location, supplies, and its economic state during World War II made it very vulnerable…

to be an alternative to this illegal immigration reformation, the stereotypes that all illegal immigrants think coming to the United States is a ‘free ride’. Mexican folks who cross over the border illegally, are not jumping it just for fun, they cannot feed their families in Mexico, and it costs a lot of money and processing to even legally start a new life across the border. The fact that different cultures aside from the American one, have many children because it is sometimes necessary from…

ended the short-lived Mexican-American War and awarded the United States more than half of Mexico’s territory. As the border moved south to the Rio Grande, between 75,000 and 100,000 Mexican citizens suddenly found themselves living in American territory. They were unfamiliar with their new country’s laws, language, and customs, and although the Treaty had awarded these new Mexican-Americans the full protections and rights of United States citizenship, it did not lessen the tensions caused by…