Borders of the United States

Matt Bear Mr. O’Hara International Relations 4 December 2014 America and Mexico: Where Are They Now? The United States and Mexico have been official neighbors since Mexico gained its independence on September 27th, 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence. Since then, their vast borders have been shared and disputed between the two nations and its people, with different problems arising such as illegal immigration and, more importantly, the mass trafficking of drugs and narcotics. In fact,…

and greatest gadgets and technology. In contradiction with border security technocrat is seen as addition to new technical initiatives that were to try to stop a terrorist from infiltrating the country to devise more strikes. Such methods as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative, which was considered by Attorney General John Ashcroft to be one of the answers that would help discourage and eliminate illegal Absconder in the United States. This led to numerous difficulties for the administration…

World War II, though arguably seen as early as the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the United States has often been referred to as an “empire” as it’s militaristic, economic, and political grasp has expanded around the world. What were once clear instances of imperial power seen in examples such as France’s expansion throughout Europe under Napoleon…

Maddie Galvan Prof. Aquino Ethics: Decolonizing Religion 12 December 2015 Latin American Methodologies of Anzaldúa and Althaus-Reid In her book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa details the various borders she found present in her life. Through personal experience, by means of prose and poetry, she highlights these invisible fronteras between men and women, Latinas/os and non Latinas/os, and homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, Anzaldúa most closely examines the…

Terrorism as it relates to border and transportation security is changing daily as new types of threats present themselves, new ideologies on the part of the terrorist become prevalent and the changing priorities for Emergency Management Officials based on these events. As an example, the days of seeing a would-be terrorist hijacking a plane with explosives strapped around his torso are a thing of the past. However, it is now possible for liquid explosives in the amount that would fill a…

distant to be in America. There are people from the Caribbean islands to African and so forth. Every human in the United States should be consider as an immigrant because our ancestors wasn’t established in United States; unless you are naïve Americans. The United States is a nation of immigrants but the issue can sometime be focus…

When Americans think of the United States southern border they believe its rife with illegal activities primary done by illegal immigrants. In reality most illegal crimes such as drug smuggling are being committed by United State citizens. This information that Americans were mainly transporting drugs over the border was widely unknown to the public particularly when authorities mainstream foreign suspects especially from Mexico. For this reason, it appears the border is not secure and gives a…

While going through various articles on the illegal trade going on in the southern border between Mexico and united states of America, I realized that both countries have suffered more so the young people because they form a larger percentage of the people involved in these illegal trades (drug and human trafficking).as the drug barons get rich everyday, young citizens from both countries get disadvantaged. They are the ones that face the law instead of the ‘big thieves’ –the drug barons. Human…

recently hit the news time and time again within the last decade, and frequently lead to a debate. The majority of those heated conversations often involve the United States of America. Those passionate discussions have ignited a spark in a series of countless debates dealing with drones and the future they possess with the United States of America. Some may not know, but drones are also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAV’s for short. A UAV is exactly what it sounds like. First, you have…

the west. The debate between the government has intensified as whether slavery should be allowed in the new territories taken from Mexico after the Mexican-American War (Corbett, et al, 421). From 1790 to 1860, the number of the salves in the United States has increased to 4 million from 500,000 (Howard, 171). The North advocated to develop capitalism, limit and even ban the expansion of the slavery in the west, on the contrary, the South upheld the expansion of the slavery in the west and the…