United States Border Patrol

In 2006, I traveled across the country to study boarder issues in Nogales. The purpose of the service learning trip was to study border issues from Mexican’s perspective. Through my ethnographic research, I participated in a simulation where I followed in the footsteps of Mexicans crossing the border. The day began with attending a community church service where locals prayed for community members who were planning to cross the desert the following day. I connected with locals about the…

Australia united to establish the Commonwealth of Australia. The federation of Australia was a difficult process as the states could not agree on the final constitution. At first, the idea of Federation was quite unpopular. Each colony had view themselves as a country and citizens had grown patriotic of their own . One of the more prominent reasons for why the states should federate was the abolishment of tariffs. Tariffs were taxes people had to pay in order to cross from one state to…

This migrant issue has become a problem because of the Syrian civil war, the war between the government and the rebels is the main reason of migration. This civil war began nearly four years ago and has terrorized the country. Syria’s government has resorted to drafting citizens into the army, this led many choose the risky option of taking a 20-minuet route through Turkey and Greece. The route originally required a boat to sail through the Mediterranean Sea, like in the odyssey, but this new…

of refugees from surrounding poor countries and Syrians fleeing war. Migrant crises is nothing new to The United States and its southern states being discussed in, “America Is Committed to take more Syrian Refugees, According to John Kerry”(Reuters and Vice). Details how many refuges The United States is going to bring in. In 1975 National agreements sent 275,000 refugees to The United States as a result of war, “What History Can Teach Us About The Worst Refugee Crisis Since WW II” (Alfred).…

Migration to the United States is a very impacting and powerful movement. A lot of people believe that immigrants only come from Central America when it is more than that. People from the Phillipines, China, India, and many more countries for the same reasons. Not a lot know what people go through when coming to the United States because they do not ever have to go through it. A lot of people have no idea about migration and what people go through while traveling on land. There are many reasons…

discuss about borders and their functions. Anzaldia claims that borders are meant to separate the safe from the unsafe and ‘us – non-whites’ from ‘them - whites’. However, she argues that borderland – area near a border – is not as fixed as borders. Silko also states that: “…. borders haven’t worked, and they won’t work, not now, as indigenous people of the Americas reassert their kinship and solidarity with one another. A mass migration is already under way….” (122), hence implying that borders…

- Mexico border has become under scrutiny, then Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump announcement that he was going to build a wall along the southern boundary of Mexico and the U.S. to protect Americans from "Some bad Hombres"(Cummings). It's no secret that the Mexican drug cartels are conducting drug and human trafficking into the U.S. via tunnels from one border town into another and in some instances has been known to attempt to bring these items and persons though US Border Patrol…

most pressing ones are the percolation of drugs into our country, Salafist terrorism, and the other superpowers. One of the greatest threats facing America today is the constant percolation of drugs into our country. The DHS and the CBP (Customs and Border Protection agency) do a fantastic job of protecting us from a large share of illicit trade between the US and other countries, but more needs to be done. More specifically we, as a nation, need to step up and deal with the underlying problem…

him. He had already given his speech at an African-American graduation, but they were social outcasts just like him, so their opinions meant nothing. Eventually he is able to give his speech, but he realizes no one there truly cares about him, and states “I am nobody but myself and I am an invisible man!” (Ellison 9). He realizes that, because he has different color skin than these men, he will always be an outcast to them. Race plays a big role in being rejected for looking different, but when…

Drug smuggling into the United States has been a problem that has plagued our nation for generations. There are so many new innovative ways used by smugglers to transport drugs it makes it near impossible to put a stop to. Whether it’s by land, sea, or air smugglers are still finding a way to slip past our Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines make up the majority of drugs being smuggled into the United States. Many new programs, strategies,…