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Immigration and the security of the US Southern Border is an issue that affects every US resident. The United States shares 7,000 miles of land border with Mexico and Canada, not including rivers and other bodies of water (FY2018 Border Security Metrics Report, 2019). There were an estimated 404,142 apprehensions of people trying to cross the American border illegally in 2018 alone. Immigrants and new births from immigrants added more than 22 million people to the population in the last decade, this is equal to 80 percent of the population’s overall growth (Camarota, 2012). Border patrol continues to struggle to keep up with the traffic at the U.S. border and even past the issue of border traffic there is the question of what to do with people that are attempting to cross the border illegally. The economic burden of staffing boarder security agents and housing immigrants crossing the boarder is draining the countries resources causing one of the deepest political divides this country has every seen. It is the government’s responsibility to streamline the immigration process in ways that protect our nation’s economy and the rights of all current and future citizens.

References:

Camarota, S. A. (2012, August 8). Immigrants in the United States, 2010. Retrieved from https://cis.org/Immigrants-United-States-2010

FY2018 Border Security Metrics Report. (2019, May 03). Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/publication/fy2018-border-security-metrics-report?topic=border-security