Illegal Immigration

Justin Bjornson
Illegal immigration is one of the biggest issues in this year’s presidential election. Many people believe that the borders need to be tightened up and illegal immigrants should not be able to get into the country as easy as they are now. A recent article from USA Today talks about what the U.S. border control is doing about this immigration problem. The article talks about many ways the U.S. has beefed up the border control but the simplest upgrade is simply the fact of an increase in officers. There are now 17,000 officers nationwide compared to 12,000 two years ago. Along with the upgrade in border control officers there have been more purchases of boats to decrease the amount of illegal drugs being smuggled into the country. Last year alone there were only 10 boats caught for drug or human trafficking into the country. This year with two months left in the fiscal year 22 boats have been seized.I personally am extremely excited to hear that border control is finally stepping up and beginning to enforce immigration laws. While I believe that illegal immigrant are vital to the structure of our economy, I don't believe that any more illegal immigrants should just be allowed into the country.
There is nothing the government can do about the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants in the country already, but they can stop the over population and the ongoing problem of drug trafficking by illegal aliens. A main source of the countries drug problem is the smuggling of drugs by illegal aliens. In my opinion the the government should do about the immigration problem is simple, block the border with a fence or whatever will work. Keep increasing the number of border control officers there are and increase the number of boats are provided to the officers. The illegal aliens already in the country should all be given a back round check, the ones that have stayed out of jail and are productive the U.S. society should be given citizenship upon learning English and other skills. The illegal aliens that have been arrested should be deported and with the new blockade of the border the problem of illegal immigrants will disappear.