Mexican Border Security Essay

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US-MEXICO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: SHIFTING POLICY FROM BARACK OBAMA TO DONALD TRUMP (2012-2017): CASE OF IMMIGRANT AND BORDER

INTRODUCTION
Border control, also known as the border security, is extremely important in controlling and examining all those who enter or leave a country, especially in today era, in a world so plagued with terrorist threats and criminal acts. Border security means and regulations allow a country to monitor all people, animals and goods or even a single thing that travel across its borders.
The U.S. and Mexican border is a line drawn on a map and along with many other borders all around the world (Walker, 2011). That line can signify a difference on each side which can be a difference as from black to white. Within …show more content…

and Mexico. The main problem is basically there are so many people that across the border to enter U.S with the legal documents, but many of them are undiscovered for many years, which called “overstayed”.
In Obama’s presidency, He comes to Mexico supported by an increased personal popularity among U.S. Latinos and Mexicans, largely because of his deepened commitment to reform U.S. immigration policy, but also due to his more assertive stance on behalf of the poor and middle class (Barry, n.d.). The improved although faltering prospects for immigration reform will not be well served if Obama continues to use the support for immigration reform as a political crutch. Obama has a motto that said “Preserve the integrity of our borders to reduce illegal immigration.”
Obama’s first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program has the potential to shield about 1.7 million illegal immigrants from deportation although substantially fewer have applied for that protection (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, n.d.). His program believed has the potential to shield many more although the courts have held up its implementation due to serious Constitutional …show more content…

Obama’s presidency also supports to build the fencing in the border of United States and Mexico. He believes “fencing should be built where necessary and agreed to in coordination with local governments, Indian tribes and done in an environmentally sensitive manner”, Obama said. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure, and technology on the border and at ports of entry but with the decision of both countries. Alongside with Obama, the new elected president, Donald Trump also put much concern on the border security and immigration. In early of his leadership, he announced to make a big wall to separated United State and Mexico. But he make more controversial thing about it by announced that, for building the wall, the government of Mexico have to pay all the cost. It’s unclear how much both of these directives will cost, though a DHS internal report estimated the wall alone will cost $21.6 billion (Common Dreams, 2017).
Trump’s regulations basically do not have much different with previous presidency’s regulations, except he wanted to do and finish it faster. This regulation that Trump has made, became the things that hold or freeze the diplomatic relations between this two

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