New Mexico’s Border Issues

Illegal in-migration refers to the immigration of people across matter border without visa or valid documents. The illegal immigration show rise to a vauntinglyr set of social issues in areas, such(prenominal) as economy, social welfare, education and health, smuggling and crime. The international border amid United States and Mexico runs for about 3,141 km which is frequently crossed over by countless illegal immigrants from Mexico. The reason for these illegal crossings is the difference in animation standards and wages in US and Mexico. correct though there large group of border patrol personnels guarding the border, alien immigrants domiciliate still sneak in through various locations due to miss of funds and consistent patrol in the area..According to an estimate over a million people who cross over to US, 45 share break up in becoming agricultural labors in various US states. The economic and social costs of illegal immigration are enormous. It is estimated that abou t 10,000 illegal aliens cross into US every day with annual build reaching to of 3 million. A third of these immigrants are caught and re glowering to their home verdant while half of them become US residents permanently. About 9 to 11 millions illegal immigrants reside in US at present.Due to the espousal of low wages by illegal immigrants in New Mexico and some other states, about1.8 million native workers suffer loosing not only their wages, but excessively ruminates raising the cost of state welfare to US$ 15 one thousand million annually. According to the National Academy of Sciences it costs $89000 to pay for an alien immigrants during his animation stay in US.However its not only the loss of job or revenue, but 80 percent of cocaine and 50 percent of heroin in US is smuggled through new Mexico borders by these illegal immigrants. The illegal immigrants cost billions of dollars every year to the Ameri corporation taxpayers peculiarly the free treatment offered to ille gal aliens. Due to which more hospitals New Mexico, azimuth and California has been closed down. The total economic cost of illegal immigrants is estimated to in between 67$ to $87 billion.Since 1986 US has embarked efforts to restrict illegal immigration with the arrival of Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which expanded the reinforcement for the US border patrol. Between 1986 and 1996, Congress and President took a series of restrictive actions to regain the control of US and Mexico border. However despite these measure out and IRCA act, both legal and illegal immigration continued to rise. The federal establishment in 1993 initiated another plan to install more officers at the border. These plans drive fundamental weakness due to less defended border at many areas. For example when mobilization of forces was activated in El Paso and San Diego, the flow of migrants turned to Arizona and Texas creating new problems in these states.The push by US politics pushed th e immigrants to cross over from more remote deserts and mountains and rivers where its much more hard for border patrol to capture them. Another loss has been the higher(prenominal) rate of injury and death that also accelerated the cost of consumption on already poor counties in New Mexico and border states.Even though the bank guard budget has been increased 10 multiplication between 1986 and 2002, but the arrival of immigrants has also risen. In 2005, New Mexico stated taking into custody due to the rise in drug smuggling, kidnapping and finish up in the state. The State governor criticized the federal government and Congress by mentioning total lack of support from the Border Patrol. In recent eld the illegal immigrant issue has become a national debate with politicians on both sides favoring and disfavoring the issue due to their own vested interests.There confuse been suggestions to build fence, border, and deployment of more Border Patrol agents to overcompensate th e cross border issue. In reality the problem is much bigger than it seems. Constructing a few miles wall or fence will not bring any change, unless possible approach is taken to tackle the issue. Even after the constructions of fence in San Diego the flow of immigrants increased as fence provides an excuse for Border Patrol to be less carefulAnalyst believe that US polices cook failed to produce any result. A new approach is needed to address the issue. The solution to the problem lies in the undocumented migration, which if made legal can prove more productive. Under the current immigration law, all countries have same quota of 20,000 thousand legal immigrants per year which is same for the Mexico, the closest US neighbor. A more realistic policy would be to provide temp visas, (which President Bush has recently announced), however greater emphasis should be paid to the Mexicans as Mexico is the major part of the problem.ReferenceCNN, (August 13, 2005). Border emergency declared in New Mexico. Retrieved February 8, 2007, Web site http//www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/newmexico/2. Economic Cost of Illegal migration. Retrieved February 8, 2007, Web site http//www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html3. Douglas S. Massey, Beyond the Border Buildup. Retrieved February 8, 2007, Web site www.ailf.org4. Fencing in Failure. Retrieved February 8, 2007, Web site http//www.ailf.org/ipc5. the States Org, Illegal immigration a real issue. Retrieved February 8, 2007, Web site http//www.americas.org/