Evrin Peavy
10-25-09
Humanities
One illegal immigrant dies each day crossing the border. The Mexican government is to blame for the deaths of their people. The government needs to control what happens inside their country, such as the problems they have with drugs and gangs. When crossing the border the immigrants have a lot of challenges they go through. The Mexican government is accountable for their citizens needs.
Increasingly, illegal immigrants have tried to cross the border. Immigrants cross illegally because it is so hard to get a green card and to cross the border. Some immigrants cross through the desert to get to the U.S, but they never make it. 265,000 aliens have been arrested for attempts of crossing the border. As stated before one immigrant dies a day from crossing the border. The immigrants die in the desert from dehydration and exhaustion. Some immigrants die from trusting a smuggler or in other words trusting “coyotes”. Most aliens save a lot of money and trust the smugglers to get them across safely but most of the time the immigrants do not make it across.
If the Mexican government had control of their problems in Mexico then their people would not want to move to the U.S. The big problem in Mexico right now is the drug war; the Mexican people are so scared and feel threaten, so they are crossing the borders illegally so they can get away from the troubles in their own country. 11500 people have died from the drug war in Mexico. If the government would create harsher laws against drugs and gangs people would not try to cross over.
The immigrants want to come over to the U.S because they think the U.S will be a good start for them, and they think they will have the “ American Dream”. Immigrants think that they will be able to get good jobs, and make a better living. When they make it over to the U.S they do get jobs, but they get the jobs that the typical American would not want to do, such as farming and harvesting fruits and vegetables. A good amount of deaths of the immigrants are from the parasites on the food they pick.
If 53% percent of your citizens are in poverty and a good amount of the other half of your citizens are crossing over to the U.S there must be something wrong with how you are running your country. The Mexican government needs to take the blame for all the problems in their country. They need to start making harsher laws so the citizen will feel apart of their own country, and feel safe in their country. So many citizens of Mexico try to cross, and don’t make it. Illegal crossing is now one of the highest rates of deaths in the world.
