Immigration control not working By Lorenzo Torrez Immigration into the United States has been of major concern to various government administrations for many decades. These concerns are based on theories that immigrants take away jobs from American workers or that immigrants come here to take advantage of social benefits provided to American workers in need of governmental assistance.
All impartial studies conducted over the years fail to prove such allegations.
Nonetheless, the negative allegations provide fuel for all kinds of right-wing elements within the U.S. Congress and, in particular, legislators of states bordering Mexico. Right-wing legislators keep repeating the lies on the assumption that if you say it often enough, the lies will be accepted as fact. Over the last decade, Ex-Gov. Students of immigration keep calling attention to the great difference in attitude and policy between the border with Mexico and that of the Canadian border. U.S. border patrols all along bordering states, Marine units, electronic devices, airplanes, camera, etc.