Borders With No Boundaries

The US/Mexico border has been the hot topic as of recent especially with certain presidential candidates that expressed their concerns on "illegal" immigrants. There is always this notion from conservative individuals that think that strengthening the borders would actually be a solution to stop Mexican immigrants from coming in and "taking" American jobs (so they say); Unfortunately, majority of these "immigrant shamers" tend to not understand what is going on behind the scenes. The drug cartels in Mexico has been an issue the United States has been keeping a close eye on for quite sometime. Knowing and seeing how profitable the drug trade was and the United States wanted to put themselves in the position to make some revenue by affiliating themselves with border patrol.

Even though the US is not active in the drug distribution process they do control who is allowed to enter and who is not. These practices that the United States partake in make it quite impossible for people to understand how much control that America has on the mobility of the Mexican community. In Latino Threat, it discusses how the the Immigration Act of 1990 explicitly disclosed the amount of actual "legal" immigrants are allowed to migrate freely into the US. Along with the Immigration Act, Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act made the legalizing process more tedious and difficult to meet the proper requirements. Ironically, the US is able to extend their boundaries outside of their jurisdictions along the border to meet their benefit, but constrict Mexico to stay within their own (Contradictory much? I think so.).

Sicario, was a great example of how border control isn't what the average person think it is. It is so much more than just controlling people from coming and going; the film based the story on the Drug War in Mexico and how the United States can implicitly bend the rules in order to gain control. The playing by the book" ideology goes out of the window when it comes to getting US's end of the deal; all regulations become null and void. This just goes to show you that America is on the constant pursuit of control and getting in where they fit in. So to sum everything in a nutshell, borders aren't so bounded after all, now are they?