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    Immigration policy and foreign policy are in many ways interlinked, as they are often used to meet goals in one another’s policy areas. Together, they are used to enhance the safety of our citizens, making this topic particularly important. Immigration is specifically linked to our foreign policy efforts with underdeveloped countries (Keely 1978). To fully understand one policy area, you must understand aspects of the other. Thus, one should consider these relationships when analyzing and evaluating

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    Borders and Coastal waterways are a vital part of life in numerous countries, and nations around the world. Protecting borders and ports is a responsibility tasked to various agencies throughout the United States government, Private Sector, as well as nations around the world. Therefore, there are countless challenges and obstacles that need to be properly addressed in dealing with this multi faceted topic. Describe the challenges faced by US Customs and Border Protection agents attempting to

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    Politics 1(4): 175-191. This article provides multiple meanings of borders, its functions and also why it exists. Such information is beneficial for my research since it helps to give basic information about what border is. Questing how problematics borders are, this article will give a wider picture on the issues surround the borders whether they are fixed entities or fluid ones for example. Alvarez, Julia. 2004. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury The story of a political

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    America’s Border Control is a security system that protects America’s borders and makes sure that no terrorist or illegal immigrants enter America without a green card. The border control has been paid billions and maybe trillions of dollars to protect our borders. America’s border control needs to be lowered, it’s not just Mexicans are entering America illegally the statistics of immigration from 2013 are -Mexicans 14% -Chinese 7.2% -Indians 6.9% -Philippines 5.5% -Dominican Republic 4.2% The

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    The Unlawful border crossing in the U.S. Southern border has been of political interest for the past decades. It has been the primary source of the illegal trades into U.S. from Mexico. Despite the government efforts to end the act, there have not been long-term solutions to the Menace. The vital approach is to understand the structural nature of the border and the socio-cultural nature of the inhabitants that facilitates the illegal act across the border. The lawful bill in place seems not to offer

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    Introduction Border Control has been a somewhat delicate issue since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, where countries such as the US have been infamous for introducing more harsher airplane and airport security, which marked the start of a new wave of security measures, fear and a whole new war on terror, many suggest that closing or tightening borders is a sign of weakness of the power of the state (Mary Bosworth, 2008) but in recent times, it has been a subject that has had heated

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    America’s Border Control is a security system that protects America’s borders and makes sure that no terrorist or illegal immigrants enter America without a green card. The border control has been paid billions and maybe trillions of dollars to protect our borders. America’s border control needs to be lowered, it’s not just Mexicans are entering America illegally the statistics of immigration from 2013 are -Mexicans 14% -Chinese 7.2% -Indians 6.9% -Philippines 5.5% -Dominican Republic 4.2% The

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    I choose to analyze and deconstruct the article “Immigration and Border Control” by Edward Alden. This article describes the scope of border protection and immigration control in general but with particular emphasis on Mexico and the Border states. The author when through and described the history of border protection. He stating how much the border police agencies have increased in size over the past 20 years and how much technology and effort we put forth to deter and avoid illegal immigration

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    Literature, a variety of borders are often used to serve different purposes but mainly to advance the plot through border crossings. The purpose of this essay is to consider the extent to which the authors of The Second Branch of the Mabinogi and Sir Orfeo use borders and border crossings to advance the text through a consideration of geographical, political and spiritual borders. The Second Branch of the Mabinogi relies mostly on the constant and unresolvable political border throughout the whole text

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    Speaking of Texas-U.S. Southwest/Mexican border, the first thing appears in many people’s mind is a horizontal line with US on the upper side and Mexico on the lower, as depicted in maps. However, in reality, a border serves more than just to separate states. In many occasions, it witnesses and bridges social networks that stretch across border. These two functions seem to contradict each other but in fact they exactly reflect the complex nature of borders, or, more realistically, borderlands, a term

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