Introduction

President Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaigns used the topic of building the huge wall at the U.S Mexican border, and people would applaud his decision so much. The border has been subject to the increasing number of illegal immigrant’s entry into the United States. Another proposal apart from the wall is that of using technology as a way of regulating those who enter and exit America through the borderline. America is one of the most advanced countries technologically, and this method has also been significantly welcomed by a section of the people. It has not yet been decided which is the appropriate method to curb the movements because both measures have gotten equal supporters amongst the Americans(Slack et al. 2016).

Literature review

Several studies have been conducted to try and find out the solution to the never-ending issue of illegal migration through the American-Mexican border. According to Peters et al., (2018), he was able to discover that most of the illegal entries take place at the point of entry and not at the rest of the borderline. This information he gathered through some interviews with some of the people who had been caught and charged with illegal entry through the borderline. Another research was conducted by Orrenius, & Coronado, (2017). To try and find out what happens after people are caught sneaking in or outside the country through the borders. Some of the answers he got were that many of them would be deported back to where they came from through the department of immigration and that of foreign affairs. According to Slack, Martínez, &Peiffer, (2015), he found out that there were no definite ways in which the illegal entries through the border would be stopped between the building of a wall or by the use of technology. This is because according to his analysis each of these solutions had some challenges both in their execution and implementation.

Best approach to stop illegal immigration

According to research and analysis of recent events and government statistics, the government should use both the approaches to stop illegal immigration. One of the reasons for this is that after going through some previous documentation on this topic, much of them revealed that there is no single method among the two that is sustainable and can be depended on for the long run. To begin with the wall, it has the capabilities of stopping people from entering through them, but statistics say that most of them use the point of entry(Orrenius, & Coronado, 2017). On the other hand, the use of technology may seem like the best idea, but the surveillance might be manipulated because those mandated to protect the borderline are the same people who are responsible for smuggling in people illegally.

However, with some stiff laws and the adoption of the two approaches the numbers of illegal entries would decrease gradually. This is because the wall would prevent those using the borderline and the technology would survey and see every entry and exit and the two would perfectly match. One would act as a backup for the other, and the chances of these approaches becoming a success would be high. On top of that, there also need some laws to be put in place for those caught entering the country illegally(Peters et al., 2018). The approaches only try to stop but do not punish those who succeed hence the need for some laws.

Counterargument

Some researcher and critics also have their side of the story where they disagree with the implementation of the approaches. Not many countries in the world have walls in their border lines, but they still succeed in regulating the vice of illegal immigrants. They argue that America should adopt a democratized approach rather than the dictatorial approaches which include the construction of the wall and the deployment of technology along the borderlines. The more America becomes dictatorial, the more enemies it will create, and this is genuinely not how the business should be conducted.

Others like Slack et al.,(2016), argued that the construction of a wall and the putting up of technological facilities would not be enough to stop the illegalities. Instead, he proposed that this was to be accompanied by some stiff and rigid laws and punishments that would befall those caught as culprits. Examples of these laws would include those of deportation with hard fines hit on them, a jail term in collaboration with the international laws and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the cancellation of their travel visas among others. This would reduce these cases, and the government would divert its attention to other matters of national importance.

Conclusions

Since the eras of President Ronald Reagan and the rest, the topic of the entry of illegal immigrants through the American borders has always been an issue. Most of these entries have been recorded on the border of America and Mexico recently. President Donald Trump revived the idea of building a wall on the border to stop them and received some fair share of supporters. Another approach that has been proposed by different researchers is that of the use of technology which America can in a flash do. However, the debates of which is the appropriate approach to take have been there and do not seem like ending. Lastly, the incorporation of the two approaches to work side by side would be a recommendable idea and would also work towards the end of the dilemma on which is the most appropriate one.

References

Orrenius, P. M., & Coronado, R. (2017). The effect of illegal immigration and border enforcement on crime rates along the US-Mexico border.

Slack, J., Martinez, D. E., Lee, A. E., &Whiteford, S. (2016). The geography of border militarization: Violence, death, and health in Mexico and the United States. Journal of         Latin American Geography, 15(1), 7-32.

Slack, J., Martínez, D. E., &Peiffer, E. (2015). In harm’s way: Family separation,   immigration enforcement programs and security on the US-Mexico border. Journal on            Migration and Human Security, 3(2), 109-128.

Peters, R., Ripple, W. J., Wolf, C., Moskwik, M., Carreón-Arroyo, G., Ceballos, G., …& List, R. (2018). Nature divided, scientists united: US–Mexico border wall threatens biodiversity    and binational conservation. BioScience, 68(10), 740-743.

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