For the Border patrol there is three types of structures that they need. This requires of technology, infrastructure and personnel. Without technology the border patrol would be lost because they depend on their gadgets to get to the immigrants that are trying to cross the border. They have remote surveillance systems that have thermal nighttime camera that has night vision but can also detect the warmth of bodies. On the other hand they also have a color day camera that allows them to see very clearly and move whichever camera they need in order to stop the immigrant’s crossing over. Without these three components the border patrol would not have the same surveillance and protection that they have to offer. Mobile surveillance systems are used in order to see a larger view and a bigger size of wherever they need to focus on. Technology goes all the way to having unattended ground sensors that are planted on the floor and alarms the border patrol when there is someone near on their sensors. One of their biggest accomplishments has been the E3/IDENT which allows the border patrol to send any kind of information to the FBI and figure out if the immigrants that are caught are not federal criminals that need to be arrested.
The border has changed over the last 60 years, but that has not stopped immigrants from trying to cross over. The border patrol has gotten smarter but so have immigrants. Immigrants have figured ways around all of the technology that the border patrol has achieved. What pushes them to keep trying? Hope.
Immigrants have hope that one day they will be able to live in a better place, live a better life, have things they never expected to have, be able to give their kids an education that they never had.
I myself am an immigrant. I was born in Mexico D.F. on May 3rd 1995. My parents had hope for me and wanted a better life and education for me. 4 years after I was born they finally raised enough money to get us across the border. I remember having to go with two ladies I had never met before and sit in their truck quietly the whole ride from Tijuana through the San Ysidro border in San Diego. Growing up I was always scared to say that I was born in Mexico because of the fear that I might get deported so I always tried harder than everyone at school, I learned to speak fluent English, I learned the American Culture. Today I am a student at San Diego State University with a work permit. I have so much to thank my parents for not letting go of that hope that every immigrant has.
As shown in this video, "Crossing the Desert" one man talks about his kids been his determination for him to get to the other side and give them everything that he possibly can. This man does not make it alive but that is the sad reality of immigrants that are willing to risk their lives to get across the border.
The border has changed over the last 60 years, but that has not stopped immigrants from trying to cross over. The border patrol has gotten smarter but so have immigrants. Immigrants have figured ways around all of the technology that the border patrol has achieved. What pushes them to keep trying? Hope.
Immigrants have hope that one day they will be able to live in a better place, live a better life, have things they never expected to have, be able to give their kids an education that they never had.
I myself am an immigrant. I was born in Mexico D.F. on May 3rd 1995. My parents had hope for me and wanted a better life and education for me. 4 years after I was born they finally raised enough money to get us across the border. I remember having to go with two ladies I had never met before and sit in their truck quietly the whole ride from Tijuana through the San Ysidro border in San Diego. Growing up I was always scared to say that I was born in Mexico because of the fear that I might get deported so I always tried harder than everyone at school, I learned to speak fluent English, I learned the American Culture. Today I am a student at San Diego State University with a work permit. I have so much to thank my parents for not letting go of that hope that every immigrant has.
As shown in this video, "Crossing the Desert" one man talks about his kids been his determination for him to get to the other side and give them everything that he possibly can. This man does not make it alive but that is the sad reality of immigrants that are willing to risk their lives to get across the border.
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Alberto, Luis."The devil's highway: a true story New York. Little, Brown 2004
"Border Patrol History." U.S Customs and Border Protection. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2014.
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. Migra! : A History of the U.S Border Patrol. Berkeley, CA, USA: Univeristy of
California Press, 2010. Proquestebray. Web. 17 December 2014.
McIntyre, Erin S. "Death in the Desert: The dangerous trek between Mexico and Arizona." Aljazeera
America 13 Mar. 2014. Print.
Perry, Tony, and Richard Marosi. "A water-providing marvel — and a 'death trap." 26 Nov. 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2014.
Rosas, Ana E. Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the U.S-Mexico Border.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Print.
"The Desperate Risk Death in a Desert." The New York Times 31 Oct. 2000. Print.