Illegal Immigration on the Sourthern Boarder Damages Environment

The Heritage Foundation, here, points out the total damage to the human element that crosses our Southerner boarder illegally as well as the physical environment.


Immigration seems to have fallen off the radar lately but it still is a very serious national security issue that needs immediate attention.


The question that remains is, why, since the money has been appropriated, hasn't the fence been started? Who is responsible for delaying this important aspect of our national security?


It appears to me we have too many members of government concentrating on themselves rather than the general welfare of the country. Increasingly it appears to me that the entire United States government is not about the people anymore but about special interest.


Maybe it's time to have them replaced with those the care what happens to America.


Keep the faith because now you know the battle for America is joined!



Heritage on the border



Protecting the borders is a critical part of keeping the nation safe, as Heritage Foundation experts have often pointed out.
» Read all Heritage research on immigration and border security

But border security isn’t just a theoretical exercise: it has to be demonstrated to work. That’s why Heritage national security expert James Carafano recently traveled to the southwest to inspect the border security facilities there.

In Nogales, Arizona, Carafano discovered the importance of leveraging technology to bar entry to criminals like drug smugglers. “Looking for bad people by screening individual records is like looking for a needle in a needle stack,” he explains in a post on Heritage’s blog, The Foundry.


“The real value of collecting the data is looking for anomalies and patterns that allow border enforcement to focus on criminal smuggling gangs.”

These technologies also speed legitimate cross-border traffic, he continues. “Speeding legitimate trade and travel, while focusing border enforcement at the ports of entry on criminal activity, is what good security is all about.”

He also saw firsthand why it’s a good thing the government limited the number of documents that can be used as identification at ports of entry. Border patrol agents showed him “a table with hundreds of documents that in the past had been authorized as proof of U.S. citizenship or other documentation to enter the U.S. from Mexico—many of them were fraudulent documents at that.”

In another blog post, Carafano points out that border security can help protect the environment. Those crossing the borders illegally, he explains, often leave behind mountains of trash and trample the wildlife. But secured areas have seen an environmental rebirth, as in one area in the San Diego sector that’s now a bird sanctuary.

He also saw the human cost of illegal immigration. “Stamping out illegal border crossings is as much a humanitarian mission as anything else,” he writes. Unscrupulous smugglers can kidnap, rob, rape or kill their human cargo—or leave them for dead after plying them with drugs that dehydrate them.