Border Patrols: Policing Immigration in America

President Donald Trump recently announced his plans to crackdown on
undocumented immigration. In his first address to Congress, the
president claimed: “We are removing gang members, drug dealers and
criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very
innocent citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak.”
Coupled with his second attempt at a travel ban from
Muslim-majority countries and his promise to build a border wall,
the president and his team are focusing the nation’s attention on
who gets in and who the government will kick out.
In the second episode of our two-part series on immigration, we
explore how the federal government monitors and polices the
undocumented. We’ll consider the origins of illegal immigration, as
well as how the government’s deportation powers have grown over
time.



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