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Essay / Analysis of the film “Crossing The Line: Border Stories”
Several states allow undocumented aliens to use their resources for free, regardless of their lack of health insurance. This causes debt which in turn must be resolved through increased taxes. This forces people to make the decision to grant them citizenship or kick them out of the country altogether. Both of these options would be both costly and time and resource consuming. Thousands and thousands of dollars are spent every year patrolling and protecting the border, but these immigrants still manage to enter the country. If there was a more open or lenient border between the United States and Mexico and immigrants were granted citizenship, the country would end up saving incredible amounts of money. However, new problems would surface. Citizens who want to expel them from the country support their position on the assumption that if we allow immigrants to stay in the country, we may start losing jobs. This is due to a market flooded with uneducated and unskilled workers from foreign countries who are willing to work for lower pay as long as they can find a job. This perspective that illegal immigrants would take jobs was quickly corrected as being overly exaggerated by a liberally fed population. It is said in the film that even though these immigrants