Border Patrol

I thought that this article was a very good read. It made me think about immigration in our society today and what's being done to control it. I didn't really realize the extremities of what is being done until reading this article. Silko's predicament is a pretty unreasonable one. The border patrolmen took it a bit too far with the whole situation. Their treatment was unfair and unjust. The border patrolmen take their authority a bit too far and it's scary to think that they could just kill you or attack you in an instant, like in the case of Michael Elmer that Silko mentioned. A lot of the things border patrolmen have done are horrible and they seem to be extremely racist. Although this was being done to help problems with border crossing and immigration, the border patrolmen took it too far. I also agree with what Silko had to say about how there is no use and borders haven't worked. At this point in time, I don't think borders will work. Sure border patrolmen could help with immigration problem but I feel that they are too vicious to deal with and I don't think a 10 foot high steel wall will help anything either. Immigrants will always find a way to get across.