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Yes the most current immigration policy is treated as a national security issue

since Trump has become President. He has even attempted building a wall to keep

people from crossing into the United States through Mexico. His attempts were to

decrease immigration and drug trafficking (which is a huge national security concern),

but the efforts he has made have no decreased immigration at all. It has actually

triggered several thousand people to flock to the US through the Mexican border and

Trump has been making threats to capture or shoot immigrants and this does not slow

them down at all. Immigration is at an all-time high and continues to rise since Obama

took office as the President.

Immigration was not really treated as a national security issue before 9/11

because the airports were not as strict, border patrol was not as strict, and people were

not really alert to situations before the 9/11 attacks happened. This was like a wakeup

call for the United States and most things changed after this happened. Now the

airports are stricter than ever, baggage is checked more often, and suspected people

are watched better than they ever were before. Before the 9/11 attacks it was very easy

for drug lords to smuggle large amounts of drugs in to the US by flying, but that is

almost impossible to get away with since all bags are checked so well after the 9/11

attacks. Before the 0/11 attacks immigration was simply treated as a pop on the hand

and the person was deported, but in most recent times the main objective is to “detect

and prevent the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and illegal aliens into

the country” (Haddal, 2010). Even before the 9/11 event the northern border was open

to the northern country Canada and has since been closed to everyone. There simply

not enough men to combat immigration from the north and has since changed to make

sure that all borders have enough manpower to combat immigration from any country.

The old style ways of border patrol, as pertains to the fourth amendment, used to

“require that a search or seizure conducted by a governmental agent be reasonable and

supported by probable cause” (Yule, 2009), but now these terms have been updated by

the Supreme Court and require government officials and law enforcement to obtain a

search warrant to legally search anyone who is traveling from another country into the

United States. This was set in place also to protect people traveling to the US and keep

from doing excessive searches on innocent people.

References

Haddal, Chad. (2010). Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Yule, Kim. (2009). Protecting the U.S. Perimeter: Border Searches Under

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