"Immigration Must Be Restricted to Protect America Against Terrorists"

As I was reading this article I realized that many of the ideas that I have been thinking about are things that others things about as well. There are many loopholes for people who are trying to get into America. This is shown by the mass illegal immigration in America and this article tries to demonstrate that it can also relate to the terrorist attacks.I had never thought of this connection until I read this article and it proves that the connection is there. The author discusses how there are many neighborhoods like the one a few of the 9/11 terrorist lived in where there are so many immigrants that it is so easy for people to go unnoticed. The article says, "Patterson's mayor notes: "We have 72 identifiable nationalities here, 170,000 people in eight square miles. With a lot of different folks moving in and out of the city, unless you raise a ruckus, you could live here for a while without anyone noticing."'Due to all the chaos in the neighborhood, it is extremely hard to notice everyone who is living there. It really scares me that these people can live in America for so long and do such a horrible thing and the whole time no one knew that they were even there. At the beginning of the article it says that there needs to be tighter regulations, but to do that the government would need to spend more money. Money is not something they want to be spending more of, so I feel they need to do better with what they all ready have. Maybe they could start with better training courses for the people who are suppose to be looking out for these things. As I have been watching the news in recent weeks have seen more arrests of people planning terrorist attacks while living in America and this trend does not seem to be stopping. For a long time I was under the assumption things were in control. It has become very clear that in order for the United States to control the terrorist attacks, they have to start having tighter regulations of immigration.

The article says that the danger comes from within America, "Precisely because of mass immigration and open-borders policies, perhaps thousands of unnoticeable young men have been able to enter the United States (and Europe) to prepare jihad against their enemies. Short of expelling entire populations in a massive act of ethnic cleansing, there is virtually nothing the United States and the West can do about the new enemy within." There may not be much to do to prevent the terrorist from coming into America, however there are actions that need to be taken that can help to protect the citizens once they are here. In the end it will be very hard for immigration reforms to be enforced because many leaders and upper class see the immigration as a way for cheap labor. I think that people who see it that way need to be thinking about the protection of all Americans, not just making money.

I understand that the United States cannot just start "ethnic cleansing" people in America. Yet they need to do something. We cannot allow another 9/11 to occur and they only way to do that is to tighten the immigration regulations.


citation
Francis, Samuel. "Immigration Must Be Restricted to Protect America Against Terrorists." Opposing Viewpoints: National Security. Ed. Helen Cothran. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Deerfield High School. 7 Feb. 2010 .