The duty of the American government is to provide for the general welfare of its citizens, and considering the amount of drugs and unidentified undocumented immigrants that seep into this country, there should be more done to protect the American people from the threat of drug abuse and the possibility of a criminal activity of immigrants. However, this does not mean to militarize the border and install an impenetrable wall. Although border militarization has been a sought out policy in recent years, it has not done enough for the resources it has consumed. Douglas Massey and Karen Pren, with the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton University, found that the fivefold increase in border patrol agents and twentyfold increase in funding to
