Mexican-American Border Problems

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The world has many problems and not enough patience and time to solve them all, so the “smaller” problems tend to be pushed aside. The problem with this is that those smaller problems can grow into much bigger problems if they are not addressed. The violence that is happening at the Mexican-American border is one of those problems that will just continue to grow if not addressed properly. Frey (2013) states that “Fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents were once a rarity… Even more rare were incidents of Border Patrol agents shooting Mexicans on their own side of the border” ( p. 28). Now, “[o]f the nineteen cases we have uncovered over the past two years in which people died at the hands of Border Patrol agents- six (were) on Mexican soil”

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