Border checkpoint

“[T]erritory gained by the Mexican-American War threatened to destroy the balance.” In the senate this would mean one side would have more power than the other due to popular vote. Both the North and South were opposed to this idea resulting in the debate. Checkpoint (pg. 483): The Free-Soil Party was founded to unite both Democrats and Whigs to ban slavery in the territory gained from the Mexican-American War. In the process they chose a candidate for the election of 1848. Primary Source (pg.…

in our country, for example, if someone is an illegal immigrant and they have a child in America should that child be considered a citizen and should the parents be able to stay in the U.S. to take care of it. Another problem is should we intensify border patrol to keep illegal immigrants away. Also who should we allow to immigrate legally, should we let everyone or just certain people. In the problem of an illegal immigrant having a child in America, the child is not an American citizen it was…

People of West Berlin were able to go to East berlin through checkpoints. The three original checkpoints were known as checkpoint alpha, checkpoint bravo, and checkpoint Charlie. There were 12 checkpoints that were built. At each of the three checkpoints, east german soldiers would screen diplomats and the few travelers that were rarely allowed to cross the border. Once in east Germany, you could not return to the west. The thought of being stuck in east Berlin…

Americans think of the United States southern border they believe its rife with illegal activities primary done by illegal immigrants. In reality most illegal crimes such as drug smuggling are being committed by United State citizens. This information that Americans were mainly transporting drugs over the border was widely unknown to the public particularly when authorities mainstream foreign suspects especially from Mexico. For this reason, it appears the border is not secure and gives a false…

Straddling the Fence, an American journalism from The New York Times named Thomas Friedman speaks with Palestinian suicide bombers to get their perspective. One of the men shares his experiences at Israeli checkpoints, saying “When a soldier asks me to take my clothes off in front of girls (at a checkpoint), it’s a great humiliation to me” (Straddling the Fence). A two state solution would allow for two separate governments, and issues of discrimination towards a country’s own people would be…

mutual trust and shared understanding. This is completely pragmatic, suitable, and acceptable in the Army of the U.S., where a field grade officer is able to adhere with the philosophy of mission command, but it is not pragmatic in the Kyrgyzstan’s Border…

note is the Bedouin smuggling activities along the Sinai border with Egypt. Though their movement in Israel is restricted by checkpoints and ID card checks are regular the smuggling business across the Sinai border is extensive. This is because of many factors, the biggest being Bedouin culture. Historically the Bedouin have never respected state borders, they did not believe the borders applied to them. Since the early 1900s, when the borders of states in the region drastically changed, the…

Border Patrol Every single day, the United States Border Patrol has to constantly keep an eye out for the smuggling of drugs, terrorists, and weapons at our Nations perimeter. Since violence has been known to travel alongside these things, agents have been working around the clock to keep American citizen’s safe. Before you can truly understand the efforts of the Border Patrol, you must understand the history, mission, effectiveness of patrol, and daily role of the agents. History Border…

The end of World War II ushered in an era of new fears. American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet Union was to contain them and not allow for expansion of their physical state or ideology. It was President Truman’s that declared in 1947 that it was the United States responsibility to support a body of people attempting to resist suppression. The strategy would be considered containment. An arms race of nuclear force shortly followed. America developed atomic weapons that…

Two Guatemalan kids try to cross the American border. Will they be able to make it despite all the obstacles? The book is called the Only Road and the author is Alexandra Diaz. Mrs. Diaz is the daughter of an immigrant who came from Cuba in 1960. The publisher of the book is Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book is about a girl and a boy. Angela and Jaime, whose cousin gets killed by a gang. Their family fears they both will be next, so their family raises enough money to get…