INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United States Border Patrol, Unaccompanied Minors, Sexual Slavery
19 Jan 2017
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Net migration flows: people and their labor. 3% of the world is on the move. 640 million would like to migrate permanently. 1 million receive legal permanent resident status in us annually for 23% us is the preferred destination. Supply + demand + social networks = size of an international migration. Government seeks to influence both the characteristics or numbers of arrivals. National security vs. migrants" rights: central policy challenge of us. Data sharing on unauthorized migrants between branches of government. Us spends more money on border enforcement than any other agency. Us detains more people than it has in all federal prisons combined. Fewer opportunities to migrate legally, people are desperate and migrate anyways. Sometimes they can only cross with crazy risks: coffin load people lay down in the engine compartment of a car just to cross the border, people will do anything to cross that border. Now they have x-rays to see through trucks.
