The anti website that
I have found is simply called “US Border Force,” a group open for members to
join, that contests issues with immigration into the USA. The website contains
its own mission statement in which they explain their desire for tighter restrictions
on who can get in the country. Terrorism, crime, welfare fraud and a burden on
health care are cited as factors in which America struggles to host as many as
“4 to 10 thousand immigrants entering the country everyday.”
The group aims to make
their views heard in Congress by polling, petitioning and lobbying, mainly on
the Internet, but also on a grass roots level. There is even a newsletter that
can be read and downloaded on the webpage, however after checking the date to
be Summer 2011, it is hard to imagine its popularity. The group is clearly well
known to some politicians, with those who have particularly strong views on the
subject such as Ron Paul having quotes on the page for visitors to look at.
The website is
convincing in the sense it is clearly a high functioning group that post
regular updates and blogs to keep their opinions strong and present in their
follower’s minds; however when looking at some posts, the views they express
can come across as overly dramatic and exaggerated such as a picture of
headstone signifying the death of America.
The website that is
more positive about the border patrol is the page people can go on to apply for
a job as a patrol agent. As a way of recruiting more members, the website is
clearly quick to show the successful work that goes on, with a success story
about a woman who stopped a family of illegal immigrants getting into America
on the homepage. They show the people who work there to be welcoming to those
who enter legally and able to stop those who try to get in illegally, as a way
of preventing terrorism. As I
would have expected, the webpage is unsurprisingly patriotic in its claims of
protecting America, but unlike the website above, it is quick to compliment the
work that the Border Patrol Agents do.
Customs and border
force has been running for over 10 years now and is responsible for patrolling
7,000 miles of land between the USA and Canada, and more importantly Mexico.
The process of working for the border force requires fitness and drug testing
and a long series of interviews.
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