Why Is Border Control Failure?

Since there is substantial evidence to prove that border control has failed, three interpretations arose arguing specific reasons for why border control failed. The reason for why border control failed that is most plausible is Massey’s, which states that politicians and the media portray immigration as a bigger problem than it is, and that politicians do not fully understand the problem of immigration. This can be seen because through all of the laws, immigration reforms, and mostly the increase in border control, it has seized to limit the number of immigrants.
The increase in border patrol failed because politicians believed that raising the border patrols budget exponentially would stop all immigrants from coming to the U.S. Not surprisingly, this failed for many of reasons. In a
Most immigrants would come to the U.S. to work and then return home and would repeat that cycle a various amount of times. However, with an increase in border patrol, immigrants were too scared to return home and decided to stay in the U.S. Thus, an increase in border patrol actually increased the number of immigrants who were residing in the U.S. If politicians paid attention to articles by sociologists, they would know that an increase in border patrol was a bad decision. A study also done in Massey’s article predicted that if the U.S. kept the border patrol budget from 1986(?) instead of increasing it, there would be less total immigrants in the U.S. today. Even though the border control resulted in more apprehensions and deaths at the border, the overall success rate of undocumented immigrants was nearly 100%. This is because the immigrants who were apprehended would be sent back to Mexico, where they would just try again. Overall, the increased border patrol due to politicians not being fully knowledgeable of the problem was the reason why border patrol