Immigration is a hot topic in this country. For years there has been an issues with illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico to the United States. Our country has been attempting to control the problem, yet they never fully succeed. One attempt to control it is to place specific police within a certain area of the border to detain illegal immigrants. But with this, many innocent people have been accused and detained. An example of this is in Leslie Silko’s article where she discusses how the Border Patrol stopped her and a friend thinking they were illegal. My reaction to this article was anger. The Border Patrol harassed the two citizens even after showing Arizona driver’s licenses. It just shows how the immigration problem has now caused the police to be suspicious of everyone. This article brought the emotions to the surface about the border. I felt sympathy for Silko and her friend. I also felt sympathetic for the dog that was forced to find something wrong with the car, Silko and her friend. The poor dog was forced into the van to find contraband and then forced to sniff for any contraband on the people. When she did not find anything, the police seemed angry and were jerking the dog around, since she did not find anything illegal. I love dogs and I think this is cruel to treat a dog like this. This section of the article really got me angry and upset. The article was an upsetting article that any citizen could be treated like this, but the sad truth is that this happens everyday. The country needs to find a better way to control the immigration problem and stop hurting the free citizens of this country. In the Constitution we are all granted freedom and every citizen is entitled to their freedom. This is the sad truth of what happens everyday and something needs to be done to change this.
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