Border War Documentary

Today in class we viewed a documentary titled "Border War."  This documentary focused on the topic of illegal immigration and more specifically on the views of people that are affected by this topic everyday.  The first person shown in the movie is a man that is a part of an immediate strike team.  This team is an attack force that takes actions first and asks questions later.  Their main goal is to detain illegal immigrants crossing the border alongside what they call a coyote, or the person assisting them cross. Later in the documentary the same man is in pursuit of an illegal immigrant with a fellow worker when the person they were chasing hit one of the officers.  This just shows how far some people will go to come into and stay in this country.  In another example of how a life was affected by an illegal immigrant a women describes how her husband had been shot and killed by an illegal immigrant.  He was pulled over in a simple traffic stop and the immigrant shot him once then shot him in the head to kill him.  This just shows how ruthless some people can be when they want something too much.  The third person shown is a women who had grown up in a house that had housed many illegal immigrants right after they had crossed the border.  She had been traumatized by these men that had come to her house and was even raped.  She had her second child at the young age of 15.  She had seen what these people are capable of what their intentions in the U.S. are and decided to speak out.  She ended up joining the minuteman project.  Then the last person shown in the documentary was a politician who believed in stopping all illegal immigration.  He was a person who kind of summed up the feelings of all of the others shown.  So far in the documentary I have learned many things I didn't know before.  Such as the lengths that some of these people will go to get into the U.S. and to stay here as well.  It has been quite a shock to me so far and I am looking forward to seeing and discussing the rest of the documentary "Border War."