Dying To Get In-Illegal Immigration Border Control

The film “Dying to Get In,” is a documentary by Brett Tolley that portrays a firsthand illustration of undocumented immigration along the U.S. and Mexican border. The documentaries span from a father attempting to cross the border with his five children to a mother trying to cross the border with her husband and five year old son. Their respective beliefs towards what they believe are the best ways to get across the border differ significantly; however, their goals are alike. They both strive to cross the border in order to not only make better lives for themselves, but also for their children and the rest of their families back home.
One of the documentaries illustrated a father’s quest to guide his five young children across the dangerous Sonoran Desert. The father explains how finding the right “Coyote” is the difference between life and death. A “Coyote” is a person who takes pay from desperate Mexican locals and helps try to smuggle them across the southern border. The very next documentary is about a mother that explains how her faith in the Lord will safely guide her family of a husband and child across the relentless desert. These two people illustrate just two circumstances of the many anecdotes about illegal immigrant’s journeys across the desert to cross the border Sonoran desert. They trek across the desert because of the advantages there are in crossing the border. The landscape of Arizona leaves areas where border patrols are not as abundant due to the conditions. Mexico, along with many other southern countries, doesn’t provide the necessary compensation for the amount of work citizens do day in and day out. Thus, their last resort is to cross the border illegally into the US in order to provide for their families.
This documentary provides the audience with the illegal immigrants point of view pertaining to crossing the border illegally. This film showed me just how desperate some of the families are to cross the border. It is shocking to me how so many parents were willing not only to risk their lives, but also their children’s lives in hope of a better life. I was amazed at how persistent they were in attempting to illegally cross the border. It was hard for me to believe how after many of these illegal immigrants were caught trying to cross the border, they had only the mind set of attempting to once again after being released from custody. I found it hard to come to terms with how there was even a group created to give advice to people trying to cross the desert. I believe that Grupo Beta has good intentions considering the amount of deaths recorded in the desert annually. However, I felt they were still letting all these people down by not stopping them from proceeding. I understand that many of these people trying to cross the border have almost no other option. However, I don’t understand why this group doesn’t at least intervene and try to reduce the amount of deaths in the desert even more significantly by not allowing people to illegally cross the border via the desert. I strongly believe that something should be done in Mexico in order to help these families economically. I think that the US should try and help aid Mexico who seems more interested in paying back an enormous debt than looking after its own people. I believe that having better jobs and opportunities will reduce the amount of casualties found in the desert attempting the cross the US/Mexico border. I believe the people won’t be as desperate and will be less likely to risk their lives for a better future. I suggest that the US government should deal with the problem of illegal immigration by providing these immigrants with temporary work visas. These immigrants should be allotted service hours they must complete in order to receive proper immigration forms. After they complete these service hours they should fill out the immigration forms. I believe that if immigrants with clean records and representation of true documents should be allowed to legally live in the US with a permanent resident green card. There are inclinations that allowing the millions of immigrants to reside in the US would lead to overpopulation. I believe this may become a concern, but that it should be dealt with if in fact the issue ever arises. In doing so I believe the issue of border control will be resolved, and more peace and opportunities will thus reduce the abundance of illegal immigrants trying to cross the US/ Mexico border.