Does border security really make a difference?
Many experts acknowledge that the absence of effective border control is the main obstacle in solving the chronic immigration problem in the United States. Any reforms or measures taken to resolve the situation of immigrants, who are already residing in the country, are doomed to fail because of the continuous and unregulated flow of new immigrants. The acuteness of this problem is also compounded by the fact that the secret routes used by illegal immigrants to enter the United States, can also be used by smugglers and terrorists. The abnormality of this situation is made especially clear by comparing the length of U.S. borders with the length of former Soviet Union’s land borders. Not counting the distant sub-polar Alaskan borders with Canada, the Soviet Union’s borders were almost twice as long as those of the United States, but they were completely closed. The borders of today’s Russia, however, are being infiltrated by illegal arrivals from Kazakhstan and China. Some will argue tha
