Since the events of September 11th, US policy on immigration, especially from Mexico, has become stricter, and tensions over this policy have risen. On March 23, 2004, a meeting was conducted before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, called "US & Mexico Immigration Policy & the Bilateral Relationship." The conference concluded that steps need to be taken to prevent additional illegal immigrants, and that visa types need to be expanded, in order to allow for more legal Mexican immigrants. I recognize the significance of this situation, and have therefore formulated my own immigration policy proposal, based on the testimony of the Senate committee, information from the book The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, and support from the article "Death at the Wall."

Issues involving US-Mexican immigration policy have extended from the social to political spectrum. In the book The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, the Arroyo...