America shares seven thousand miles of land bordering Canada and Mexico, including lakes, rivers, and coastal waters. Sharing these lands and waters makes it easier for people to enter and exit the country more easily than not. Illegal immigrants have found ways to enter the United States and stay there illegally. This is why border patrols should be increased. Tunnels and drug smuggling, identity theft and document fraud, attacks on Border Patrol and law enforcement officers and the dangers they face are just a few of the topics immigration is impacting and why the Border Patrol should be increased. Tunnels and drug trafficking affect Border Patrol and US citizens. Some things have been changed to keep Border Patrol agents safe. There are tunnels that carry sewage and storm runoff between Mexico and the United States and are popular routes for drug smuggling. “Tom Pittman, a Border Patrol agent, found putrid puddles, makeshift latrines, and abandoned latrines, and left behind needles that were used by drug traffickers,” (Santos). The robots that have been made can now do the work of Tom Pittman and other agents. Most of the tunnels found ranged from Nogales, Mexico, to Nogales, Arizona, where agents, cameras and drones would have detected them if they were seen. Border Patrol agents and agents recently closed the largest tunnel found so far. This tunnel was a four hundred and eighty-one foot passage ventilated and cooled by fans and lit by lanterns hung on strings on the tunnel walls. The Border Patrol attempted to dump concrete at entry and exit points and also installed cameras in the tunnels to detect movement. Drug traffickers be damned... center of paper... Ivers is a major factor in being easily sneaky in illegal immigration across borders that separate different worlds, countries, governments and lifestyles. People have found easy and simple ways to enter illegally without getting caught. Illegal immigrants stay and make life more difficult for legal citizens of the United States by taking jobs that could be those of legal citizens, ruining the economy, not paying taxes, and bringing with them drugs and other harmful substances. . Tunnels and drug trafficking, identity theft and document fraud, attacks on Border Patrol and law enforcement and the dangers they face are all topics that touch on illegal immigration along with many other topics. Increased border patrol will have a very positive effect on the United States by reducing the list of things the United States could do.