Mexican Border Wall

Obstacles are not preferable. Our dreams would be achieved more quickly if the obstacles did not exist. However, the obstacles, or “brick walls” as Randy Pausch refers to them, show us how badly we want to fulfil that dream. If they did not exist, we would never know if our passions were true. As stated by Pausch, “Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something” (79). I believe that if I heed to this advice, my success rate will drastically increase. In fact, it

For me personally I don’t think the wall should be build. The wall is a waste of money, and time the solution of building a wall across the border is not very smart. The wall will cost millions of dollars to build, and on top of that it would take a couple of years to finish it. Instead of wasting money trying to build a wall that would take a long time to show effectiveness, we could use less money to try a different method it’s that would take less time. The purpose of this article is to inform us, about the wall and how going to help stop immigrants from crossing the border, the way I see it is that building the wall is just something trump is trying to do make it seem like he is finding solutions to the problem we face today.

The 45th president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, is a political man who has many ideas to improve the U.S. One of the many idea he had included building a wall between the borders of the United States and Mexico for the “purpose of controlling immigration into America”. According to Trump this wall is supposed to help our country with its national security. In reality though, many people believe that the wall is showing Trumps true colors. Many people are contemplating on the fact if Trump is a racist person who is building the wall because it provides a method of targeting and preventing those who are trying to cross the Mexican-American Border. In reality, Trump only cares about trying to make “America Great Again”, and

In “Our Wall”, the author, Charles Bowden gives a detailed account of the conflict associated with the wall along the United States-Mexico border. The author makes his points through interviews with many different people along both sides of the border along with historical events and facts. Bowden is a very credible source, with years of experience working in the area and creates a very thorough account of the issue. The author seems to take a stance against the wall, but he does point out the other side of the argument and things that could be good about it. I wish the author would have made his viewpoints more clear because they are a little bit hard to pick up on. Another item I think was missing from the

I understand the advantages a wall gives, because a lot of immigrants come through, but it’s not a practical wall. If eleven-million already get in with this “barrier”, do we really even need it if we have protection? The U.S. have spent nearly eighteen billion dollars on immigration problems, and are planning to add another five billion in the next five years (ProPublica, xx). If the first eighteen didn’t get us much, why should we invest in another five billion? The money should go to better things, like helping poor cities, and even helping past traumatic events. Look at New Orleans, which is still very much affected by Hurricane Katrina. They most definitely could use help. Reasonably, there just isn't a good solution to fix this border, because we do not need

According to the Huffington Post, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras - where most of these immigrants come from - are all in the top five countries with the highest homicide rates, so if the United States is a country of diversity, liberty, and freedom, why build a wall to block out those who want a chance of decent life? During our current president Trump’s candidacy, he proposed the idea of building a border wall between the United States and Mexico. As a majority of the population has obviously known, there’s been controversy over whether or not building a border wall will benefit us in terms of American jobs and reducing crime. Donald Trump has already signed a numerous amount of executive papers towards constructing the wall and taking

Many say that the border wall is a bad idea, but others say it has some benefits. President Trump said in his campaign that he wanted “a great, great wall.” This was to ensure that anyone with no papers doesn’t take the jobs that “Americans” need. Since there are 2 sides of this problem they should both be addressed.

In 2014, the budget for the United States border patrol was upwards of $3.5 billion according to the CBP. This country is already spending an absurd amount of money on border control. Despite all of this funding undocumented immigration still runs rampant. Let's face that facts Donald, increased border protection doesn't work. As Malcolm Galdwell would say, it follows the inverted-u logic. Put simply Border Patrol produces diminishing returns and may even increase undocumented immigration. All the "Mexican Great Wall" does is just further prove Trump's animosity towards hispanics.

Mighty Amado 43 says that “The construction of a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico would not only be an ineffective tool for controlling immigration, it would be an utter waste of government resources.” I agree with that, because it would just be a waste of taxpayers money just to build a wall that people could just climb over.

Building this wall will be extremely expensive for the US. The wall is estimated to range as high as $14 billion. The US could be spending this money on better things. Hurricane Harvey alone is estimated to cost the US and its citizens up to $40 billion. The combination of lost homes and businesses adds up quick. Building this wall would be a huge waste of money, the government should be focusing on aiding those already living in the country as opposed to keeping others out.

Did you know that it will cost billions to finish the border wall between U.S and Mexico? Do you know where is Trump is going to get billions from ? Tax payers. Congress has no idea where to get the money to fund the building of the border wall between the U.S and Mexico. The fence will not stop immigrants from coming into the country at all, there are ways that people from Mexico can enter the U.S legally. The border wall is too expensive and impractical for us to continue building to complete it, it’s going to take 4 years for the border wall to completely finish covering the remaining 1,250 miles. A border wall won’t solve any terrorist problem that we as a country have. We shouldn’t continuing the building of the U.S- Mexico border because it just a waste of time and money because it will take 4 years for the border wall to be completely finish the border and maybe after the wall is finish, May not Trump won’t be president The border wall won’t help the crime rate go down in the U.S.

In previous years, many countries and territories around the world have attempted to build walls, and many have had very much success. For example, Most of the walls built after World War 2 and the Cold War still exist today. There were a total of 110 walls built between that time period. Professor Nazli Avdan led a study that had a goal of identifying if a border wall reduced or increased the risk of a transnational terrorist attack. This study found that since the year 1900, transnational terrorist attacks have seen a thirteen percent annual decrease in countries with border walls (Border fences reduce...attacks). This has been a real focal point that President Donald Trump has used to get people to agree with him. Another reason of his includes the disrupting of the funneling of illicit money and drugs into the United States of America (Border fences reduce...attacks). The bonus of the building of the wall is that it will be a visible sign of the government taking action.

Thesis Statement: The wall that Trump wants to create will be detrimental to the environment, cost a lot of money & resources, and may not be effective against the immigration problem.

Today we are faced with many problems, controversies and struggles in our country because of what we believe in. Some of our biggest problems we face today are immigration, black lives matter, discrimination and college tuition. One of these topics your plan is to build a wall to stop the flood of illegal immigrants flowing into our country. Why would that stop the flow of drugs coming from to the U.S.? The drugs our coming in underground through tunnels for the shipment of drugs. The wall only solves the problem of immigrants walking or with vehicles above ground. Mr. President how will Mexico pay for the wall if they don’t have any money they are one of the poorest country. Mexico is run by the Cartels, so what will force mexico to build

In the past few years, there has been a recent push for a border wall to protect the United States from the increase in immigration and drug trafficking. Although the border wall aids in reducing problems in our country, it is affecting the economy of the country and the health of our environment, therefore the border wall is not the best solution.