'Walled Off' By Mary Kate Frank

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.

The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls reveals one look into a dysfunctional family. This personal memoir is full of lessons of redemption and reliance for all. Jeannette and her siblings thrived with parents whose beliefs and stubborn ways of life, changed their children’s’ lives forever. Though their parent’s dreadful actions, the children tried to fend for them. Rex, a very brilliant man, when sober and Rose Mary, an inspirational artist, when not a panhandler risked their own lives daily. Even though Rex and Rose Mary’s lives were unstable at times, they would instill lessons into their children. Their philophies in life I believe relied on one another, which taught their children some

In recent news our new president Donald Trump has proposed of building a 30-foot-high wall bordering the United States and Mexico. The purpose of this wall is to keep illegal immigrants from entering therefore keeping our population down. The wall will be 30-feet high and roughly 2,000 miles long. The price of this wall is unknown but it will need a $2.6 billion down payment from Congress. In America our society has become more accepting with African-Americans.

When president Donald Trump declare on his agenda that he will build the wall, he seems to forgot about many factors. It’s not just who’s going to pay for it but how it will affect the United States. However, there are millions of people who lives in both side of the wall. If the wall was build, the business will comes and the property owner will start to see ‘their land’ bisected by the wall. Indeed, the Mexican government saw this problem and they has published studies on its impact. The border wall is going to threaten the diversity of two communities along the 1,989 miles. Moreover, building the huge and large wall wasn’t easy because its need a lot of money to make it happen. The

But, how? The wall is just blocking on part or our country and that country being blocked could come up with other methods to act and find way to bypass the wall. Trump is a person who has many goals, but doesn't think through them He doesn't see the full effect of his ideas and how others would be effected. The wall would be useless and just cause more and more chaos. According to David Martin, a professor at Grinnell College, he wrote a article and said “This strategy is politically appealing for its simplicity, but it misunderstands the problems of globalization and migration it aims to address. Building walls has rarely has achieved its intended effect, and may result in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.” Many walls have Ben built throughout the world and many of the walls seem useless. The wall that would be built by trump is t necessary, it's just a waste of resources. He also wrote “In U.S. history, building paper and concrete walls resulted in episodes that today are widely viewed by historians as inconsistent with our better democratic angels.” The U.S. building a wall won't help our economy won't help our country. In our past, the U.S. and other nations have tries this and they failed, so I can we say we will succeed. Donald Trump doesn't think thoroughly he plans and only acts on based upon what he sees, which will eventually lead to a decrease in our U.S.

Many have already been asked to give up farmland along the border, and others face the threat of being cut off from their sacred lands. Those who have already been affected by the wall face the challenge everyday of being separated from their loved ones. Their only hope to see those they have been separated from is a small wired part of the wall just south of San Diego, Friendship Park. The border wall goes against what America was built on, and will not stop illegal immigration or the issues it may cause.

The United States should not build a wall on the Mexico border because of all the bad effects It could have on the U.S. after it’s built. One of the main effects of the wall would be on the economy, the trade with Mexico would be crushed by the wall, jobs would be loss too. Another effect if the wall was made is the social effect on the communities of the people around the wall. One last effect of the wall being built is the political task of .

Donald J. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the American 2016 Presidential election, has proposed building a complete and securely patrolled border wall along the 700+ mile border between American and Mexico. Trump has called for complete cooperation and collaboration from Mexico’s government. However, ex-Mexican President Fox, and current Mexican governmental leaders, have stated that they will have no part in helping to finance and build a border wall. This has led Trump to provoke the Mexican government and state that he’ll only build the wall higher if Mexico does not cooperate (Justin & Stanley, 2016). As such, Trump is creating a political mess within American and

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.

"But the reality is that a wall, no matter how “big,” how “beautiful,” and how “ahead of schedule” Trump builds it, cannot be an effective enforcement tool. The immigration system is plagued with problems and factors that building a wall cannot fix. It might just end up making some of them worse." This quote summarizes that no matter how magnificent or greatly build it’s still not going to be an effective thing to keep out the undocumented illegal aliens. Building a wall will only increase their chances in finding new ways to cross it by either tunneling underground or building a

This year’s election cycle brought heated debates and discussions about many things; “the wall”, free trade, NAFTA, immigration issues, borders security and policy issues. Regardless of which side of the political isle you stand, which way the political winds sway in Washington D.C., one thing is certain not to change with the election cycle, and that is, the actual physical border between The United States and Mexico. Therefore, if we can’t change that, and we can’t, then there needs to be solutions to problems that continue to exist between the two sovereign countries. Trade and Security are two of the most important factors for neighboring countries and they must not be ignored. Beyond just good political, diplomatic, and strategic vision it is important to understand there are cultural, education and diversity complexities which takes tremendous and often times delicate maneuvering to come together for the greater good of both economies and governments, as millions of people rely on successful trade agreements and security.

He wants to put up a wall in order to secure our nation. Article I; Section 8; Clause 4 of the Constitution reads, “The Congress has the power to establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Naturalization is the process by which an immigrant becomes a U.S. citizen. If Trump puts up a wall, people have no way of becoming a legal immigrant which is saying that they are not worthy of that even though other people have been in the past. This situation goes against the principal of government stated in the Declaration of Independence saying “that all men are created equal”. Plus, if Trump did become president, in order to even make this happen he would have to follow the principle of popular sovereignty which is implied by the first three words of the Constitution saying “We, the people” in terms of popular sovereignty meaning the government's right to rule comes from the people. As focused in on, Donald Trump's view on immigration is

During an off-the-record interview with reporters onboard Air Force One, President Trump disclosed more details about his border wall plan. He states, “It’s a 2,000 mile border, but you don’t need 2,000 miles of wall because you have a lot of natural barriers. But you’ll need anywhere from 700 to 900 miles” (Trump). Here he is explaining that a physical wall will not be necessary throughout the entire length of the United States-Mexico border as there are natural landmarks such as lakes, rivers, and mountains that serve as a partition between the two countries. President Trump also mentions the possibility of the wall to include solar panels to provide renewable energy in addition to protecting United States’ southern border. Additionally, he elaborates with more detail on the physical appearance of the wall describing it as “a steel wall with openings.” (Trump). Donald Trump emphasizes transparency of the wall to ensure the safety of those in its vicinity. Finally, Trump concludes the interview portion about the wall by explaining that his proposal has technically already

Starting in 2006, the United States started to develop the wall along parts of the frontier between U.S. and Mexico. There was 670 miles of the wall authorized to be assembled, and there were many objections to it being built. Besides the oppositions, from 2006 to 2009 there was already more than 100 miles of the wall constructed (Gilman 258). Congress passed the “Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act” in 1996. The act gave power to the government to create walls or barriers along the border, and it allowed it to seize land from people if it is imperative in protecting the borderline of the country (Gilman 259). In 2006, the “Secure Fence Act” was passed that instructed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a fence stretching from 5 different areas of the border. In 2007, there was 70 miles of the wall built in the Arizona and Mexico frontier. Since this occurrence, the government then shifted its surveillance to the border along Texas and Mexico in 2007, and started suggestions to assemble more than 100 miles of the border wall by 2008 (Gilman 260). Towards the end of 2007, the

countries’ and people have to deal with it until this day. The border has stop every person who’s coming from Mexico to the United States not giving them the right to come to their land that once was theirs. Americans not wanting nothing to do Mexicans immigrants. Especially the new president of The United Stated, Donald Trump. In November 2016 Donald Trump was elected as the president, in which he brought back so much conflict again with Mexico by promoting to build a wall to stop immigrants to move to the Unites States illegally. It is said that Trump won the election because of how he initiated his campaign essentially promoting racism against illegal immigrants in general, yet he only focused with those who are from Mexico. He wants to build a wall where he intends on making México pay for. The wall would be a 30-foot-high border which he plans on calling it a big beautiful wall. The wall would be hard to climb or cut through and make it a lot more