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What the U.S- Mexico Border Wall bring to us?
The border security has remained an issue of concern in the United States, particularly since 2016, Presidential elections have been a hot topic. Donald Trump has throughout used this issue to raise support for himself. After coming to the oval seat, the President has been supporting the building of the Border wall on the international border between the United States and America. Donald Trump- the President has many times in his election campaign and during his term in the office has voiced for this wall, as according to him this is the only way, the undocumented immigrants can be stopped and America could be made stand again. The interesting fact is that the President has called initially to the Mexican leadership to pay for the cost of the building of the wall, which later on was decided by the Congress that the U.S administration will pay for the expenses of this wall. Reacting to this the President stated that in the future, the Mexican authorities will pay for this cost in one way or in a direct way.
There is another side of this issue, which is the majority supported by the critiques of the President. They claim that doing such things can raise other concerns. For example, they claim that the immigrants will still be coming to the border crossings and their life could come at stake. They also claim that this endangers the climate of that area too, as much part of the forest will be cut down. The critiques of this will also claim that a huge sum of money at the first instance would be spent on building and then annually much budget would be allocated in maintaining the security of the wall. This is the case at present with this wall, with the Presidency at one side and the opponents mainly the Democrats on another side.
The Mexico border wall issue is not new into American politics. Its histories could be traced since 1848 when the United States took over the land from the Mexican authorities and the Rio Bravo was officially called as the border between the United States and Mexico. It has been mentioned in many of the researches before that the human movement in, across and outside the border numbers to approximately thirty million, much of them are although the legal immigrants but they also include huge numbers of the illegal movement also ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"ktmxgpev","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Heyman)","plainCitation":"(Heyman)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":26,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/ETAZSI3G"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/ETAZSI3G"],"itemData":{"id":26,"type":"article-journal","title":"Constructing a virtual wall: Race and citizenship in US–Mexico border policing","container-title":"Journal of the Southwest","page":"305–333","volume":"50","issue":"3","source":"Google Scholar","title-short":"Constructing a virtual wall","author":[{"family":"Heyman","given":"Josiah McC"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2008"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Heyman). This trend in the human development raised after when the United States invited the Mexican labor to work on the farms in the United States, during World War Two. After the war was completed, and the United States border forces were back at their fronts in the United States especially on the border area between the United States and Mexico, the U.S authorities took serious notices of the illegal movements at the borders.
President Eisenhower repatriated some one to two million Mexican back to their own country. Despite such steps by the authorities in the United States, the illegal movement continued and till date, it remains a high problem for the U.S authorities. There are at present strict restrictions before entering into the United States, but due to the lengthy and broad border, these restrictions are considered not enough ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"8yjhJnvV","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Vila)","plainCitation":"(Vila)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":28,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/B4N3S2XZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/B4N3S2XZ"],"itemData":{"id":28,"type":"book","title":"Ethnography at the Border","publisher":"U of Minnesota Press","volume":"13","source":"Google Scholar","author":[{"family":"Vila","given":"Pablo"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2003"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Vila). It is a routine exercise that the bodies of the dead immigrants could be found on the border. This shows the life dangers which exists in the crossing and ultimately entering into the United States. Behind all such reasons of entering into the United States, it is the economic concerns. Due to the weak economic conditions of Mexico and for finding better opportunities for job, these immigrants move into the U.S, with taking that much risk- much importantly the risk to their lives.
Considering the above facts and the historical consequences of all such things, a thorough and a non- biased analysis requires many other aspects also. For example, there exist many animal species, which are also at risk of displacement. Cohn explains that working both in the U.S and the Mexico which concerns with the displacement of such species have also raised many concerns over the building of this wall ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"AdLRRKnv","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cohn)","plainCitation":"(Cohn)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":27,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/H7NP85HP"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/H7NP85HP"],"itemData":{"id":27,"type":"article-journal","title":"The environmental impacts of a border fence","container-title":"BioScience","page":"96–96","volume":"57","issue":"1","source":"Google Scholar","author":[{"family":"Cohn","given":"Jeffrey P."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2007"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Cohn). In addition to this many such international organizations have also called that it is useless to build such a wall when there are already many sewer restrictions are at place. Such organizations and the critiques of the Trump organization also claim that this wall brings nothing but the human loss, the mega cost, the animal displacements, etc. Near to the Arizona side of the border, many mammal animals have alone been found dead. The Owl species of this side of the border are one of the rare species in the U.S. if this wall is built despite the presence of such huge concerns of the animal husbandry organizations, the ecology of this large area will be disturbed too much of the extent.
The second most important non- political aspect of this wall is the environmental concerns. Many of the non- partisan organizations that work for the betterment of the ecology and the environment of the globe claim that considering the huge ecology of the border area- it is pertinent to let the area be that much eco- friendly as it is. However, at part of the White House authorities, they have put aside all such concerns. In the early 2000s, such greenery friendly steps were also ignored. Fox mentions that at that time the federal authorities oversaw all the environmental friendly concerns just to allow the barriers building to continue ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"SkXXnGul","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Fox)","plainCitation":"(Fox)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":29,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/99MACXAR"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/99MACXAR"],"itemData":{"id":29,"type":"book","title":"The fence and the river: Culture and politics at the US-Mexico border","publisher":"U of Minnesota Press","volume":"1","source":"Google Scholar","title-short":"The fence and the river","author":[{"family":"Fox","given":"Claire F."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1999"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Fox). If such steps are taken in the future, the whole ecosystem of the area and the area near to the border will be affected badly as the human environment is also dependent over these natural habitats of ours. It will therefore much bad to make wipe off such species who have all the right to live on the face of the earth.
The layout design of the proposed wall suggests that the area of the two thousand miles will be covered once the wall has been built. The experts who have been working on such projects at other places claim that such projects remain insufficient if at any side the economic situations remain bleak. The cost projected at present for this wall is more than two billion U.S dollars. The financial experts opine that this will take the U.S towards getting more debts from both external and internal sources. Another important aspect of this is that the people who enter into the U.S have a valid visa, the problem with them remains that these people outlive their stays. This is the real issues. The people who come to the U.S illegally are not that much more- when compared to the people with visa. Similarly, there are more administrative reasons which will be short enough to stop illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S.
This shows the ineffectiveness of the wall, compared with the fences which exist today. Another thing to this is the human smugglers who are the primary reasons for making sums of people at the border. The people who cross the border into the U.S are not the ones who came there individual but they are brought here by the human smugglers. Also, the people who fled from Mexico are not the Mexican, they include the people of other nationalities also. Mainly the Africans and some Europeans which consider this way of entering to the U.S as more cheap and safe. In light of these researches the critiques of the wall suggest that despite building this wall, Trump administration might consider helping countries such as the Mexican authorities and the authorities of other countries administratively. According to them, this is a cost-effective and enduring way to end the crisis of the illegal immigrations snide the U.S.
The White House administration at present very much politically motivated for building this wall. Many political commentators believe that the administration of the U.S is by choice standing at the point of no- return, and they have taken this decision a more kind of political staunch from which now they are shy of tracing themselves back. This administration has also planned to increase the number of security personnel’s (the patrolling guards) to ensure that the numbers of illegal immigrants is dropped. The financial expert opines that such hiring will need drastic budgetary cuts from the accounts of the other institutions. Along with the hiring process, their procurements, and finally their pieces of training will also add much to the budget of the federal government. The patrolling experts have also much time voiced that considering the rough terrain of this area, it is not beneficial to hire more such guards as these people quit their jobs too early and after every bi-annual, the situation comes to the similar point.
Thus, this wall about which the President is much vocal brings with it many human losses, the environmental consequences, the human losses and more importantly a bad image to the American nations. The building of this wall just reflects the irrational stances of the present administration and people consider that they are shaming form taking administrative measures as it will bring them to a politically down position. This must always be kept in mind that these immigrants who are fleeing to the country in which they want to make their life- in the country which at the time required the forefathers of these people to share their burdens at farms and at many other workplaces.
Works Cited:
ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Cohn, Jeffrey P. “The Environmental Impacts of a Border Fence.” BioScience, vol. 57, no. 1, 2007, pp. 96–96.
Fox, Claire F. The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the US-Mexico Border. Vol. 1, U of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Heyman, Josiah McC. "Constructing a Virtual Wall: Race and Citizenship in the US–Mexico Border Policing." Journal of the Southwest, vol. 50, no. 3, 2008, pp. 305–333.
Vila, Pablo. Ethnography at the Border. Vol. 13, U of Minnesota Press, 2003.
