Walls. Walls can have such a powerful influence. The division of territory has always been a part of
society and used for a range of many reasons. They are used as simple structure
to separate the gardens of people’s homes to huge construction projects like
the Great Wall of China or Hadrian’s Wall with the main purpose of defending a
country for invading armies. One of the most famous walls in history is the
Berlin Wall as this was what split the City in half. Centred around Communism and
Capitalism with its destruction in 1990 it helped along way to end the Cold War
In 1990. But today you most active and topical wall is that of the USxican (United
States and Mexico) border. Should the US Government make it a wall like Berlin
50ft high all the way across from coast to coast rather than in some just in specific
located areas or have no wall at all? Should the US spend Millions of Dollars on
border control police? Should more responsibility be handed over to the Mexican
Government?
Many Mexicans illegally or legally immigrate to the USA to
for a better quality of life as they believe that there is more opportunities
in work/ pay/ social activities, along with the fact the crime rate drops
dramatically. This has an inverse relationship with the life expectancy rate.
Whether all s true and good is hard to tell as circumstances change on family
to family.
An interesting website:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=935
gives facts and figures on the Latin America to US Immigration and goes through
how the immigration on rise and will evidently carry on this way in the future.
The Latinos already count for 16% of the US, 4% of which is from Mexico alone. Some
obscure ones include,
- Mexican immigrant men outnumbered women in 2011.
- The foreign born from Mexico were more likely to be
of working age than the US born and foreign born overall.
- In early 2011, 59 percent of all unauthorized
immigrants in the United States were from Mexico.
There are some US citizens that would say, “Block
off the Mexican border and send them all back, The US is meant to be a White Nation.” But Immigration has always been a part of the History
of the United States. http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-the-u-s-stop-all-immigration
is a website that debates: should immigration to the United States be stopped?
One person argued,
Serious Drain on
Americans
Most homeless and
impoverished people were born in this country. They need to be housed, fed,
clothed, educated, and employed! Many have fought wars and paid dearly for
their loyalty to a government/system which has exploited and trashed them, a
system which preferentially allows corporations to import educated, privileged
foreigners to thrive in the land Americans have fought to build, even die for.
It is a disgrace.
So it would seem that this debate on
border control will always be a controversial topic in the Nation’s future. One
that will cost Billions of US Dollars, hundreds of man hours of discussion, and
split opinion in the nation.
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