Today in the LA Times there's an article about the Fence Project. It's amusing to me that a government seriously believes, likes to believe or pretends to believe that a wall will discourage people from coming to the U.S. This project is a waste of money first of all. Second, has this government learned nothing from history? Actually they've proved time and again that they really haven't learned anything from history, as a government anyway.
No wall is going to stop a desperate person from getting what they need. This desperate person is a father or a mother in search of a better life for their family. A wall is the last thing that is going to deter them, these people have lived through things worse than material obstacles. If jobs were available to them in their own countries they wouldn't risk their lives, but not only is there a lack of employment. There's a lack of opportunity for prosperity and security.
A wall is not the solution to this problem. This is like sticking a band-aid on a viral infection. No one take offense to this, I am not calling immigrants viruses. I simply want to illustrate that there is a bigger issue there and every solution the government has come up with is a temporary cover-up. To soothe the tranquility of the extreme conservatives and everyone else who is blindly afraid of immigration and the people forced into this.
Think about it. Discuss it.
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