Posted on 02/13/2017 9:20:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The much-needed reforms initiated by the Trump Administration are met with two types of criticisms. The first and least used is that the reform is bad policy, for one reason or another. The second often-used type is that the proposal causes negative emotions, bad vibes, and sends inappropriate messages.
Nowhere is this more evident than in arguments against building a wall on our southern border and implementing stricter border enforcement. From a purely practical standpoint, increased border control is vitally important for both Mexico and the America. Both countries benefit by slowing the flow of narcotics across the border. There is no reason to assume that terrorist bombers transiting Mexico will always wait till they reach America. To a terrorist, a gay disco in Mexico looks about like an American or French gay disco.
The real benefit to the wall is stopping illegal immigration. In recent years the flow of Mexican nationals has been out of America and back to Mexico. The vast majority of people illegally crossing our border are from Central American countries. They illegally enter and illegally cross Mexico. By removing easy to access to America, the wall reduces this problem for Mexico.
Obviously the Wall is all good. Right? "No." say the critics. A wall makes Mexico feel bad. It reminds Mexicans that they lost half their territory in the Mexican American war of 1846-1848. Many Mexicans feel this was an unjust war of imperial conquest. Unfortunately some liberal Americans display their sensitivity and assuage their guilt by agreeing.
It's time to put that war in proper perspective. Here are three perspectives, ranging from the most obvious to the slightly more nuanced.
1. All American and Mexico did was exercise normal military force to rationalize the arbitrary and irrational boundaries imposed by European Imperialists.
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I don't buy into that.
A loose border allows Mexico to dump its potentially problematic population who cannot function in their own country, to come here, tax our welfare and health systems, and send money back to Mexico which will be used in the Mexican economy.
If you stop the flow through Mexico from South American countries they will back up in Mexico, where they are not wanted.
Then Mexico would have the problem of rounding them up and shipping them back.
As far as the drug traffic goes, it is a one way path from Mexico to the United States. Why stop that. Tom
If you want to break the back of the narco-state in Mexico, you have to build the wall. Its the only way to free Mexico from its and our worst elements.
If every Mexican in Mexico and los Estados Unidos is saying the wall is a terrible idea and that it won’t work, then we can be sure the wall is an excellent idea.
Build it and they won’t come.
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