Essay On Mexican Border

The U.S. Mexican Border If you’ve paid attention to political news, you’ve probably heard of Donald Trump’s controversial claim: we should build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The implementation of a wall on the U.S-Mexican Border is an adverse decision. Not only will this be detrimental for the financial state of America, but it could also disturb wildlife, and diplomatic relations, due to Trump’s claim regarding Mexico to pay for the wall. With the 2016 presidential election quickly approaching, it must be ensured now that this wall will never be built before it’s too late. Constructing a wall along the U.S./Mexican border is severely detrimental to our economy, citizens, amongst other things. Building this wall will not only remove funds from education, and healthcare, our country is already trillions of dollars in debt. Physically constructing such a wall would cost from around $15 billion to $25 billion (CNBC), and maintaining this 1,300 mile long border would cost $750 million a year. All of this money will be drawn from taxpayers, and government funds, not just infuriating citizens, but also adding on to our $19.2 trillion debt. Also, immigrants may still be able to find a way around the wall, and those that are currently in America have no feasible solution to get out. Nevertheless, the economy will never get a chance to recover and improve its financial state with the addition of …show more content…
As it has been clearly displayed, building a wall between the U.S.-Mexico borders can be seriously detrimental to not only Mexico, but the U.S. itself. This border between these two developed countries can seriously harm our economy, disrupt or kill the very animals we fought so hard to save, and diplomatic/economic relations in terms of who would be paying for the wall. It’s time to oppose such a grotesque idea and therefore, the execution of developing and building a wall must never be