Donald J. Trump's Great Wall

As the campaign for the presidential nomination is just getting to a rolling point many of the candidates have started to present their agendas if they become President. One of the most controversial is the idea presented by the leading Republican candidate Donald J. Trump, his idea is to build a great wall to span the entire border between Mexico and the United States. His reasoning is that this wall will help stop the flow of illegal immigrants coming into our country and stop them from taking our jobs, tax money, and stop crime. Although this idea is not a new one, look to the George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act, Trump poll number are soaring at the idea of this wall being built. Although the plan to create a wall separating the United States …show more content…
When asked how trump would do such a daunting task be responded, “...nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” (CNBC, 2015) Trump’s reasoning why a wall must separate us from our friendly neighbors consists of a nation if not a nation with our borders and that Mexico’s leader are sending over immigrants to “export crime and poverty in their own country.” (Trump, n.d.) Trump in his lifetime had only created massive buildings, one of the ones being 95 stories, but he himself has never created anything through his own engineering. Trump hires people to create the plans for him, thus discrediting his statement saying that he is the best a building walls. Also, this is something the United States wants, not Mexico so it seems ridiculous for the United States to force Mexico to pay for this, especially in their time of financial distress. Mexico because of their drug violence and poor living conditions, have their citizens coming into America for a chance at a better life. For the statement they just bring poverty and violence it would be incredibly inconsiderate for an entire country to deny one race of people a chance at a better life because a few of those …show more content…
His ideas to his followers seem revolutionary yet when looked at more closely and researched, turn into heaping piles of rubble. This idea to build a wall to seperate the United States and Mexico is absolutely appalling. :Not only will this wall tear apart families and separate the Unites States from their friendly neighbor it will also strip anyone who wants to come to this country to start a new life without poverty of their chance of doing so. The wall itself is poorly thought out and the plan is riddled with financial gaps and terrible construction. Not only that but will not even guarantee to keep immigrants out as it was intended to do. Yes, the wall could possibly stop immigration of illegal persons yet the people who support this wall forget that the founding fathers where immigrants that came to a foreign land to escape the grasp of the English church and to escape poverty and have a chance of a new life. These men built the country to be a new start, a chance to rise above what life has given you and make it better. This wall will keep out immigrants in need of a new start and will crush their chance of any hope of making a better life for them and their children. If this wall is built not only will it be separating two countries who have worked in harmony for thousands of years, it will also smash the moral compass that this great nation was built