Donald Trump's Wall: The Struggle To Divide North America

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Walls are meant to divide, protect, and encloses areas, they are thought to be security in homes and buildings, they were not meant to be used as barriers between friendly countries that can offer things we cannot have in hand without their help and support. However, President Trump sees our neighbors as threats, he wants to divide North America with this so-called “shield”. Does Trump not understand that walls can be broken, or climbed over, or that immigrants can simply go around the wall or dig under it? In my opinion, the wall that President Donald Trump wants to build is a waste of time, currency, and resources. If you think about it, the wall is 2,000 miles long, which will take an extraneous amount of time to build, nevertheless, with

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