An Unneeded Wall

An Unneeded Wall

Today we must address an issue that is very urgent in our nation today. Today we will debate the building of 700 additional miles of wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. Some say that this is a necessary measure in the fight against the ever growing threat of terrorism in the globalized world we live in today. Some say that illegal aliens will continue to over run our country, stealing jobs from citizens and bringing with them crime and drugs if we do not do something now. Others complain about the pressure to learn another language now spoken by 28.1 million of this nation’s population. I disagree with these opinions and urge you to heed what I and many other are saying about this before too much money is spent on something of little value.

First of all, terrorists do not come through the Mexican border. It seems unlikely that a terrorist would attempt to enter the country this way, increasing the chance of being caught and suspected of something by a border patrol agent before they even neared their targets. Terrorists have never come through our southern border before and realistically, in the off-chance that a terrorist wanted to come in that way, a wall would not stop them .We know this because of the level of organization that most terrorist plots have before execution. Terrorist groups have many resources at their disposal, surely they have something with which they can get around a wall.

The wall would be three layers thick at many places but still this will not stop the flow of immigrants into the United States. One critic of the wall says

“First, as any border patrol agent will tell you, there's no fence that can keep out someone who is desperate to feed his family and who's willing to go around, go over, or go under.”

This critic, Ruben Navarrette Jr., who wrote an article for CNN.com went on to explain this might even worsen immigration problems.

“ …we've built fences before, and it only resulted in more illegal immigration. It used to be that one member of a family would go north -- a father, son or brother -- and