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WHERE IS TRUMP’S WALL?
After making building
a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico a cornerstone issue of his 2016
presidential campaign, it appears President Donald Trump is content with
addressing the wall at a later date.
"…protect your families"?
Why would a migrant, legal or not, represent any more of a
threat to your families than your own native population?
You do understand, don't you, that America has the highest
domestic violent crime rates in the western world already?
As for Israel's Nazi-like wall, if you haven't noticed that
it includes a series of tall guard towers with men behind bullet-proof glass at
machine guns, you've missed the most important part.
That in fact is the only reason Israel's wall works at all,
that it is not bulldozed, blown-up, or tunneled under constantly.
The brutal Israelis have certainly proved, many times over,
that they have no compunction about shooting civilians for the slightest
reason.
I don't think, or at least I hope, that most Americans are
not ready for that kind of behavior over a two thousand mile stretch of their
country, rendering it into a gigantic maximum-security penitentiary.
Of course, what you and other Trump acolytes also miss is
that there has always been a powerful American lobby for some degree of illegal
Mexican migration.
Trump may well have been ignorant of this fact - he has
proved ignorant of a remarkable number of things in a few months - when he
blubbered about his wall, but I’m sure he has since been filled in.
Many of the vegetables and fruits on your dinner table are
picked by them. Half the low-wage jobs in the American Southwest are staffed
with them - cleaners, packers, baby sitters, caregivers, fast order cooks, etc.
