It is no stretch to argue that without his vow to build a wall on our border with Mexico, Donald Trump would never have been elected president.
Opposition to a border wall takes the form of exasperation and snark but little in the way of argumentation.
Senator Charles Schumer, in the Democratic response to the president, called the wall "Ineffective and unnecessary." Opponents of the idea of a physical structure impeding unwanted migration claim that they support border security wholeheartedly-it's just that walls don't work.
What evidence is there that walls-for millennia the most basic unit of construction and defense-are ineffective? A wall, or fence, runs along much of the border near population centers like San Diego and El Paso, and these barriers appear to work, to the extent that a partial wall can be said to work.
Saudi Arabia has a wall on its border with Yemen and has begun construction of a wall on its Iraq border, too.
Once you have conceded that border security is essential, as Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supposedly do, how can you oppose a wall, when it's clear that without one, the border will remain unsecured? The border-protection agents already have drones, sensors, and other "Smart" technology that opponents suggest would be better than a physical structure.
If no progress is made toward an agreement, Trump will have two options: further temporizing of his position, up to and including concession of defeat; or attempt to exercise presidential authority-subject to legal review-to declare a national emergency and build the wall on his own.
https://www.city-journal.org/trump-border-wall
Opposition to a border wall takes the form of exasperation and snark but little in the way of argumentation.
Senator Charles Schumer, in the Democratic response to the president, called the wall "Ineffective and unnecessary." Opponents of the idea of a physical structure impeding unwanted migration claim that they support border security wholeheartedly-it's just that walls don't work.
What evidence is there that walls-for millennia the most basic unit of construction and defense-are ineffective? A wall, or fence, runs along much of the border near population centers like San Diego and El Paso, and these barriers appear to work, to the extent that a partial wall can be said to work.
Saudi Arabia has a wall on its border with Yemen and has begun construction of a wall on its Iraq border, too.
Once you have conceded that border security is essential, as Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supposedly do, how can you oppose a wall, when it's clear that without one, the border will remain unsecured? The border-protection agents already have drones, sensors, and other "Smart" technology that opponents suggest would be better than a physical structure.
If no progress is made toward an agreement, Trump will have two options: further temporizing of his position, up to and including concession of defeat; or attempt to exercise presidential authority-subject to legal review-to declare a national emergency and build the wall on his own.
https://www.city-journal.org/trump-border-wall
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