The Importance of a Wall on the Southern Border

General Blurps Posted on June 23, 2016 in Blog

The use perimeter walls have been adopted by various countries for several reasons which include keeping illegal migrants, terrorists, and insurgents as well as drug smugglers way. With the increasing political instability in various countries, people migrate in an effort to seek refuge in safer countries as refugees. However, there comes along negative effects associated with immigrants such as insecurity issues (McGuire, 2013). Likewise, with proliferation of drug markets, smugglers have formed trade networks all over the world in an effort to expand their drugs businesses. This is the prime reason as to why some countries have turned to the construction of security walls at the borders so as to allow restricted entry into and out of people in such countries.

The Berlin wall is one of the earliest nation separating walls but since its fall, several other security walls and fences have been constructed by several nations. Even though such fences and walls are due to external reasons, much of such projects are based on internal thinking and politics. For instance, the 664 Mexico-United States perimeter wall was specifically meant to keep the drug cartels in Mexico from establishing bases in the United States (Jones, 2014). Mexico has been for many years known for production and distribution of illegal drugs such as marijuana and methametaphine which is very profitable. Due to its low costs some of these drugs have been found to flood the United States markets leading to high dependence rates as well as poverty rates. Sometimes we tend to think that border walls and fences are sharp just as individual; country maps appear but this is not the case. The military keep watch a these walls which in most instances have entry and exit gates. These are the points where airplanes, vehicles and people on foot are inspected before they enter into a foreign country.

Additionally, entry of illegal migrants might have a negative effect to the culture of the residents of the country in question. This is evident especially in the United States whereby the changes in the ways of life of its citizens has been influenced by immigrants. At some point, the Chinese, Italians and Irish were the major threats to America?s culture. At present, the immigrants of Muslim and Latin origin are the major threats who have been found to bring about social codes that have the ability to alter the culture of Native Americans (Andreas, 2012).

The United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump indicates that the Mexicans take advantage of the leaders in the United States by allowing the flow of drug cartels and illegal migrants into the country. This is the major reason why Trump insists that the Mexican government must contribute towards the costs of constructing the Southern wall which Mexicans do not agree to. Sometimes in the year 2005, the Mexico declared a state of emergency to drug peddling and claimed that the government had been unable to control drug smuggling and illegal migrations. However, Mexico has not supportive to the construction of a security wall at the United States border. This is the time when the United States built up underground tunnels to have controlled entry and exit to Mexico.

There are about forty of these channels but it has been discovered that drugs smuggling mostly takes place through these tunnels (McGuire, 2013). For instance, there is one of the tunnels which spans from San Diego to Tijuana was amazement since despite the advance construction designs like wired electricity, concrete floor and being a half miles long, about three hundred pounds of marijuana was found at one of its ends. Additionally, a tunnel at the California border that had a modern warehouse was found to be going the buildings from Mexico to the United States. This is the reason why fences and security walls are said to be likely to reduce such insecurity and drug trafficking issues. Although, America has not started the implementation of the project, there is hope that the wall will help in control of illegal immigrants and drug trafficking.

References

Andreas, P. (2012). Border games: Policing the US-Mexico divide. Cornell University Press.

Jones, R. (2014). Border Wars: Narratives and Images of the US-Mexican Border on TV. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(3), 530-550.

McGuire, R. H. (2013). Steel Walls and Picket Fences: Rematerializing the US? Mexican Border in Ambos Nogales. American Anthropologist, 115(3), 466-480.

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