Walls
The steel wall: The thirty foot high wall being built in the wilderness costs upwards of $20 million per mile. Here, just east of Douglas, they are busily constructing an additional 21 miles. For what? To cause more injuries and deaths for those migrants who have already been pushed into the desert by the existing walls in the border cities (aka prevention through deterrence)? It won’t stop people from coming. They can – and do - still climb up and over over it. And high tech militarization such as cameras on towers, motion detectors on the ground, and drones in the air are already ubiquitous, as are the many border patrol agents in their green and white SUVs. The wall just seems to be an enormous and costly PR stunt for Mr. Trump. And, of course, a very profitable boondoggle for the defense contractors. The emotional wall: Yesterday, we just happened to be at the tent by the wall when a Customs agent came over to bring another of our families across to the U.S. It wa...