Friday, October 31, 2014
Border....
An event our government needs to be more seriously addressed towards is what we call a "border". I'm definitely against the efforts we are putting to this so called wall. I mean it's supposed to keep illegal immigrants and any kind of threat from the cartel out yet it's only 11 or so feet tall and ends... The fact that no one is even safe going to any part of Mexico without any kind of self protection from the cartel should show the government that we need to more about this. The fact they blow the situation off their shoulder pisses me off. Innocent children; boy or girl no matter the age, women, men, anyone for that matter are losing there lives or being tortured for thier pleasure or "to show they are loyal to themselves disgusts me. The fact that some police are working for them and say they can't control what's goes, the cartel might as well run Mexico since there is no kind of enforcement towards the crimes they commit. Also the border being a tool for them to smuggle drugs across should be another reason for them to add some kind of financial help to improve it. If I was in any kind of power through the government this would be at the top of my "to do list". Then the fact that we meaning president Obama and Central American leaders haven't discussed this issure since July is another problem and another reason why nothing is getting done. Yeah they say they put this budget aside for change and improvement but what has been done.... Nothing. Especially since when more than 47,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border in the U.S in the fiscal year that could be double in the next coming months is a major problem. Again I say children...not adults that know there ways around. Just imagine those numbers.
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Hey Marc! I liked your post, here's my thoughts on it.
I agree with our class mate Marc. He states that the "government needs to be more seriously addressed towards is what we call the "border"." I think he is right, he points out that Mexico has turned into a dangerous place where not even the police can be trusted. I think we can all agree that a vacation in a place with such a presence of the drug cartel doesn’t sound like a nice way to spend the summer. How ever if the point of the border is to keep out the “bad guys” and keep immigration under control we need to think again. The border is a complete joke! Who thinks that an incomplete 11 foot wall is a good border system? Not some one with a 12 foot ladder or a "coyote" that for a fee will smuggle you across the border. Marc talks about the fact that "more than 47,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border". I don't know if it’s more heart breaking that these children are wandering over here all by themselves or that things are so bad in Mexico that they feel the danger of crossing the border alone is worth it.
We spend a lot of time worrying about things overseas, which within reason is good, but we don't spend much time worrying about our own issues. I completely agree with Marc and I think especially as some one that lives so close to the border that more money, effort and thought is needed to go into it.
I really like the lack of fluff in this commentary and how to the point it is. I think another statistic like the example with the unaccompanied children would have strengthened the point. That statistic really pulled together and strengthened the last part of the writing as well as letting the author end on a strong point.
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