The border wall is a proposed
expansion of the current wall that is in between the border of United States
and Mexico. Trump has yet to even pick the materials he would be using or
allocate budgets or give an estimate of when it will be done. So to say it is
in any position of getting done would be a lie.
PragmatismWhat was first being proposed was an
entire wall across the US-Mexico border but as many people realized that is not
feasible. There is a Rio Grande river and many mountains. Instead of delivering
on a wall he has decided to make a concession. Only wanting half of the
US-Mexico border filled with a wall. The thing is that a fence already exists
but for some reason Trump would like to build a wall. Let’s say the wall was
built what would that actually do? Trump has failed to deliver evidence to
provide what the border wall can help so since he hasn't it can be said that it
would be impractical. My argument revolves around if evidence was given to how
effective the wall was it would only help Trump provide a better position for
his proposal but Trump cannot which means it is impractical and by extension
not worth doing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46824649
EffectivenessSince Trump failed to deliver what the border wall would actually reduce. I will be
assuming this and I think I am fair with these assumptions. I am guessing the
border wall would help stop undocumented immigrants, drugs and are bad for the
economy.
Firstly, undocumented immigrants are
reportedly travelling across the border in record lows. The source below states
as of 2016 there are only 5.4 million unauthorized immigrants which fell from
2005 which had the number at 6.9 million. From that source we can see with the
current use of the border wall there is less and less unauthorized immigration
from Mexico to the United States which means the current use is effective so
the burden is on the instigator to provide how Trump’s wall would be more
effective.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/03/what-we-know-about-illegal-immigration-from-mexico/
Secondly drugs are smuggled in using
legal ports of entry. This is sourced by the National Drug Threat Assessment.
If it wasn’t clear already Trump has made no mention of improving the legal
ports and since it wouldn’t be intrinsic to a border wall therefore another problem
a Trump proposed border wall will not fix.
http://time.com/5497260/donald-trump-border-wall-fact-check/ Click here if you don't want to find it in the article “
National Drug
Threat Assessment”
Thirdly the bad for economy point.
The labour market doesn't have a fixed number. This can be supported by the
second source which states that in 8th of January 2019 there was 6.8 million
job openings which increased in 12th of February which had 7.3 million. This
number then increased to 7.5 million in 15th March which then decreased to 7.08
million. This clearly shows there is no fixed rate of jobs and with the demand
for Jobs needing to be taken increasing it is only reasonable to accept
immigrants in order to fill gaps in the market. A case could be made to say
that have Americans take that job but by looking at the 3rd source below it
states as of March 2019 there is 6.2 million Americans that can fill the job
opportunities. The problem of course is that the job opportunities number is
higher than the number who are unemployed in the US which means even if every
single unemployed American filled those jobs there will still be a need for
more employees to fill gaps in the market. This would of course mean immigrants
are required so that argument falls flat as well.
https://theconversation.com/is-immigration-bad-for-the-economy-4-essential-reads-99001 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-offers https://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/us/
Over to you
Do you?
Does BrotherDThomas support the border wall?
Seems like the opposite of WisdomofAges.
https://www.debateart.com/debates/972
Just read what he says
lols
I have heard of him but could you explain the joke?
It's like BrotherDThomas accepts this debate...
lol