Is the American President going to select his wonderful wall for Christmas? Hopeful contractors have erected eight samples of wall in San Diego, CA for his decision. All he has to do is pick his favourite. His Twitter followers will likely be the first to know which wall he prefers.
But how he is going to get Congress to authorize the billion dollars he needs for it, is a question begging an answer. The likelihood of Mexico paying a peso for this wall is in the range between “Never” and “In your ear, Donald!”
But they have a few engineering problems to be faced in putting up this wall. Frankly there are visitors from Mexico who might be better at building tunnels than Americans are at building walls. And these particular visitors might not be bearing frankincense and myrrh.
And we hope the new engineers putting up Mr. Trump’s wall are smarter than the ones we hear about who put up George W. Bush’s wall at El Paso, Texas. It seems George W’s geniuses left an American El Paso golf course on the wrong side of that strip of wall.
How you build a wall down the middle of the Rio Grande, is just one of the more interesting questions to be answered. They will not welcome it on the Mexican side of the river. If you put it on the American side, you will be cutting cattle off from their water.
This is not as simple as something such as the Panama Canal. Did you know that when they started to dig the canal, they thought they just needed a trench across the Isthmus of Panama? It was not until the French realized that it needed locks at either end that the Americans bought in and did the heavy digging.
While Mr. Trump is busy deciding which of the walls he prefers, Congress is still struggling with wanting to do something about the Dreamers. These are the almost 800,000 who registered for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) who are in limbo waiting for the shoe to drop. Why the fate of these people should be tied to Trump’s wall is unconscionable.
Mind you, we have determined over this year that Donald Trump is a man without a soul. Why would you assume anyone who backs him has one?
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