THE GREAT
WALL OF TRUMP
Increasing agreement with TRUMP on building the Great Wall.
Before the United States presidential inauguration
ceremony, Donald TRUMP declared he plans to build and reinforce the Great Wall
between the frontier of the US and Mexico which measures about 1600 km. Now he
is in power, and he is able to carry out this project. Someone calls it ‘the
Great Wall of Trump’.
The main reason why he decided to build
the Big Wall is because he thinks that the Mexicans have grabbed the jobs which
should belong to the Americans. Due to massive immigration in the US this has
already threatened the homeland security.
Nevertheless, Trump is not the first
person who wants to build the wall. Firstly, there was
a fence measuring about 1000 km long, built when BUSH was president of the US
in 2005 to prevent illegal immigrates from entering the country. Secondly, let
us look at the other side of the earth. In China, the Great Wall was to protect
the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various
nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Thirdly, when we look back to the origin
of democracy, in Europe most people think it is impossible to find such a thing here,
but unfortunately there really exists some walls in Ceuta and Melilla between
Spain and Morocco. They aim to prevent the illegal immigration from the
frontier into the European area and they are sometimes in conflict with each
other.
After his
first proclamation of this idea, he has caught everyone’s eye. People think he
is an unprecedented absurd president of the United States, because this country,
as we know, is famous for it’s liberty and equality. But the President’s Wall
speech can be considered as a form of discrimination. Even if a part of US
citizens is against this project, he still promised to complete it after his
inauguration to protect this country. Not only do Americans not agree with this,
but also in Europe, particularly European leaders who have declared that
ethical protectionism is not able to function nowadays, and that globalization
is the trend all over the world.
On the
other hand, there are many citizens who choose to support their president. For
some American blue collar workers, the illegal immigrates have stolen their jobs
because they accept lower wages. Moreover, more and more Americans are concerned
that the illegal immigrante problem also leads to crimes such as robbery,
violation and illegal drugs. Just as the President of the United States said,
some countries, especially Mexico, send many people with bad behaviors to their
country and those immigrantes are likely to commit crime. That is the reason
why he plans to build and reinforce the Great Wall between the frontier of the
US and Mexico, so as to help protect the homeland.
Nowadays,
there are many successive wars in certain areas, so we cannot avoid the
emergence of refugees, but how should we handle this tough problem is still a
big challenge all over the world.
Shiming ZHANG
Shuze HE
Resources:
1. http://education.francetv.fr/matiere/actualite/ce1/video/pourquoi-trump-veut-il-construire-un-mur-entre-les-etats-unis-et-le-mexique
2. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2179808/donald-trump-wall-mexico-border-cost-pay/
