On Tuesday, February 22nd, Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba of the LA Times posted an article with an interesting title - What the U.S. really needs is a wall to keep the immigrants in. I was immediately intrigued and decided this is the article I would write about.
In this article, Sciubba voices her opinion on Trump's alleged "wall" between the United States and Mexico to keep immigrants out. She starts the article off by stating that it's been proven that there aren't nearly as many immigrants coming in as there once was. She states that to "deliver the economic growth Trump has promised, the U.S. will need producers and consumers, and there won't be enough of them without immigration." I whole-heartedly agree with her.
Assuming she wrote this article towards supporters of the wall/Trump, she continues to state all the positive benefits that the immigrants bring to the U.S. - for one, they will take jobs in the agricultural field of work and in the construction field that Americans don't want to do. This affects the economy as a whole. Not to mention the cost of the wall. It's going to cost America greatly to build this border and even then, who is going to build it? If immigrants aren't going to be allowed in the U.S. and they are the only ones who take those kinds of jobs, Trump will have to overpay people to get them to build it.
Personally, I think the wall is a completely unnecessary waste of money. Surely the United States of America doesn't need to actually build a wall. I believe the U.S. needs immigrants and there are other ways to go about illegal/legal immigration issues. This country is known for attracting all kinds of immigrants for all kinds of reasons and as Sciubba states, they "benefit the country in a demographic, economic and social way."
