Echo from the Texas border that Mexico was going to pay for: Another local voice

Immigration reform will work better than a border wall: An echo opinion letter published in the Texas, El Paso Times.

This photograph and hundreds like it are the evil legacy of Donald Trump's border wall that "Mexico would pay for".  He said to his cult followers, "Who will pay for the wall?  Who?" Putting people in cages is a humanitarian degradation attributed to the Trumpzi cultists and their unfounded hysteria about how innocent immigrants are somehow capable of bringing crime into the US.  Mexico will never pay for an evil wall but Donald Trump has created heinous human cages, instead.  

Over the past 10 years, violent crime rates have not changed in El Paso because of the border wall; however, other minor crimes have decreased thanks to task forces initiated by the El Paso Police Department. Since 2000, undocumented immigration has decreased by 20 percent while the vast majority of drugs entering this country has been through ports of entry. 

Building a wall won’t stop individuals from trying to cross undocumented, won’t deter crime from happening on the Mexican side of the border, and won’t stop drugs from entering our country.

Rather than addressing the root cause of our problems, Donald Trump’s turned to declaring a national emergency to build a wall that he hopes will stop undocumented immigrants and drugs from entering our country. Trump’s wall will not prove to be successful; therefore, I believe a more successful approach is reforming our existing immigration policies and increasing the number of officers at our ports of entry to stop drugs from entering. 

If we spent the billions of dollars for the proposed wall on revising our immigration policies and adding more technology and agents at our ports of entry then we might see a decrease in our country’s opioid and drug epidemic as well as undocumented immigrants who risk their lives to live the “American Dream.”

Sylvia Garcia  

Anthony, Texas