Tennessee echo opinions about the stupid and expensive Trumpzi border wall

Donald Trump claimed that the border wall would be covered in solar panels, “see-through,” anywhere from 30 to 65 feet tall, or any one of the ugly, useless and expensive prototypes he commissioned. But judging from the latest iteration of the stupid project, there is every indication that it was slapped together at the last minute using a gradient and Windows XP clip art. Crazy Trump is increasingly desperate to just get anything up that he can take a photo op with as soon as possible. Enter the “Steel Slat Barrier,” which is not a wall per se but a series of upright metal strips terminating in spikes, says Gizmoto's Tim McKay.

Make the stupid wall issue easy, says Tennessee- just invade Mexico and wall off Canada!

The ugly, ineffective, stupid and expensive useless Trump border wall

Much is being said about building a wall between us and Mexico. Donald Trump promised he would get Mexico to pay for it. 

Well he can: Let’s invade them — again. Remember the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848? That’s how we got (after annexing Texas) Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Nevada.

We may not have money for a wall, but we always have money for war. We take 10 miles from Mexico all across the border, put the POWs and refugees on old buses and send them south, and then burn everything. This will bring the Mexican army to meet our Army, creating a no-man’s-land. This free-fire zone will, effectively, be a wall.

Once this is done, we can look to our northern border and those pesky Canadians. Does anybody really know what they are doing up there? They have been undermining our currency for years with their Canadian quarters and nickels. Let’s put a stop to it with another wall. The northern wall would have to be pretty tall to keep those lumberjacks from building siege devices and trebuchets to unload bags of Canadian coins into our country. It will also stop those Sasquatches from freely roaming back and forth.

After that, let’s put a wall around Alaska to keep the Canadians and the Soviets from migrating. Remember the land bridge? It could come back.

A wall around the eastern coast is a no-brainer with the raft people and drug runners coming ashore at all hours of the day and night. For total wall security, the west coast will need a wall to keep seapeople from seeking a better life in this country.

The only thing that could go wrong with the Mexican invasion is what would we do if they surrendered?

John F. Youhouse, Clarksville

Tennessee echo opinion published in the Leaf Chronicle

Border wall won't help, it will only harm America

"The border wall is not only a waste of money, it will be largely ineffective. Most immigrants are “overstayers,” so they arrive in the country via legal means."

The wall will do nothing to stop this.

Another problem with the wall is that it will destroy the habitats of several endangered species as well as Native American historical sites. We have already destroyed enough of both of those things; we cannot allow it to continue.

This is not the way to put "America first." It will ruin so much of America that is already wonderful, removing important sites from our future generations.

Kasey Boatwright, Clarksville