In the United States in 2016, Trump, as a non-traditional politician and with his unique Internet celebrity thinking, successfully reversed the situation, defeated Hillary Clinton, who was very popular, and became the United States**.
On January 20 of the following year, he delivered his inaugural address at the White House to the cheers of fans. As a populist figure, Trump immediately fulfilled his campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants from entering the United States.
Trump spent a lot of manpower and material resources to finally reluctantly build this wall. Today, however, the $70 billion "mega-project" has become a joke, as illegal immigrants can easily circumvent it for just $5.
So the question is, why is the U.S.-Mexico border wall being ridiculed as a laughing stock? The historical origins behind all this are food for thought. After the Mexican-American War, the United States occupied large swaths of Mexico and demarcated borders along latitude and longitude.
However, the lack of a natural barrier along the 1,900-mile border has kept the border open and unguarded.
But with the rise of the hippie movement in the United States, the Mexican drug industry flourished, and large quantities of drugs flowed into the United States across the border. To address this problem, major cities along the border have begun to adopt different forms of quarantine measures, even using scrap metal sheets left over from the Vietnam War to build quarantine facilities.
To address illegal immigration and cocaine smuggling, the U.S. Border Administration (CBA) launched a federal** deterrence and prevention strategy to build a 14-mile single-layer fence in the San Diego border area of California.
However, the project sparked opposition from local environmental groups, who feared that the metal residue would pollute the land and marine environment, so the state of California** eventually shelved the project.
However, that all changed on September 11, 2001, when the hijacking of airliners, the suicide attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and the 911 terrorist attacks that shocked the world made people realize the seriousness of security problems and gave people a new understanding of border protection.
In response to the challenges of terrorism and illegal immigration, the U.S. Congress passed the Security Fence Act in 2006, which began construction of new double-decker fences, additional checkpoints and lighting, and authorized the Department of Homeland Security to use modern equipment such as satellites and drones.
However, these measures did not work as expected, and instead gave rise to another criminal activity of illegal immigrants - smuggling. Today, with the constant influx of illegal immigrants, violent crime is increasing in various communities.
According to the U.S. federal constitution, as long as an illegal immigrant gives birth to a child in the United States, the baby will automatically receive U.S. citizenship, and his or her immediate family members will also receive legal status.
As a result, illegal stowaways can benefit enormously without any risk.
Below we will continue the topic of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, this proposal is not the first time that Trump has made it, but Trump, with his unique perspective, has given the border wall a higher symbolic meaning.
In his philosophy, the existence of borders means the existence of the state, and the rule of law is the cornerstone of the country's stability. Thus, the border wall is a symbol of American sovereignty and the rule of law.
Trump and his supporters believe that the root cause of illegal immigration and drug abuse is the opening of borders, so by building a border wall, it is possible to stop the inflow of illegal immigrants in the first place, and further improve the efficiency of controlling illegal immigration through law enforcement methods such as electronic identity verification.
Once Trump became the leader, he began to implement a policy of governance of illegal immigrants characterized by "zero tolerance".
The Federal** has adopted a multi-pronged approach to border control, including the construction of a border wall, increased supervision of staff and facilities, and the abolition of the deferred refoulement program for childhood arrivals, with the aim of eliminating attempts by illegal immigrants to use children as shields.
Trump has also used the National Guard to deal with caravans of migrants from Central America and plans to build more detention facilities for illegal immigrants. These moves are a clear violation of the open borders and loose immigration governance strategies advocated by Democrats and those on the left.
The issue of illegal immigration is highly morally sensitive in the United States, and as a result, there are two opposing factions within the United States over whether to build a border wall on a large scale.
1.In the United States, political correctness has taken root in the hearts of the people, and many people are sympathetic to illegal immigration, especially those at the top who think highly of themselves. They need to help illegal immigrants satisfy their moral desires and get more votes from voters.
Therefore, Trump's anti-immigration policy has undoubtedly cut off the political path of these hypocrites, who naturally want to vigorously oppose Trump's immigration policy. And the Americans who support the construction of the border wall are mainly whites, especially middle- and lower-class whites, from the southern border states where illegal immigrants are concentrated.
Lower-middle-class whites oppose immigration for the simple reason that immigrants take away their jobs and erode their welfare. 2.In the United States, political correctness has become a prevalence, and many people are sympathetic to illegal immigrants, especially those at the top who claim to be warriors of civilization and morality.
They need to help illegal immigrants satisfy their moral desires and get more votes from voters. Therefore, Trump's anti-immigration policies have undoubtedly blocked the political path of these hypocrites, and it is only natural that they will vigorously oppose Trump's immigration policies.
And the Americans who support the construction of the border wall are mainly whites, especially middle- and lower-class whites, from the southern border states where illegal immigrants are concentrated. Lower- and middle-class whites oppose immigration for the simple reason that immigrants take away their jobs and encroach on their welfare.
3.In the United States, political correctness has become a trend, and many Americans are sympathetic to illegal immigration, especially those at the top of the elite, who think highly of themselves.
They need to help illegal immigrants satisfy their moral desires and get more votes from voters. Therefore, Trump's anti-immigration policies have undoubtedly disrupted the political plans of these hypocrites, who naturally want to oppose Trump's immigration policies with all their might.
And the Americans who support the construction of the border wall are mainly whites, especially middle- and lower-class whites, from the southern border states where illegal immigrants are concentrated. Lower-middle-class whites oppose immigration for the simple reason that immigrants take away their jobs and erode their welfare.
4.In the United States, political correctness has taken root in the hearts of the people, and many Americans are sympathetic to illegal immigrants, especially those at the top who claim to be warriors of civilization and moral pacesetters.
They need to help illegal immigrants satisfy their moral desires and get more votes from voters. Therefore, Trump's anti-immigration policy has undoubtedly interrupted the political path of these hypocrites, who naturally want to oppose Trump's immigration policy with all their might.
And the Americans who support the construction of the border wall are mainly whites, especially middle- and lower-class whites, from the southern border states where illegal immigrants are concentrated. Lower- and middle-class whites oppose immigration for the simple reason that immigrants take away their jobs and encroach on their welfare.
Despite the split between support and opposition, Trump's election upset the balance and the border wall project was born. Trump believes that we need to build a wall about 1,600 kilometers long and connect the border walls that have been built by the states** before.
However, the progress of the wall construction process was slow, so Trump, in his capacity as a federal **, encouraged local and ** to participate in the construction of the border wall through an executive order.
In order to justify the wall-building operation, Trump pointed out that the influx of illegal immigrants stemmed from Mexico's negligence, and that the cost of the wall would be fully covered by Mexico**.
Of course, Trump's rhetoric is only to win the hearts and minds of the people, and Mexico is not a vassal of the United States and will not give up its sovereignty to pay for the United States. Therefore, Trump announced that he would "advance" money for the construction of the border wall, and then claim compensation from Mexico after the construction was completed.
While the project plan could be implemented by executive order, the budget could not pass congressional scrutiny. Throughout 2017, Congress did not allocate a penny to build the border wall, and Trump argued with Congress, leading to a shutdown of several federal departments and billions of dollars in economic damage.
In addition to the funding problem, Trump also faces another dilemma, which is what kind of border wall should be built.
Trump has always had border security at heart, and his original idea was to build the border wall into a solid concrete wall. However, due to budget constraints, the construction of the border wall continued to shrink and eventually turned into a "fence" that would allow the National Guard to see the situation on the other side.
Still, Trump insisted that there should be at most a space of about 20 centimeters wide between each pillar to prevent illegal immigrants from easily crossing through. He also required that the fence be regularly damaged and crash tested to ensure that it was strong enough to withstand the impact of a medium-sized passenger car.
After several years of arduous construction, by 2020, Trump had succeeded in building a 724-kilometer-long border wall. He proudly announced on Twitter that this marks a milestone breakthrough in his border defense cause and will bring about a fundamental improvement in law and order in the United States.
Is it true that four dollars change your destiny and become an American citizen, as Trump said, climbing over the border wall is like climbing to the sky? The answer, of course, is no. The border wall that Trump has worked so hard to build is in fact a flashy shell, a masterpiece of vanity engineering.
According to anti-Trump reports such as CNN, illegal immigrants can bypass this border wall in a variety of ways.
In the 80s, Mexican drug lords established several clandestine passages near the border. However, with the popularity of new drugs in the United States, the market for cocaine has gradually shrunk.
In order to expand their income**, drug dealers turned the channel for transporting drugs into a channel for smuggling, and started a business of smugglers. However, because these passages are controlled by drug dealers, there is not enough financial resources and power for ordinary people to dare not set foot in.
Therefore, they choose the easiest and cheapest way - circumventing the wall.
It turned out that the illegal immigrants easily climbed over the seemingly tall and mighty border wall by using ladders and other tools. By the time U.S. border agents arrived with police dogs, the migrants had already fled in the cars arranged by the smugglers.
The whole process is arranged by the head of the snake, including a special person to look at the wind, prepare the ladder, command the over, etc., forming a mature industrial chain. What's more, the fee for this process is quite cheap, at just $5 per person.
Trump's border wall has failed to achieve the desired effect and has instead become a mockery of his policies. The internal establishment took the opportunity to criticize his immigration policies and exaggerate their impact as a threat to the American nation.
The move sparked an anti-Trump wave. In 2020, Trump, who sought re-election, suffered a defeat, and Biden, the representative of the establishment, was successfully elected.
As the leader of the American elite, Biden immediately dismantled Trump-era policies, including the border wall. The border wall became a symbol of the will of the establishment to liquidate Trump.
Biden signed the ** order, canceling the contract for the border wall and saying that taxpayer money would no longer be used for this meaningless project. Today, the border wall is covered with graffiti by avant-garde artists and has become a place for Trump supporters to pay tribute to the Trump era.
The border wall, once hailed as a mega-project, is now only a piece of chicken feathers.
We often say that it's the small details that tell the big picture. Although Trump's border wall has become a laughing stock after dinner, it also reveals that the deep-seated contradictions within the United States have reached the point where they cannot be reconciled.
For the sake of personal interests and votes, elite politicians in the United States are obsessed with political correctness and deliberately create a sense of racial difference, regardless of the actual situation. They elevate the status of Latinos and African-Americans, but turn a blind eye to the political demands of Asians, and forcibly include minorities and other genders, both in literary and artistic works and in everyday life.
However, the excessive pursuit of political correctness is actually a challenge to traditional American values. Americans are obsessed with the law of the jungle and the law of the jungle, and the elites' excessive preference for minorities naturally harms the interests of whites, especially those in the middle and lower classes, who regard themselves as the pride of the sky.
When their interests are violated, they will seek their own people. As a result, right-wing political groups began to emerge, and Trump, Pompeo and others also began to become popular.
Right-wing political groups are adept at using social networking to indirectly target young people in order to get more votes and climb to the top. However, the political ideas of these right-wing politicians do not apply to the current society, and their outrageous practices often disappoint voters.
For example, Trump's anti-intellectual performance during the epidemic has caused the United States to have its epidemic prevention efforts in a difficult situation. In response, voters have no choice but to choose the establishment politicians they loathe.
Once establishment politicians return to power, these elites will be keen to reverse the policies of their predecessors and engage in large-scale liquidation operations, leading to capricious US policies and wasting large amounts of taxpayer money.
In the long run, American politics has fallen into a vicious circle, and development has naturally come to a standstill.
The arrogance of the United States has become the root of its own national problems. Political correctness has in turn hurt the United States itself. Looking at the literature, we can see that the reason behind Trump's promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is the high self-esteem of the United States and the influence of political correctness.
This wall separates not only two countries, but also two worlds.