Will a wall truly help the US?

[hershel_layton]

Azuren said:

pastro243 said:

It's very different to say that most Mexicans (or almost any country) are not happy with the way their country is doing than to say they want the US to take over it. There are more than 100 million Mexicans, they have a good economy and good infrastructure in general, and since we are going by guesstimates, I would bet the number of Mexicans who would want something like that is close to nonexistant.

 

Besides there is no reason for the US to do it, Mexico is one of your biggest trading partners and doing something hostile to them would just damage heavily both countries. I live in Chile and we have ilegal inmigration problems with Peruvians and Bolivians and, now more recently, with Colombians. Still, with all the trouble that comes from it, building a wall and taking hostile actions against them would result in bad relationships and worse consecuences.

This isn't Iraq or any small country in the middle East, Mexico is a big country, with a huge population and a growing economy, any agression towards them would be simply dumb

You know what happens to countries when they are freed from the grips of tyranny and left to their own devices? They do it again. Case in point, Iraq.

 

And there are plenty of reasons not to do something. But if you're going to look for reasons not to do something all day long, you'll never get anything done. And it may be one of the biggest trading partners to the United States, but it's just one of the many cases where America imports more than they export (which means that while there's a lot of trade going on, the US is losing on it).

Honestly, it always seems silly when people so far away from the problem think they know the answers on how to deal with it. You're not in the United States, Mexico, or even North America. You draw comparisons based on immigration in your own country when the similarities end at "there's illegal immgration". Does everyone in Mexico want to move to America? No. Does the Mexican government want to be part of America? No.

Does something need to be done about their rampant corruption and drug trade?

 

Good point. Unfortunate people treat this as a black/white issue