LETTER: Calling Trump’s bluff
US leader has been spending too much time and energy on border wall
It is inconceivable that the leader of a superpower has been spending so much time and energy on a border wall. Border control is a normal function of any government. It is more ironical since all parties are in favour of effective border control and a number of suggestions have been tabled to address it, but US President Donald Trump’s ego prevented him from signing since it would not have been a big enough “win” for him! The wall started off as an up to 9.1 m high concrete wall stretching over 3,200km. Due to pressure from the Democrats he now speaks of a steel fence that would only cover certain stretches of the border. Trump elevated a basic government function that would normally be attended to without great fanfare, to a central issue to stoke fear and mobilise his “tribe”. During his presidential campaign, he not only offended Mexico, who he said would pay for the wall, but also demonised immigrants as criminals, rapists and drug dealers. Against the background of various inv...
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