During class the video Adam ruins everything it focused on immigration and how the idea of building a wall in the Souther Border of Mexico and the United States is both a waste of money and time.As mentinoed in the video the wall would go through 2,000 miles of rough terrain that woulld have to go through rivers, villages casuing a lot of destruction and areas in which the wall might be harder to build in certain areas like around/through villages and rivers. If the wall is build it would be one of the most expensive and unecessary infrastructure in American History because as the video mentioned it would cost around $15-$25 billion dollars not to mention the cost to maintain the wall which would mean that generations that follow would need to pay for the wall too. [It is absurd that Americans who voted for the current President thought based on him saying that Mexico would pay for the wall but no it’s going to be Mexico its going to be Americans and their kids and so on and on. Why would the idea of building the wall that the current president mentioned and wants to make happen would result in Mexico pay.]
A wall through history has been from time to time been seen as not sucessful. Increasing security at he border as mentioned in the video will never stop immigration.You have to look at those around 27%-40% of undocumented immigrants that legally come throuhg passport control and overstayed visas through plane. For immigrants building a wall/reinforcing the border is not something that would stop immigrants from coming to the United States if they are fleeing for safety reasons it only means immigrants will struggle more to get here but it’s not worth not trying for them.
The video touched upon how the U.S Immigration Court System is a true caos because it is a underfunded court system you have only 57 immigration courts and around 489,000 cases. Meaning that judges can get fired if they are not going fast through cases causing people to not be fully heard. You have kids who have no representation in front of a judge. There are also the language barrier for immigrants who sometimes are given a translator but over the phone which means there are a lot miscommunication if they can’t fully hear. And it’s sad to know that people aren’t being represented or given an opprtunity to fight their case properly simply because they are immigrants.
I had previously watched these video and Adam really debunked a lot of myths for people who are for the wall and what that actually means in the future than what they actually want to happen. They want for immigrants to stop coming but building a wall is not quite the answer as mentioned in the video and deporting people just shows how cruel Americas can be to immigrants because Americans sell the United States as being a room for immmigrants to come and live the America but only when there is a need for workers is that idea sold but in any other way it is not. Only when the United States benefits from Americans are immigrants welcomed but when something bad is going in America especially the economy immigrants are used as scapegoats to be blamed.
Watching these video for the second time I had forgotten about how American citizens are also being deported. The video hiligthed and important statistic saying the around 20 thousand U.S Citizens have been deported since 2003 meaning that natural born citizens are deported too. America is deporting it’s own kind of people.
Eliminating the word “illegal” when refering to immigrants instead use undocumented. The word is used to dehumanize people lik using the word “alien” both are to refer to immigrants but those words in it’s own way are seem to make immmigrants feel less than Americans. But it’s sad to know that people are okay to call other people such degrading words to refer to them but they are still human and they shouldn’t be made to feel less than that
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