Building A Bigger Wall

PRESIDENT TRUMP intends to abscond with three point eight billion more dollars from the military budget, if he has not already done so, for the purpose of partially funding his great wall of futility. This would be added to the eleven billion he has already made off with, a sum which, considering the president's demonstrated priorities, will be taken from funds previously allocated for veteran's assistance and health support services. At a cost of over twenty million per mile, the entire twelve hundred mile length of the Mexican-American border will be heavily, futilely fortified by the year twenty one twenty, at a cost no greater than several trillion dollars. New construction is actually taking place more than a half mile north of the Rio Grande, giving Mexico a rare opportunity to occupy a tiny fraction of the territory stolen from them by the Norde Americano Yankee imperialists under the leadership of President James K. Polk, in 1846-1848, during the great trumped up war for American expansion. Trump intends to patrol the border on both sides of the wall, which he could just as easily do were the massive structure nothing more than a chain link fence, or strand of brightly colored rope. Either he hasn't thought of this, he doesn't care, or nobody has bothered to tell him. What with the constant turnover and chaos within the Trump administration, and the documented fact that nobody has been able to educate the president on the basics of geography, either scenario is possible. The construction is bringing chaos and hardship to hundreds of landowners, and engendering lawsuits initiated by landowners whose land they would prefer not be bifurcated, and whose livelihoods they wish to defend. People with houses near the wall would prefer, they say, that security lighting not inundate their homes at night. A wasteland is being created between river and wall. Another fact worthy of consideration, but of no consequence to Trump or to those who support him and his inane wall is that migratory routes of hundreds of animal species are being cut off, isolating breeding groups, threatening them with eventual extinction. What was formerly a pleasant and profitable golf course has gone bankrupt, its acreage returned to its natural state. There is one consolation. Parts of the new construction, which consist of vertical metal slats, are being taken advantage of by ingenious Mexican and American children, who, merely by inserting a makeshift crossbar between slats, can install an international teeter totter, thus improving international relations through cultural exchange. Folks can scramble up and over the wall, and picnic between river and wall, on the American side, while observing a natural, desert landscape, which might contribute to natural history knowledge. This could yield some value, to everyone but Trump and his supporters.