Blog #11: The Wall Cut Down

Trump has announced over and over again that his goal is to build a wall and he has started to do so. This an effort to keep undocumented immigrants from crossing from Mexico to the United States. The wall has costed about 10 billion to build. Recently, people have been cutting through this wall with a tool that costs about $100. The effectiveness of the wall has not been great and quite frankly it probably won't work. Aside from cutting down the wall, people have also built ladders to climb over the wall. The wall really can't stop immigrants from coming.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

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