The article ‘Bracing for the wall in South Texas’ describes
how the federal and state government are starting to slowly build a southern border wall
along the Texas border with Mexico. The Texas border with Mexico is currently
the largest part of the border without any fence. There is basically no fence
from El Paso all the way down to McAllen. The major problem with the fence is
that it ends up diving historic lands owned by many Texan families. Due to the flood
plain of the Rio Grande river the fence has to be placed significantly far back
from the actual border. The net cause of this is that many families that live
in Texas will end up on the south side of the border wall. The federal government
already owns some land along the border, where they can build the fence without
the process of eminent domain. They are starting to build the fence in these
areas as they work on acquiring the land many Texans own along the border to
build the fence. The current politicians and some media outlets are also
creating a false narrative of what is happening on the border. They make it
seem like there are stampedes of hundreds of migrants just waltzing into the
country, which is not true. They also haven’t even answered the question if
building walls in these rural parts of Texas would stop migration and drugs since
most of them come through legal points of entry. The government of Texas and
the United States are going to have to decide whether they should build the
wall on the state and federal land along the border. This issue of the border
wall is also very decisive in Texas politics with two sharply different sides
on the issue. This article is worth reading because it gives you major insight
on an issue that could affect the immigration policy in Texas for a long time
to come. It also gives you insight on how the Texas and Federal government are
trying to divide up the beautiful land along the Texas border.
