The Proposed Texan Wall

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.