The Fake Security Crisis on the U.S. Border

The article “Castillo: Securitycrisis? That’s not the McAllen I know” evaluates the authors opinion if there is really a crisis going on in his home town of McAllen Texas. The author uses facts and his own beliefs about the city to evaluate if McAllen and the border in general are experiencing a crisis.

              The author writes his editorial for people that want to have a greater local understanding of what is going on in a border town without watching the sensationalist national news. The way the article is written helps the audience understand what is going on locally without all the unhelpful arguments that are going on in national politics. The author’s credibility comes from growing up in McAllen and using my facts in the piece to help support his claims of the city. While the author writes this work as an opinion piece, he heavily routes his experiences within facts to give the piece credibility. He was inspired to write this after seeing Trump in McAllen arguing that they need a border fence.

              The author argues that there is not a crisis going on at the McAllen border. The author uses many pieces of evidence to support the fact that the city is not within crisis. McAllen had no murders last year which is incredible for a city of 142,000 people. This makes McAllen one of the safest cities in the U.S., a sharp contradiction to the picture that Trump paints in national politics of murderers and drug dealers running along the street all day. The author argues that the presidents wild press conference of him being flanked by drugs, weapons, and stacks of cash is just s scare tactic and does not really represent what is going on in border towns.

              I agree with the author that a border fence is and ineffective way to protect the U.S. and that there is much better way to complete the task. The author successfully argues his point with evidence and his expenses of living on the border. The author uses his personal evidence and knowledge from friends who currency live on the border to craft his arguments in very specific evidence. He gives a great, local perspective of what is going on in a city on the border. He creates a point of view that locally focuses on the issues without all the arguing happening in national politics.

Informal Citation:

Opinion Article Title: “Castillo: Security crisis? That’s not the McAllen I know”

Author: Juan Castillo

Written: January 25^th, 2019