Sunday, September 17, 2017

Trump's Wall

It will be Our Wall since Trump knows that Mexico will NOT pay for the construction. We all love his good intentions and desire to make America safer but his methods are challenging laws and court decisions that we fought for throughout our history. Now we are a divided country with good citizens fighting over issues all the time. Since most Americans only vote once every 4 years between those times we protest. We fight and disagree meanwhile we are all the same in our quest for fairness, a safe place to live and a decent wage to support our lifestyles and families. Immigrants are desperate for that universal quest too. People are being displaced from their home countries now more than ever fleeing some sort of persecution from unfair lawless places. We need a better solution.
My Trump supporting friend from Texas wants to know why I am always bashing Trump. He loves Trump’s brashness and fighting spirit to “clean the swamp” that in his words America has become. I would like to give us a bit more credit than that.  The world needs to handle problems in a more intelligent way than just threatening everyone with the size of their weapons. Enough with the destructive wars. We learned more about wars in social studies class than anything else in our fragile beautiful earth.
At our southern border Latinos are racing to America to flee their terrible lawless governments.  Women are being abused and murdered, children are growing up to a drug selling culture and men have limited job opportunities. Everyone has a gun or a machete and are not afraid to use it. We should spend the money on safe places for good Hispanics to live in their own countries. The violence against women is so horrible that they call it Femicide.
Honduras has grown to be the most dangerous place to be a woman. It is only 2,000 miles from Texas. They are now crashing our borders to get away from the violence just like people are fleeing persecution in the Middle East all over Europe. Even the beauty queen from Honduras and her sister was gunned down. Honduras is a tropical land with churches everywhere but no one seems to have any religious ethics. The drug fueled business has turned the country into a war zone. Fathers and sons are being killed especially if they reject the drug business. Women who don’t want to be raped or who shield their families from drugs are abused and killed. One woman is murdered there every 16 hours in a nation that is smaller than Ohio. That is one of the highest Femicide rates in the world.
It is a sexist machismo culture filled with weapons everywhere and gang violence. The government cannot cope with the violence. The children have gotten used to all the murder. A man’s power is measured in bullets there. They abuse and physically harm their own wives. Despite souring rates of Femicide, rapes and domestic violence an estimated 95% of these crimes go totally unpunished. Women can get restraining orders but the document is only as powerful as the backing of the courts to enforce the paper. They don’t. Filing a complaint can take weeks and the violence is so great that the police have to investigate a abusive man with a military backup.
Trump is right to crackdown on illegal gun violence and drugs and gangs trickling over into our country but throwing them back over a wall is not the answer. In Honduras 1 in every 4 pregnancies are with teen age girls 15 years old or younger. Most girls don’t get any kind of sexual education there. The morning after pill is outlawed and an abortion can land you in prison. This is why women fought for years to have places like Planned Parenthood in our country. Fear is a fact of life for women and their children yet the government refuses to provide shelters or safe houses for them. In America we fought to have social services for families in need. Trump wants to cut that budget too.
Children are watching their mothers being brutally raped and beaten. The kids are forced to have brothers and sisters born from a violent raping man that won’t spend even a day in prison. If you had to live this way you would walk the 2,000 miles to the possibility of living in America too. 82% of asylum seekers to America from Honduras are female. Trump’s chanting to build a wall is not the answer. He signed an executive order cutting the number of refugees into America in half. The abuse of women and children and families is a worldwide problem.
The answer is not an expensive wall but to create jobs to meet these desperate people at the border and send them back to international supported organizations that will provide help for the maimed physically and emotionally damaged people. Increase security through the United Nations Military to crack down on gang violence, drug warfare and business and prosecute criminals with solid jail time in whatever country they came from. If a countries government fails to support a safe life for their citizens it is time for the rest of the world to support peace and prosperity everywhere. Stop with the walls and bombs and weapons. That solves nothing for no one!

  


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