Blog Stage Three: Substantial Critical An Editorial Or Commentary From A National Newspaper

   On Thursday, January 11, 2018, CNN published an article about “The answer toborder security is technology, not wall”. Henry Cuellar, the author insisted that building a physical wall would be ineffective to reduce the population of the people who are undocumented, because they will continue to bring illegal drugs to cross the border into the United States. Therefore, to solve this problem, instead of setting a wall, the government should increase the use of the modern technology to secure it such as cameras, fixed towers and aerial and underground sensors. Along with Henry Cuellar, I totally agree with him because of the two reasons. First of all, it is impossible to stop all the undocumented people from the Mexico by building a wall. Even though the United States set up the wall between the Mexico and the United states, the people will still come to the United States to find another way. Therefore, using the modern technology will be more effective to the United States to be secure. Second of all, building a wall is not a simple solution that the United States government can decide. It contains the relationship between America and Mexico. Thus, if United States decide to make a wall between the Mexico, it is possible to negatively affect the relationship as a trade partner. To solve this problem with respect to Mexico, the government should remedy with Mexico government: strengthen the Mexican law enforcement and US Border Patrol coordinate interdiction efforts, perform joint patrols, respond to border violence and pursue prosecution of criminals of transnational criminal organizations. All things considered, I believe that the United States should use the modern technology to certainly reduce the number of undocumented people more but maintain the good relationship with Mexico.