America’s president elect, Donald Trump, has announced in his latest speech that his proposal to build a wall between Mexico and America will go ahead as planned, and as he had promised in his election speeches. This wall will be built to stop illegal migrants of Mexico from entering the USA. He has also intimated that he will make Mexico pay for the cost of erecting such a wall. The money could come from the money these migrants make from their earnings while working in the country and remit to their families in Mexico. He has said that there are so many different forms in which Mexico will reimburse America for the cost of the wall.
This is not the first time that a wall has been built between two countries. Yonks ago, China built its great wall to stop invaders from plundering its country. America’s wall may probably be construed as segregation at the time when we are aiming for one world for all. Next he may want to build partitions in public places to separate whites from Muslims and blacks.This will amount to going back to the old days of segregation and apartheid. All the same, there is a lesson which could be learnt from this. India’s PM Narendra Modi should take a leaf out of Donald’s book and build such walls with its neighbouring countries to stop terrorists from infiltrating the land of Lord Rama, Krishna, Mahavira, Gandhi et al.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
