Yesterday I read this article by 
The article took me by surprise. The fear and anger behind this article shocked me. The author outlined her 7 reasons why she's not for "closed borders". I get the feeling that what Americans have been told about this wall has been picked up in the wrong way.
As a non-American, the view from outside looking in is quite different. The whole reason for the block on immigration, in my view, is to do with money more than immigrants causing harm. The more people that pay little or no taxes, the more pressure is on services that rely on tax money to exist. If you pay no tax you still get to use the roads, the schools, the hospitals and other services that your tax dollars pay for. Put simply, if the tax that you pay does not cover the services that you use, the service will suffer. The services that we depend on depend on the taxpayer. The welfare that people receive depends on the taxpayer so the more people depending on that welfare means other services suffer.
The "wall"
In Austrailia, Canada and pretty much any country where people go to seek better-paid work, you will be screened for your abilities and your commitment to working in a certain field. If you are not fit to work or are seen to be going to that country because the welfare is better you will not be given a visa to enter. The vast amount of countries, with this ethos, find that by making sure people are coming to their country to work they will pay their way in society. The "wall" is not to keep out people out and prevent them from hurting you, it's to make sure that people that come to your country are coming for the right reasons, economically. Think about it rationally instead of fearfully. Think about going to a football game. You buy your tickets and you enter through a gate. No ticket, No entry. If you had no walls around the stadium it would be a free for all.
What Donald Trump is trying to do is make sure that the people that want to come to America are coming for the right reasons. If the American people want to host hundreds of thousands of refugees, by all means do, but don't piss and moan when your taxes go up and up. If America wants to see a stop to the refugee crisis stop the war that you are fueling.
