Border wall: Letters to the editor, March 26, 2019

Wall symbol of bigger problem

I am amazed by people that do not have any idea what the wall is all about, it's purpose and the ramifications of letting illegal immigrants enter the United States unchecked.

The wall is simply a deterrent; it's main purpose is to stop people from simply walking into the United States, and it's secondary purpose is to redirect people to points of entry. Anyone, if determined can get over / under any structure — your home fence will not stop a crook nor will a border wall stop them. Drones, cameras, sensors and adding more agents only serve one purpose and that is to try and catch people after they have entered into the United States, not before; only the wall does that.

The government is dropping off hundreds of illegal immigrants at bus depots every week as they do not have any space to house them. What will they do? Are they going to work in the fields where every year automation (machines) are replacing people. Are they going to drive the big rigs? The autonomous trucks are ready for the highways, we are just waiting for laws to change. Estimates are well over 100,000 jobs are gone. Look what is happening in all of the service industries, artificial intelligence and machine learning has advanced automation to the point that machines are now able to program and build themselves; this is what we should be talking about; if you do not have a skill or are not able or willing to get retraining, guess where your going to be in five years.

At one time we thought we could absorb millions of people a year; we now have 1 million legal immigrants that enter the country every year and we guess at 500,000 to 1 million undocumented people enter the United States yearly.

To me, the solution is obvious: we must restrict immigration to only the highly qualified people who can make an impact on the U.S. economy. Create welfare centers in each of the impoverished countries in the Western Hemisphere; the cost approximately ,would be $50 billion to $100 billion a year, which we will have to fund.

We as a nation must realize that 50 percent of our population is going to be out of work in 10 years, so we must set up an entirely new system to be able to support these people with housing, food and all the essentials for human dignity and life.

Don't take my word for it — do your own research, think about both the near and not so near future.

Gentrification just greed, immoral

The issue of “Gentrification “ moves along as an innocuous business as usual, laissez-faire capitalist, thought to be moral, but when digested, a degenerate plan.

My guess is, who gives a damn about the insidious attack on poor people and pluralistic ethnic cultures, to wit: the Mission District in San Fran 2.0 and their future to survive in the modern era.

The displacement and, truth be told, the forceful taking of housing from the poor by greedy immoral values of landlords whose purpose, in corporate society, is to barricade “Los de abjo” ( the ones at the bottom ).

If one didn’t blink, one would almost believe, pause and triangulate the plan as a form of genocide. A plan or pogrom not unlike that used by the Nazis to relocate human beings where they are least likely to survive, a modern-day liquidation of humanity by virtue of “ survival of the fittest.” The social Darwinist ethic that fits neatly in the Republican playbook, which now has come to roost as Trump’s nationalist dogma. Trump’s nationalists cheer-on the silver lining; the “ winner take all” of an amoral ideology.