Walls

The poem ,written by Robert Frost, is about two neighbors who meet in spring every year to mend the stone wall that separates their farms. It illustrates how good fences make good neighbors, and how we can maintain long-lasting relations with neighbors by establishing such walls. Now the USA/Mexico Border Wall may have some relevant parts and some which are different.

History of the Wall

The Mexico–United States border (Spanish: frontera México–Estados Unidos) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east. The border traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from urban areas to deserts. The Mexico–United States border is the most frequently crossed border in the world,^[1][2][3] with approximately 990 million documented crossings annually.^[2][4] It is the tenth-longest border between two countries in the world.^[5]

Its impact to the citizen/country/world

The impact of the wall really affected both its people and countries, because it is somehow unfortunate to the Mexicans that they prefer to cross the border because they have a lot of opportunities and a large wage gap between USA and Mexico, but mostly Americans think that it's beneficial for them especially in their economy state because they believe that Mexicans are a drain on the economy the border is useful both countries to prevent conflicts. The border has an impact to the world because it is better to build borders than to create war.  

Its impact or contribution to human relationship

The wall was intended to reduce illegal immigrants from Mexico, crossing the border to USA, and some of Americans supported its idea because for them, it can help make their country safe and secured, but there are some that are against the wall and that they should open its borders and welcome foreigners into their country. For this reason, there had been conflicts between the two people of both countries and resulting into people to the part of racism in which they harass the legal immigrants and how they should go back into their country. Although the wall may had reduce the percentage of illegal immigrants, which means that the more immigrants that enter their country the wages of domestic unskilled workers decreases, but a study shows that "increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens low-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low-skilled workers", and because of this racism starts to spread and therefore turned a person to hate another person that had other qualities as them.

Relevance to "Good fences make great neighbors"

Robert Frost believes that neighbors should have fences between them, he thinks there should be separation in order to avoid conflict therefore peace is around. The height of the border doesn't matter as long as you have a good relationship with your neighbors. We all know that fences separate properties but it doesn't matter if you know how to handle good relationship with your neighbor. We can be friendly and respectful in terms of their own personality but we should focus on our security by building good fences to keep a distance from them. In USA's part it's good for them to create a wall because they want to be safe, and the good thing is that Mexico has no issue about the wall. They only cross the border illegally is because they don't have enough money.

Relevance to the poem, "Mending wall"

In the poem it dictates that both neighbors were good with each other despite their differences in what contents they have in their farm, and that they still respected and talked with each other. Just like the wall of the USA/Mexico, both countries still have a good relation with each other despite their differences in religion, beliefs, etc.... they still respected each other and even the wall itself and how they follow each other's rules and accepted each other even with a wall dividing them. A wall should never be a sign of ending one's relationship.