Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
Release : 2017-08-22
Genre : Political Science
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The Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wall write by Vanda Felbab-Brown. This book was released on 2017-08-22. The Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States' relationship with Mexico, on which the U.S. relies for cooperation on security, environmental, agricultural, water-sharing, trade, and drug smuggling issues. The author uses her extensive on-the-ground experience in Mexico to illustrate the environmental and community disruption that the construction of a wall would cause, while arguing that the barrier would do nothing to stop illicit flows into the United States. She recalls personal interviews she has had with people living in border areas, including a woman whose family relies on remittances from the U.S., a teenager trying to get out of a local gang, and others.