Mexican Border Vs Berlin Wall

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The Mexican border and the Berlin wall have enough similarities based on the patrolling units creating a horrible view of it in the eyes of the people, a physical structure that uses tax payers good money, and the political opposing views on each side. First to account for the patrolling units creating a horrible view on the border is caused by a “U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man who had driven through a West Texas checkpoint without stopping for inspection, Customs and Border Protection said Friday” (Janzen). In comparison with Germany, “behind the wall on the East German side was a so-called “Death Strip”: a gauntlet of soft sand (to show footprints), floodlights, vicious dogs, trip-wire machine guns and patrolling soldiers …show more content…
Both Germany and the United States keep armed guards on their borders for in one case protection and another being to service control and showing the power they have over what is going on in that area. Second, the take on the physical structure must be viewed. In Germany erected in 1961, “a 12-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide mass of reinforced concrete was topped with an enormous pipe that made climbing over nearly impossible” (Berlin). While on the U.S.- Mexican border the people “… have been living in the shadow of a 14-foot-high (four meters) steel wall for the past decade” (Bowden). If even just twelve feet of wall was enough to stop many people from escaping East Germany what even is the necessity of having the Mexican border’s wall be fourteen feet high. There is less fear of death on the Mexican border compared to the escape in Germany in 1961, so why in the 21st century is the wall separating America the free and Mexico larger than that of East and West Germany? For the fear of illegal drugs? Illegal immigrants? No, for the realization that as American everything must be done better than other
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