To the editor:
President Trump shut down parts of the federal government because he couldn’t get congressional funding for his wall. Mexico won’t pay either.
We can’t build a wall on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande across from Texas, and it can’t be done down the middle of the river either. So, the effect of building Trump’s wall is that we will be ceding the north bank of the Rio Grande to Mexico.
Walls are built to keep people out, but they’re also built to keep people in. Americans won’t be fishing or letting their cattle drink from the north bank anymore—and Trump wants Americans to pay for what amounts to ceding much of our border to Mexico.
Keith Ensminger, Merced, Calif.
