Sacrificing Children to Pay for Mr. Trump’s Wall

Six-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid
was separated from her mother last week
at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility. - ProPublica 

Freedom’s price is high. It respects no national boundary and its fee continues to be paid every day.

Today, babies and children are paying the fee for their parents’ desire to be Americans.

Today and every day into the foreseeable future until Mr. Trump gets the funding for his “Wall”, we, the people of the United States, will permit the Trump administration to separate another 66 kids from their mothers and fathers. They will join some 2,500 already taken from their parents and held in U.S. concentration camps. There is no Trump administration program to restore the children to their parents.

Freedom’s High Price is once again being paid by the innocents… the babies. 

In the United States today: the powerless; the children; the babies are always on the short end of the stick.

The real question is whether the rest of us are willing to surrender our souls and squander our national heritage to let it continue that way.

Listen to children who’ve just been separated from their parents at the border - ProPublica

Trump Tariff Could Be Mega Opportunity... for Mexico

The solar array being assembled by a Chicago-based SoCore Energy, LLC,
outside of Carrizozo, New Mexico, is beginning to take shape. (Photo/Ray Dean)

Mr. Trump’s 30% tariff on solar panels is projected to hurt the U.S. solar industry to the tune of $2.5 billion and cost thousands of jobs. Here’s a run down on how the solar developers see the Trump tariff move.

Too bad for the U.S. solar entrepreneurs, U.S. workers and the industry’s customers.

Still, as a former marketing person, I smell a big opportunity brewing.

If I were Mexico I’d build a “wall” on the Mexican side of the border, but my “wall” would be made of solar panel arrays, built by the U.S. solar developers’ Mexican subsidiaries, employing Mexican workers and U.S. migrant workers, using relatively inexpensive, imported Chinese solar panels.

Then, I’d use the electricity to power Mexican communities and industrial centers, plus sell electricity to the U.S.

A man this month in Nogales, Ariz., talking to his daughter and her mother,
who were standing on the Mexican side of the border fence.
Credit Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press

Mr. Trump has a different wall in mind, of course. His wall is aimed at keeping poor, jobless brown-skinned people out of the U.S. and could cost as much as $70 billion.

The Mexican solar wall would accomplish that end, too, by providing thousands of people good paying jobs and cheap electricity to power their new homes, schools, hospitals and a plethora of supporting businesses.

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