Anna Fonseca

I feel very strongly about this topic and agree with what your discussing. It's truly a disgrace that our president is openly fighting for immigrants to leave our country. Maybe he could help people with unfortunate situations in different countries to find a way to be legal with a law that allows people to enter if they meet a certain criteria, maybe make the process easier and the rules greater so that people did not feel the need to have to illegally enter our country. The people of America have been fighting for an open mind on many topics for years and I feel that creating a wall for travel verses creating a new law is going to create a divide in peoples minds. Instead of being innovative and creating a united nation Trump is letting division be the new face of America.

U.S. National Government and why it's needed

Why do we need U.S. National Government? Yes, some may think it's an outdated system but all things need structure to achieve great success. America needed structure 240 years ago and that first attempt at structure was known as the Articles of Confederation which was effective for nine years. In those years the Articles of Confederation defined the powers of the federal government and the 13 states. This was a big achievement for the U.S. but there were still countless inconsistencies which created a weak federal government; no regulation on trade or levied taxes, tariff wars, debt, etc. So the states drafted the U.S. Constitution which allowed even more structure and has continued to be a "living document" throughout the last 200 years. I think the failure of the Articles of confederation is a perfect example of why we desperately need a strong National Government. Without it we would could have no coin money, war without regulation, no control over conducting foreign relations, and improper foreign interstate trade. It's also a privilege that the Constitution can be amended as times change and generations evolve all because we have a strong National Government in place.