Mexico--United States barrier has been a major controversial topic in America. According to El Paso Times, president Donald Trump has mentioned El Paso to justify his wall barrier policy. He states, “The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our Nation's most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities.”
In the article “Violent crime in El Paso before and after border fence”John Shjarback, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Victor Manjarrez, associate director of the Center for Law and Human Behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso stated that the crime rate of El Paso has drastically decreased since 1995. However, it has not changed the crime rate since 2008 when the border wall was rebuilt. Therefore, the border wall cannot be the primary solution to reduce the crime rate in today’s El Paso.
   I agree with the previous mentioned opinions because as mentioned in the articles, local, county, and federal, such as U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have contributed to reducing the city’s violent crime rate by almost 500 percent over last few decades. This number shows that it is possible to reduce the crime rate without the wall. It is a fact that the border wall has been protecting the United States, but the crime rate has not changed. Therefore, president Trump and the government should consider another way to prove how much the border wall is essential to the United States of America.