People record with their phones in front of the border wall Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, along the beach in Tijuana, Mexico. Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, U.S. President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Dr. Alma Arredono’s family lives less than a mile from the border near the Rio Grande River, and although she lives fifty miles away, visits them often. She explains why she believes in the border wall, how her family has been affected by living so close to the border, how dangerous it is where they live with random people entering their home and border patrol agents everywhere in the region, and should immigration reform be on the table now:
Chairwoman of the Texas Border Coalition’s Immigration and Border Security Committee, Monica Weisberg-Stewart, is a McAllen, Texas resident and businesswoman and is against the border wall. She speaks to the port of entries for immigrants and the other options available instead of focusing on a physical wall, the other solutions she suggests that could be more effective, what will happen if all of the funding is put into a border wall, and what affect illegal immigration has on business along the border: