While all the focus here in the United States is on the wall Trump is just dying to build, the UK is a few steps ahead (or behind, really, if we’re thinking rationally) when it comes to blocking out the “undesirables.”
The refugee crisis is still going strong across the Atlantic, though reports of it may have died down quite a bit here as we’ve become wrapped up in more pressing domestic issues as our Presidential election date nears (and as we play right into the internationally held opinion that we are a self-obsessed nation of narcissists…? No, that can’t be right.) Jokes aside, it could provide some valuable insight to compare our current situation to that of the UK, which is currently in the beginning stages of actually building a wall to keep out any “wandering” refugees from the neighboring French port town of Calais. Many of the comments quoted in this article from The Guardian eerily mirror the viewpoints of many Americans. I am curious to see the true effect that this wall will have and if the results will show themselves soon enough to serve as an example of what not to do (and hopefully sway some American opinions on the topic).
-Michelle
