Trump's false advertising routine for a Mexican border wall provides an apt excuse for lucrative militarisation schemes.
One of the ultimate functions of heavily fortified borders is to rally populations against a perceived enemy and thus redirect attention from national shortcomings and unsavoury behaviour - which in the case of the US happens to entail the wanton violation of other people's borders, both militarily and economically.
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