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I completely agree with what you are saying about us turning 18 and not just magically turning into adults and knowing how to get registered to vote. If my parents would have never helped me get registered I probably would have not even known or would have been too lazy to figure out how to get registered and vote. We should definitely encourage more people to vote and help younger first-time voters learn the process of what you have to do in order to be able to vote. Most people are 18 when they graduate from their senior year from high school and I believe that not one class ever told me to go out and vote or how to even register for it. If we would show younger generations this in school then maybe we would have a better voter outcome. Also, I believe that what you mentioned about people being pre-registered to vote with a valid I.D. is a great idea. In fact, that would help a lot with the outcome of people going out and voting. I do agree with you that maybe for some reason the system does not work like this because of security purposes. If the system worked like this maybe it would not be so up to date or even secure. I do completely agree with your idea and believe that it would achieve what we are looking for and that is more people going out and voting.

https://redwhiteandbluegovt.blogspot.com/2018/11/not-enough-voters.html?showComment=1542849755013#c1105614119167047175

We should build a wall between the United States and Mexico

Being a Latin American citizen I find it completely disrespectful that Trump wants to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. Can we also acknowledge the fact that there is already indeed some sort of fence that separates the US from Mexico. It is not as elaborate as the one that Trump wants to build but it gets its job done. I do not even believe that the wall is being built as a security precaution. The wall will not significantly reduce any real violence such as homicides and other very violent crimes in the US. The real issue that we have with illegal immigrants is not necessarily because they are crossing the border, it is because people are using their visa’s wrong. If you look at it from the economic point of view this wall will not even really affect more US citizens being able to get jobs. Usually, the jobs that these Mexican workers are taking are not even jobs that American citizens would like to have. Also, they are extremely low wages. Even if we look at it in terms of drug smuggling this will not stop it either. Drug smugglers have been bringing in drugs through several tunnels. Also, it is absurd to believe that we could actually build a wall between Mexico and the US. There are many sections where the wall could not physically be built. If we believe that we should be spending all of that money on a wall,l that is being built as something esthetic than actually fixing real and bigger problems then that is just very sad. There are way bigger issues that would actually help the US advance and grow.