TheScotchEngineer

What's your most interesting case (whether they got in or not)?

Thinking out loud, but what specifically could be unethical about building a border wall? I'd be curious to hear what you'd specifically reference in a refusal to work on such a project?

I'm from the UK, so we've got the English Channel that unfortunately many people die trying to cross every year - it certainly makes things a lot harder for illegal immigrants trying to enter. We've got all sorts of challenges over here around crossing points between UK/France...some including who pays for fencing/migrant camps for example, but I struggle to see what is unethical about building a border wall to try and control who is crossing.

The biggest aspects I can see are:

1) waste of money argument which is not clearly unethical unless bribery/corruption is involved (there is always going to be a 'money could be better spent elsewhere', see the energy debate or practically any allocation of public funding!).

2) environmental damage / overall negative impact to the world. For most human developments, there is going to be an environmental cost (in addition to other costs). If there is no benefit attributable to the development, then it'll be judged as a net negative to the world. Ultimately then, the root cause of believing a project to be unethical is simply that one would not believe that the project benefits outweigh the costs and therefore makes the world a worse place.

So maybe it's a really a case of one person believing in the benefits/outcome of the project versus someone who doesn't. OP clearly believes the potential benefits are realisable i.e. help CBP do their job by slowing down intruders, therefore there is no ethical/moral dilemma to be had. Perhaps even this is the belief if even one extra intruder was prevented from entering, the project is successful. Similar arguments can be made for "zero accident"-style safety policies for example...though it is another thread's worth of content to ask how much is it worth spending to potentially save a life?

Ultimately, I'm not sure what response was expected by asking about ethics/morals?