The Left and the mainstream media when it comes to discussing President Trump’s election campaign promise to build a wall on the United States southern border, acts as if there are no other countries besides China and Gaza which have walls. The only other wall which exists was the Berlin wall and the MSM always like to point to the fact that it eventually failed and was torn down.
Politicians who are against Trump and his “wall” like to
always look as if they are embarrassed that other countries know about our
dirty little secret. Donald Trump though, isn’t the only leader which views a
physical wall as a way to secure a given region.
Globalization was supposed to tear down barriers, but
security fears and a widespread refusal to help migrants and refugees have
fueled a new spate of wall-building across the world, with a third of the world's
countries constructing them along their borders, 65 either completed or under
construction. When the Berlin Wall was torn down a quarter-century ago, there
were 16 border fences around the world.
It is the refusal of immigrants and migrants to conform to
the host country’s customs and culture which fuels fear and demands for walls
along the country’s borders. It is the violence and the destruction and the
rape that they bring with them with the complete disregard of the law which
makes citizens demand a wall.
India is building a 2,500-mile barbed-wire fence surrounding
Bangladesh, the sand 'berm' that separates Morocco from rebel-held parts of the
Western Sahara, Hungary's four-metre-high (13 feet) fence along its border with
Serbia and the walls in Kenya, Saudi Arabia and Turkey all have one thing in
common: To keep their neighbors out.
The walls that governments are building aren’t small at all,
Turkey’s wall on the Syrian border is 28 miles long but it pales in comparison
to the multi-layered fence which will one day stretch 600 miles from Jordan to
Kuwait along Saudi's border with Iraq as a defense to ISIS. The Berlin Wall was
nearly 100 miles in length.
If Trump gets his way and builds the wall, it will make
Saudi Arabia’s wall look small in comparison. The Mexican wall will be 2,000
miles long and underlines four states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and
California. About 670 miles of fencing, one-third of the distance on the
U.S.–Mexico border already exists. It was completed in accordance with the Bush
administration's Secure Fence Act of 2006.
As much as the Democrats and the Left wants you to believe
that they are against the wall and care about the poor immigrants, but they
pushed for the Secure Fence Act. The law flew through the Senate with a vote of
80 to 19. (Senator John Kerry voted against it.) In the House, the measure
passed 283 to 138, with 64 Democrats supporting it. Sens. Barack Obama, Joe
Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer were among the 26 Democrats who
approved the bill which by the way now oppose the wall only by virtue that it
could be part of Trump’s future legacy.
Trump's Department of Homeland Security chief, John Kelly,
said in recent Senate testimony, a "physical barrier will not do the
job." He went on to say it can be part of a strategy. "If you build a
wall, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human
beings, by sensors, by observation devices."
The Secure Fence Act was never repealed and is why the law
still is good today. Because it was never repealed, Congress doesn’t have to
pass a new law to begin construction.
The nearly 700 mile section of the wall that is already built can be
“refund” the original project. Basically, all Trump is doing at this point is
finishing a project that was already approved.
In October of 2006 on the Senate floor, Senator Barack Obama
offered measured praise for the Secure Fence Act, “The bill before us will
certainly do some good,” saying it would provide “better fences and better
security along our borders” and would “help stem some of the tide of illegal
immigration in this country.
The walls are sometimes called 'peace lines' as they are in
Belfast or viewed as aggressive symbolism. “The one thing all these walls have
in common is that their main function is theatre”, said Marcello Di Cintio in a
Daily Mail piece, author of “Walls: Travels along the Barricades”. “You can't
dismiss that illusion, it's important to people, but they provide the sense of
security, not real security.”
Whether you agree with building a wall along our southern
border or not, you have to agree on the fact that the 13,000 mile long Great
Wall of China has been effective at curbing the raids and invasions of the
various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe (read: Mongols) since before Christ.
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