A Comment About

Do Border Walls Cause More Harm Than Good?

April 13, 2008 - 12:19 am - by Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Mark
2008-04-16 08:17:15

> When people know about the wall and that it is impenetrable, they won’t take the trouble to get to it.

Literally hundreds of millions of US citizens and billions of commerce cross that border every day. So you want to take Texan’s (and others) private property, destroy our local economy, and limit our freedom to travel? And if you come back and say “oh all that can flow across this impenetrable barrier, no problem there”, then I’ll teach you a few well-known facts about security you apparently don’t know. Then again, since if you poke most restrictionist fire-eaters you find you’ll get anti-international trader as well, you may just say “So what, I don’t like international trade either”.