In talking about the proposed wall that is included in the immigration bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last December, some people have called it "a 700-mile Berlin Wall on the Mexican border."
This comparison of the proposed wall along the Mexican border to the Berlin Wall, a comparison which is also made to the wall Israel is building on the West Bank, is easy – but wrong. I do not know whether the construction of these walls is right, but I do the comparison of them to the Berlin Wall is wrong.
The purpose of these walls is to keep people out. The purpose of the Berlin Wall, the ultimate symbol of the failure of communism, was to keep people in. And as anybody who ever saw it will tell you, that makes all the difference in the world.
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