An impassable barrier would do little to address the real challenges at the border, including the arrival of thousands of refugees and the ‘catch and release’ policy
Immigration policy is usually driven by perception much more than it is by reality. And at the heart of these perceptions is the question of how we think about the border. Is it a dark and dangerous place, under siege by aliens who come to spread crime and pestilence? Or is it a place of give-and-take, where our nation must deal with the outside world in a way consonant with our values and showing awareness that absolute sovereignty is a dangerous illusion?
By now, the world knows that Donald Trump thinks of the border primarily as a threat. It is the nation’s weakest point, where it regrettably must have interchange with the dark forces that lie beyond the land of the free. Over it flow criminals, drugs, fictitious “unknown Middle Easterners” (by which he means terrorists) and migrants in general.
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