On February 21, 1972 President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing, met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung, banqueted in the Great Hall of the People and was warmly toasted by Chou En-lai. Standing at the Great Wall of China on February 24, Nixon said that his search here for “an open world” may result in the destruction of the walls that divide mankind. “We do not want walls of any kind between peoples, and I think one of the results of our trip – we hope – may be that the walls that are erected, whether they are walls of ideology or philosophy, will not divide the peoples of the world.”
What President Nixon said in China 45 years ago still holds true today.
Border fences, concrete, barbed wire or virtual, designed to keep illegal immigrants out of America, are ineffective and a waste of hard-earned taxpayers’ money. Immigrants determined to get to America will find a way around, under, above or through any fence the government builds – a subject I discuss at length in Custom Maid Revolution for New World Disorder.
The so-called $4.4 billion Secure Border Initiative, the invisible fence the Department of Homeland Security has been trying to build since 2006 along the U.S.-Mexican border incorporating high-tech cameras, radar and vibration sensors, is shaping up as the latest failure. It is not practical to fence a 1,933 mile border that more than 350 million people cross legally each year.
The Great Wall of China is a reminder. Built to keep illegal immigrants and hostile armies out, it was breached and penetrated after guards at the gates were bribed and left the gates unlocked.
The Obama administration spent nearly $18 billion on immigration enforcement in 2012 alone, significantly more than its spending on all other major federal law enforcement agencies combined. Obama deported 410,000 foreigners in 2012, giving him the record for the highest number of removals during his first term in office.
Sitting at the bar at Annie Moore’s pub and restaurant on 43rd Street, a few hundred feet from Grand Central Station and the hotel President Trump built in New York, as I do periodically whenever I am in the city before catching a train, I couldn’t help notice how relevant Annie Moore’s is to today’s immigration debate.
On January 1, 1892, a young Irish girl made immigration history. Just 15 years old, Annie Moore sailed from Cobh harbor in County Cork, Ireland, to America. As the ship docked and the gangplank lowered, Annie Moore stepped ashore to a cheering crowd. She was handed a $10 gold piece and became the first immigrant to be processed through the newly-opened Ellis Island immigration center.
America, and the world as we know it, emerged out of the ceaseless wandering of humans on Planet Earth. The world can only improve by regulating the movement of people constructively, rather than trying to stop it. It can’t be stopped.
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I have read, understand and philosophically agree with your comments about a wall. I now ask a question.
I will presume it’s impractical & politically incorrect to build a wall so how do you propose we practically and in a politically correct way keep out the unauthorized people and drugs from coming over the border.
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