Dennis Hansen: New US Immigration Bill has One Major Flaw - Fences R. Dennis Hansen - IEET
go to original July 2, 2013

I’m tired of walls, fences, borders, anything that divides us. There’s the Berlin Wall, The Fence (between the USA and Mexico), Hadrian’s Wall, and the Great Wall of China. There is Africa which was divided into countries by the colonial powers using boundaries that frequently made no sense whatsoever; they are just lines on a map that require border crossings. Historic dividers may be intriguing tourist attractions, but they were rarely useful for their proposed function. They have become obsolete emblems of civilization’s failures.

Why should persons born on one side of a fence or wall have a totally different set of living circumstances and opportunities than those living on the other side? And borders are frequently excuses for bad behavior. Because of a line on a map, Americans want to believe that they are blessed of God, and others less so.

... I came of age in the 1960s. John Lennon’s Image still has meaning to me:

Imagine there’s no countries/It isn’t hard to do/Nothing to kill or die for/And no religion too/Imagine all the people living life in peace

America is preparing to invest additional billions in The Fence. The 10-year cost includes $25 billion for additional border guards, $3 billion for fencing, and $3.2 billion for other measures. The project is doomed to failure, and in reality is just a PR stunt to placate political conservatives.

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