Is there no difference between a wall designed to keep people out and a wall designed to keep people in?
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What is your time limit on when two countries made from one are legitimately two countries not subject to reunification? 50 years? A hundred? Two?
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When were the United States and Mexico a single country? Or would you be ok with such a wall if it were simply farther north so that illegally entering Mexicans couldn't get to the parts of the country that were never part of Mexico?
I don't really support the building of this fence but I don't see what is so abhorrent about building a wall to make more difficult the passage of people into areas that they are not supposed to go. When you cross the border in San Diego, you pass through a wall. Is that wall an embarrassment or just when it is made much longer?
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What makes your chosen time limit unarbitrary?
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Do you honestly believe that the goal of illegal immigration from Mexico is reunification? Do you really believe that those illegal immigrants would want to see the Southwestern United States once again become part of Mexico? Is it not then a betrayal of those ideals that so many of them end up in Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Florida?
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How long were East Germany and West Germany two countries
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Six years when the wall was built
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Really? Well, how long have the U.S. and Mexico been two countries?
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If the wall is built next year it will be 197 years since they both existed as these separate entities. Much, much longer if you count since they they were separate political entities. If you mean since the various parts of the United States that used to be part of Mexico then 169 years for most of what is Texas, 159 years for large parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. 153 years for the final pieces of southern Arizona and New Mexico
purchased (to allow railroad construction along a preferred route) in 1854.