Fences and Walls, the difference is in the use.

I was reading an article called "Fencing Would Assist Border Agents" and my thoughts went to this subject and what I learned in history.

Fences and walls are bad or good depending on their uses.

If they are built to keep someone in (not including prisons and jails) which restricts them from freedom of movement like the Jews in Poland, it is wrong. Those walls and fences were traps. The food they got was what they could buy and passed through the fences to them. When their money ran out, they sold jewelry, family items, and even religious items. In time they even sold the gold in their teeth and the clothes they wore. When they ran out of items to trade, they died in mass. I suggest that everyone watches "The Nazi's: A Warning from History" which details many things about death camps, especially Treblinka. When moved from the Warsaw Ghettos to the death camps, the Jews were constantly imprisoned by walls and fences.

Now today, we can look to the Jews and many other people in how walls and fences are used for good. Walls and fences are being used to keep others who would hurt their people out. In our own society we use walls and fences to keep our own people safe, and that is the main difference. It is how a wall is used.

I have no problem using a wall to prevent criminals from gaining access to my house. I have no problem using a fence to keep convicted criminals in prison. I do have problems with walls that are built like the Berlin Wall which separated Germans from Germans. Now we must examine this a bit closer.

The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviets after World War II in 1961. Guard towers and land mines were placed to keep the East Germans in, and if they tried to cross to freedom, death was often the result. You could be shot for just approaching the fences and walls which made up the Berlin Wall. The Soviets would have spies in and amongst the populace listening for any talk of attempting an escape. If caught doing this, you faced prison or death.

This is not what we are doing today. Today we are asking that a fence be built to keep non-Americans out. Not just any non-Americans, but those wishing to enter illegally. Not only are many trying to enter illegally, many are bringing in drugs.

Border Agents arrested more than 1.1 million illegal aliens and seized more
than 1.3 million pounds of narcotics in the last year. BICE

So that equals more than a pound of drugs per person captured. Now we all know that the Border Patrol is trying their best, but we can easily guess that this is around 4 to 10 percent of what is actually coming across. So why not a fence? We are not building it to keep Americans or Legal Immigrants from traveling. We are not building it to imprison anyone. We are building it to protect our lands.

Whenever I hear that these people are only coming to find a better life, I always wonder about the Latin Kings, MS 13, Mexican Mafia, Nortenos, and Surenos just to name a few. This isn't even getting into the organizations which have been missed by mainstream media and law enforcement. Now I do know that not all the members of these gangs are illegal immigrants, but if you trace the history in each group and current memberships, you will find more than enough of illegals to make you concerned. Oh, and this isn't even mentioning the other gangs from groups originally coming from places not south of our border.

A fence is only a start. Call it a stop gap measure, but any slowing of the flow of illegals and drugs would do us some good, and buy us some time to figure out a better solution than what we currently have now, which is almost nothing.