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The Wall Would Work
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| Last night, President Trump gave his first Oval Office address to the nation. | |
| He explained that we need to extend the wall on the Mexican border to keep out drugs and illegal immigrants. | |
| It was a short, straightforward speech. | |
| You can read it in just four or five minutes. | |
| But like everything the president does, it sent the people who hate him into a frenzy. | |
| Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, called the speech a litany of lies. | |
| Vox said that it was an insult to the nation's intelligence. | |
| CNN said it was sprinkled with falsehoods. | |
| And Nancy Pelosi said the president is full of misinformation and even malice. | |
| I wonder what they would think of the yell about If he had recited the Lord's Prayer. | |
| When they're not out and out hysterical about Donald Trump and his wall, liberals and Democrats and even a few squishy Republicans say border walls don't work. | |
| In fact, they work very well. | |
| We're all supposed to laugh at the supposedly useless Great Wall of China. | |
| But the Chinese started building walls in the 7th century BC and kept building them for more than 2,000 years until the end of the Ming Dynasty. | |
| Total length? | |
| 13,000 miles. | |
| Did they build walls because they were too stupid to notice that they weren't working? | |
| No. Walls stopped countless incursions. | |
| One of the most famous modern walls was the Berlin Wall. | |
| Which went up in 1961 to stop East Germans from streaming out of the communist part of the country into West Germany. | |
| The wall in Berlin was actually just a short part of a wall that ran the entire length of the border with West Germany. | |
| And it was a huge success. | |
| In the 16 years before the wall went up, nearly 220,000 East Germans fled to the West. | |
| For the 28 years after the wall went up, do you know how many people managed to get over it? | |
| 185. And that's the figure for defections along the entire East German border. | |
| It was an effective wall. | |
| Israel used to have a problem with terrorists and illegal immigrants sneaking in from Egypt. | |
| Not anymore. | |
| Take a look at this graph. | |
| From 2006 until 2010, when Israel decided to build a 16-foot fence. | |
| It was finished in 2013, and look what happened. | |
| Annual illegal crossings plummeted to 43, 21, 220, 18. That wasn't good enough for the Israelis. | |
| In 2017, they added another 10 feet to the fence in certain places and the number of illegal crossings dropped. | |
| To zero. | |
| I'd call that a success, too. | |
| Here's another fence that works, the one that Hungary put up on its border with Serbia in 2015 when swarms of Middle Easterners were trying to get in. | |
| This graph shows the number of illegals caught by the border police every two days during 2015 before and after the fence was completed. | |
| After the fence, Illegal crossings dropped essentially to zero. | |
| Our wall on the Mexican border works too. | |
| The blue line is the number of miles of wall. | |
| The actual number of miles is on the right. | |
| We're now just over 600. | |
| The orange line is the number of illegals caught coming across each year. | |
| The relationship is clear. | |
| The longer the wall, the tougher it is to sneak in. | |
| Border barriers work. | |
| And that's why so many countries have them. | |
| Fully 65% of the population of the world lives in countries that have a substantial wall or fence. | |
| Those are the countries that are in red on this map. | |
| 10% of the world's population lives on islands, so they don't need a fence or a wall. | |
| Only 25% of the world population lives in places with no barriers. | |
| Most of them are in Africa. | |
| No one wants to break into those places. | |
| Here are just a few border barriers from around the world. | |
| This is Saudi Arabia's fence on the Iraqi border. | |
| This is Turkey's wall against Iran. | |
| Here is Turkey's wall on the Syrian border. | |
| Pretty serious wall. | |
| This is Ecuador's wall with Peru. | |
| Here is Argentina's wall to keep out Paraguayans. | |
| Bulgaria has a fence to keep out Turks. | |
| And this is Iran's wall on the Afghan and Pakistan border. | |
| Good luck getting over that. | |
| Of course, it's only white countries that get yelled at when they build walls. | |
| And boy are they yelling about President Trump's wall. | |
| But listen closely to what they yell. | |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a wall wouldn't work. | |
| But it would also be, get this, immoral. | |
| What makes it immoral? | |
| It would keep people out. | |
| It's immoral because it would work. | |
| Remember, Nancy Pelosi wants to legalize the illegals. | |
| And she says she's very proud of her grandson, who wishes he had brown skin and dark eyes, like his Guatemalan friend Antonio. | |
| So beautiful. | |
| So beautiful, says Nancy. | |
| The face of the future for our country, she says. | |
| So she opposes the wall because it would work. | |
| It would keep out Antonio. | |
| And Jill Abramson, formerly of the New York Times, whom I mentioned earlier, she says the wall would be inhumane. | |
| That's because it would keep people out because it would work. | |
| The same goes for Tim Kistner, who used to work for Homeland Security under President Obama. | |
| He says the wall won't work. | |
| But then he says, and I quote, the wall also has a more pernicious effect. | |
| Well, what's that? | |
| It would discourage immigrants. | |
| In other words, it would work. | |
| But I'll close with the authoritative publication on border security. | |
| Teen Vogue. | |
| Yep, Teen Vogue. | |
| It ran a recent article called The Immorality of Trump's Border Wall Explained. | |
| It's by Raul Carillo, Alan Aja, and Julian Hernandez. | |
| Mayflower names, obviously. | |
| Here is their key passage. | |
| As people flee the violence and poverty exacerbated by U.S. imperialism and neoliberal trade, we must defend their freedom of movement because if anyone owes anyone, the federal government owes migrants. | |
| In other words, we're responsible for the violence and poverty that make the third world unlivable, so the government has a duty to let in illegals. | |
| The wall would be immoral because it would keep them out. | |
| You didn't know your little sister was getting psychotic lefty rubbish along with her fashion tips, did you? | |
| Well, next time you hear someone saying the wall shouldn't be built because walls don't work, dig a little deeper. | |
| Chances are it's someone who likes illegals and doesn't want a wall because a wall would work. | |
| It would keep them out. | |