Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - They Hate Trump’s Wall – Because Border Walls Work
Aired: 2021-01-24
Duration: 08:20


=== The Wall Would Work (08:16) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:08]  Last night, President Trump gave his first Oval Office address to the nation.
[00:00:13]  He explained that we need to extend the wall on the Mexican border to keep out drugs and illegal immigrants.
[00:00:20]  It was a short, straightforward speech.
[00:00:23]  You can read it in just four or five minutes.
[00:00:25]  But like everything the president does, it sent the people who hate him into a frenzy.
[00:00:32]  Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, called the speech a litany of lies.
[00:00:41]  Vox said that it was an insult to the nation's intelligence.
[00:00:47]  CNN said it was sprinkled with falsehoods.
[00:00:51]  And Nancy Pelosi said the president is full of misinformation and even malice.
[00:00:58]  I wonder what they would think of the yell about If he had recited the Lord's Prayer.
[00:01:04]  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.
[00:01:16]  In fact, they work very well.
[00:01:20]  We're all supposed to laugh at the supposedly useless Great Wall of China.
[00:01:25]  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.
[00:01:36]  Total length?
[00:01:38]  13,000 miles.
[00:01:40]  Did they build walls because they were too stupid to notice that they weren't working?
[00:01:45]  No. Walls stopped countless incursions.
[00:01:49]  One of the most famous modern walls was the Berlin Wall.
[00:01:53]  Which went up in 1961 to stop East Germans from streaming out of the communist part of the country into West Germany.
[00:02:01]  The wall in Berlin was actually just a short part of a wall that ran the entire length of the border with West Germany.
[00:02:09]  And it was a huge success.
[00:02:13]  In the 16 years before the wall went up, nearly 220,000 East Germans fled to the West.
[00:02:21]  For the 28 years after the wall went up, do you know how many people managed to get over it?
[00:02:28]  185. And that's the figure for defections along the entire East German border.
[00:02:35]  It was an effective wall.
[00:02:38]  Israel used to have a problem with terrorists and illegal immigrants sneaking in from Egypt.
[00:02:44]  Not anymore.
[00:02:46]  Take a look at this graph.
[00:02:51]  From 2006 until 2010, when Israel decided to build a 16-foot fence.
[00:02:57]  It was finished in 2013, and look what happened.
[00:03:01]  Annual illegal crossings plummeted to 43, 21, 220, 18. That wasn't good enough for the Israelis.
[00:03:12]  In 2017, they added another 10 feet to the fence in certain places and the number of illegal crossings dropped.
[00:03:21]  To zero.
[00:03:22]  I'd call that a success, too.
[00:03:25]  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.
[00:03:36]  This graph shows the number of illegals caught by the border police every two days during 2015 before and after the fence was completed.
[00:03:48]  After the fence, Illegal crossings dropped essentially to zero.
[00:03:54]  Our wall on the Mexican border works too.
[00:03:57]  The blue line is the number of miles of wall.
[00:04:00]  The actual number of miles is on the right.
[00:04:03]  We're now just over 600.
[00:04:06]  The orange line is the number of illegals caught coming across each year.
[00:04:12]  The relationship is clear.
[00:04:14]  The longer the wall, the tougher it is to sneak in.
[00:04:18]  Border barriers work.
[00:04:20]  And that's why so many countries have them.
[00:04:23]  Fully 65% of the population of the world lives in countries that have a substantial wall or fence.
[00:04:32]  Those are the countries that are in red on this map.
[00:04:36]  10% of the world's population lives on islands, so they don't need a fence or a wall.
[00:04:41]  Only 25% of the world population lives in places with no barriers.
[00:04:48]  Most of them are in Africa.
[00:04:50]  No one wants to break into those places.
[00:04:53]  Here are just a few border barriers from around the world.
[00:04:57]  This is Saudi Arabia's fence on the Iraqi border.
[00:05:02]  This is Turkey's wall against Iran.
[00:05:06]  Here is Turkey's wall on the Syrian border.
[00:05:09]  Pretty serious wall.
[00:05:11]  This is Ecuador's wall with Peru.
[00:05:15]  Here is Argentina's wall to keep out Paraguayans.
[00:05:20]  Bulgaria has a fence to keep out Turks.
[00:05:24]  And this is Iran's wall on the Afghan and Pakistan border.
[00:05:29]  Good luck getting over that.
[00:05:31]  Of course, it's only white countries that get yelled at when they build walls.
[00:05:36]  And boy are they yelling about President Trump's wall.
[00:05:41]  But listen closely to what they yell.
[00:05:44]  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a wall wouldn't work.
[00:05:48]  But it would also be, get this, immoral.
[00:05:52]  What makes it immoral?
[00:05:53]  It would keep people out.
[00:05:56]  It's immoral because it would work.
[00:05:58]  Remember, Nancy Pelosi wants to legalize the illegals.
[00:06:02]  And she says she's very proud of her grandson, who wishes he had brown skin and dark eyes, like his Guatemalan friend Antonio.
[00:06:12]  So beautiful.
[00:06:13]  So beautiful, says Nancy.
[00:06:16]  The face of the future for our country, she says.
[00:06:19]  So she opposes the wall because it would work.
[00:06:23]  It would keep out Antonio.
[00:06:25]  And Jill Abramson, formerly of the New York Times, whom I mentioned earlier, she says the wall would be inhumane.
[00:06:33]  That's because it would keep people out because it would work.
[00:06:37]  The same goes for Tim Kistner, who used to work for Homeland Security under President Obama.
[00:06:44]  He says the wall won't work.
[00:06:46]  But then he says, and I quote, the wall also has a more pernicious effect.
[00:06:51]  Well, what's that?
[00:06:53]  It would discourage immigrants.
[00:06:55]  In other words, it would work.
[00:06:57]  But I'll close with the authoritative publication on border security.
[00:07:02]  Teen Vogue.
[00:07:04]  Yep, Teen Vogue.
[00:07:06]  It ran a recent article called The Immorality of Trump's Border Wall Explained.
[00:07:12]  It's by Raul Carillo, Alan Aja, and Julian Hernandez.
[00:07:18]  Mayflower names, obviously.
[00:07:21]  Here is their key passage.
[00:07:23]  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.
[00:07:41]  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.
[00:07:51]  The wall would be immoral because it would keep them out.
[00:07:55]  You didn't know your little sister was getting psychotic lefty rubbish along with her fashion tips, did you?
[00:08:03]  Well, next time you hear someone saying the wall shouldn't be built because walls don't work, dig a little deeper.
[00:08:11]  Chances are it's someone who likes illegals and doesn't want a wall because a wall would work.
[00:08:17]  It would keep them out.