House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has declared that a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border would be “immoral.” but of course, she cannot present a logical argument to support this declaration.
At her recent press briefing, she conceded that the government has a duty to secure the nation’s borders.
“(W)e have a responsibility, all of us, to secure our borders, north, south, and coming in by plane on our coasts, three coasts, north, south, and west,” she said. “And that’s a responsibility we honor, but we do so by honoring our values as well.”
Townhall reports,
In Pelosi’s view, a wall built to secure our border would fail to honor our values.
“We, most of us, speaking for myself, consider the wall immoral, ineffective and expensive,” she said, “and the president … promised Mexico would pay for it. So even if they did, it’s immoral still, and then they’re not going to pay for it.”
A wall, in itself, has no moral standing. Whether building and maintaining a wall is moral or immoral depends on the job its builders intend it to do and how it works in doing that job.
The communists who built the Berlin Wall erected it to trap people in a tyrannical regime, where they were deprived of their God-given rights and subjected to the materialistic social engineering of Marxist overlords.
The Berlin Wall was an instrument of evil. Those who built it, maintained it and enforced it used it to unjustly deprive human beings of their freedom.
But you could take the same physical structure the communists used to keep people in East Berlin and use it to build a prison where you incarcerate terrorist leaders found guilty of committing genocide against Christians in Iraq and Syria.
In that prison, perpetrators of genocide, who had been tried and duly convicted in a justly run court of law, would be fed, sheltered and cared for — but not allowed to leave.
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