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$\"\"$ <\/a>I\u2019ve blogged before about how I think Thomas L Friedman so often knows what he\u2019s talking about. He is an American political commentator, author, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, and has a weekly column in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019ve blogged so much as a critic of Donald Trump as president (and so has Friedman), and now I\u2019m about to publish a book about it, I have agreed with Trump\u2013actually long before I ever knew about his views of our illegal immigration and how to solve it\u2013that the U.S. needs to construct a wall or fence on much of its border with Mexico in order to better control illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

Well, Thomas L. Friedman\u2019s title for his column this week in The New York Times<\/em> is \u201cWe Need a High Wall With a Big Gate on the Southern Border.\u201d So, we both think Trump was right about this and that President Biden will be making a mistake if he sticks to his promise to no longer build the fence Trump started. I wonder how much Catholic Biden is letting Pope Francis influence him about this. The pope has strongly expressed his opposition to all walls and fences on national borders. Biden\u2019s refusal to continue the fence seems to have been the major impetus for a big surge in immigrants trying to illegally cross our southern border since he became president. It is reported that 170,000 illegal immigrants were stopped at our southern border in March.<\/p>\n

Friedman says in his article, \u201ca seemingly out-of-control border would be a godsend for the G.O.P.\u201d He continues, \u201cAlready, a recent ABC News\/Ipsos poll found that 57 percent\u00a0 of Americans disapprove of Biden\u2019s handling of the border. High wall-big gate is the right position for Biden.\u201d Friedman means \u201cgate\u201d to refer to the U.S. continuing if not increasing its tradition of accepting legal immigrants. He argues that legal immigration has made a major contribution to U.S. economic success even in modern times.<\/p>\n

I agree with all that Friedman says in this article. We don\u2019t need Donald Trump as president, but we still need a barrier such as a wall or fence that he so much wanted to build. If further progress is ever made on it, I will call it Trump\u2019s Wall except that since he put up bollard fencing, maybe it should be called Trump\u2019s Fence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"