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Our turbulent world needs strong walls

Liberals love to condemn President Trump’s wall but ignore the importance of keeping our borders safe and secure

The Times

They have appeared in the California scrubland like faceless Easter Island statues; eight slabs of concrete and metal standing up to 30ft high. To test their strength, these prototype sections for President Trump’s wall are currently being attacked by jackhammers and saws — and attacked from elsewhere too. Last week the Bishop of Liverpool spoke darkly of “a system which builds walls instead of bridges”. This follows various wall-bashing statements from the Pope: the Christian calling is “to not raise walls but bridges”; “a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian.”

A prototype section of the US-Mexico border wall planned by Donald Trump
A prototype section of the US-Mexico border wall planned by Donald Trump
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If you’re ever groping for a piety, reach for walls v bridges. Isaac Newton’s “we build too many walls and not enough bridges” has since been paraphrased