Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador famously does not respect President Joe Biden, so Biden is probably not the best man for the job, but someone needs to teach Mexico about the history of the Berlin Wall.
This past weekend, Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and former Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard installed a 3-ton slab of concrete from the Berlin Wall on the border with the United States with a plaque that reads,"May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges."“Why in Tijuana?” Caballero asked rhetorically at the plaque’s unveiling.
But the longer answer is that Caballero has her history all wrong. The Berlin Wall was not built by the United States to keep the communist subjects of East Germany out of West Berlin. It was built by the Soviet Union to keep its own citizens from escaping to the West. The U.S. has every right to control who does and does not cross its borders, just as Mexico has every right to control its borders. Over 700 miles of the 1,954 U.S.-Mexico border already has a wall, and even Biden is still adding to it to fill some gaps in Arizona.
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