I remain in awe of how some otherwise rational people refuse to accept the fact that a wall is necessary to secure the southern border of the United States. Here I will try to make this argument in a logical and reasonable way …

Virtually any space owned by someone has definite boundaries (the legal boundaries). These boundaries, whether clearly delineated or not, serve to define who owns, controls, and / or is legally entitled to be on that property. In even simpler terms: your area is yours – you can be in it and you can decide who else can be in it.

When someone’s property has no clearly defined or delimited boundaries, there is still no legal question about who owns it and who can legally be in it. But the problem arises that, without clearly delineated boundaries (boundaries), others who have no right to be on that property can potentially, and often successfully, argue that they didn’t know they weren’t supposed to be there. In even simpler terms: if you want to control or limit who can be on your property, you need to clearly delineate the boundaries.

Someone’s property can be delineated in various ways: markings, signs, electronic sensors, and the like. These measures can delineate and define boundaries, but do nothing to control or limit access to the property.

The boundaries of someone’s property can be observed in a number of ways: camera surveillance, personal observation, alarms, drones, and the like. These measures can see who has tried to enter or who has already had access to the property, but they do nothing to control or limit access.

The boundaries of someone’s property can be delimited, controlled and protected (limiting access) primarily by barriers (fences and walls) with specific entry / exit points (doors and gates). The concept is simple: walls deter and prevent entry; and the doors allow the control of authorized entry and exit.

So, in summary and in even simpler terms: a combination of strategies must be present to delineate and separate mine from yours, guard my property, keep authorized persons safe inside my property, and keep unauthorized persons out .

Every building that we enter every day has walls and doors. In our own homes, for example, the walls and doors define the space that is ours, and they let us choose who enters our space and in the way we choose. This is not petty, racist, bigoted, unreasonable or immoral, it is the way civilized people live: for example, our doors are usually in a common / public area rather than our private / personal space (we could allow someone come into our life). room, but not in our bedroom). And if someone chooses to violate our space by trying to enter improperly or illegally, what do we do? We protect our space using self-defense strategies or calling the corresponding authorities. How can a reasonable person not understand this or think that delimiting and controlling our space is immoral, inappropriate or bad?

President Trump has NEVER said that a wall is the entirety of border security. Rather, it has repeatedly said that it is just another tool to provide border security alongside technology (alarms, sensors, CCTV, etc.), personnel (additional Border Patrol and law enforcement personnel), and immigration law reform. It is a comprehensive and multifaceted program. Here’s an example: Just because you live in a community with a police department and may have a doorbell camera, you wouldn’t consider removing your front door. Simple concept … If 50 people you don’t know show up at your house and demand to be let in, you’d be glad you had a door and walls, and still call the police. And by the way: when the police came and arrested the intruders and some of the intruders had children, the families would not stick together; the children would be referred to Child Protective Services while the father was taken to jail and the matter was resolved.

The fight for “the wall” is obviously not about common sense, reasonableness or logic, it is about nothing more than the politics of one side that disagrees with the other for the sake of partisanship. And this continuing childish disagreement is damaging the security of our country.