Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

I found a chunk of the Berlin Wall among my stored items the other day. I purchased it during my visit to Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie some years ago. I’ve taken it from storage to remind myself of when the Berlin Wall that separated neighbors and fellow Berliners for far too many years came tumbling down. It’s an appropriate item to ponder now that President Trump insists on building a similar wall along our southern border. If that wall is ever built, someday, like the Berlin Wall, it, too, will be torn down when we realize it should never have been built in the first place.

My chunk of misshaped Berlin Wall concrete is stamped with an emblem, to prove its authenticity. I predict that when the Trump wall comes tumbling down, it will be branded with his insignia, the one that emblazons all his real estate holdings. A future chunk of official Trump southern wall concrete may then be seen as proof of his folly and a legacy of ongoing misguided policies that are fracturing our nation.

Robert Israel

Arlington

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Let’s build a wall. Let’s shut down the government over . . . the wall. This has always been, in my honest opinion, the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Yes, there is a massive problem at our Southern border, but $5 billion to address just a small part of it is just crazy.

Besides, all I heard during the presidential campaign a few years ago was that Mexico was going to pay for it. I knew then that would never happen. It was an outright bald-faced lie, one of the first among many hundreds of lies.

I haven’t heard much from anyone about how Mexico was going to pay for it, but I sure hope that changes a lot in the coming weeks. I don’t understand the support for this guy. We shut down a part of the government and hurt ourselves to try to fund this ridiculous wall. The sorry thing is that it is probably, in part, just another attempt to divert attention from the many investigations surrounding him.

The $5 billion could go a long way in helping to solve the problem at the Southern border. Better technology, more border patrol agents. Yes, more fencing. Not a concrete wall sure to crumble and be ineffective in lot of areas along the border. Can anyone imagine the maintenance costs this wall would require? A tax increase would surely be in order, I imagine. And yes, it would help provide humanitarian aid to those who have fled Middle American countries.

Like it or not, it’s our problem now. Maybe if President Donald Trump hadn’t acted ignorantly to Mexican leaders, we may have had more cooperation in doing something about these caravans before they got this far. Who knows what that would have been? We’ll never know because it’s the road not taken, as was the case so many times in the last couple years.

TOM KERIN

Bethel Park

“Former @NYTimes editor Jill Abramson rips paper's ‘unmistakably anti-Trump’ bias.”

Ms. Abramson is 100% correct. Horrible and totally dishonest reporting on almost everything they write. Hence the term Fake News, Enemy of the People, and Opposition Party!

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