I think he’s actually correct about this. I still want a big, BIG fence, but there is real danger from Our Rulers that just love to tell us how to live, where to live, and how much we can earn.
They are entirely capable of creating an American sequestered space. Think it can’t happen? It’s happened in the past.
Why would Big Brother need to do any of that when it is apparent, he can control you by keeping you in fear? PTBs learned a long time ago, physical walls keeping people in can be torn down but walls of the mind can keep people enslaved. Here is a perfect example, decent folks opposing or fearing something as simple as a border security fence because Big Brother just plants a suggestion that it will be used against you.
We already have the Berlin Wall keeping you powerless against the government, but it is just in your mind, and Paul apparently was one of the builders.