Obama's 45 year old baby Dreamers will be hit the hardest.
Especially those who haven't actually arrived here from the mid-east yet.
Posted on 01/27/2017 2:39:30 PM PST by Ennis85
Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller has urged US President Donald Trump "not to go down the road of isolation" with his planned border wall with Mexico. Mr Mueller warned such divides cause "slavery and pain" and would "destroy the lives of millions". The German city was divided by the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989. Mr Mueller's statement came as Mr Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto agreed to "work out their differences" over the issue. The planned wall was one of Mr Trump's key election campaign pledges, but it has cast a shadow over the US's relationship with its neighbour. "We Berliners know best how much suffering was caused by the division of an entire continent," Mr Mueller said in a statement, referring to Europe's "Iron Curtain".
He said the city could not "silently look on as a country sets about building a new wall". "We cannot let our historical experience get trashed by the very people to whom we owe much of our freedom: the Americans. "I call on the president not to go down the road of isolation," the statement reads (in German). "Mr President, don't build this wall." A strategic relationship At a joint news conference on Friday at the White House with the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, Mr Trump said he had had a "very good call" with Mr Pena Nieto. The White House later released a statement describing the telephone conversation as "productive and constructive", adding that both presidents recognised the "differences of positions" on the issue of the proposed wall.
"Both presidents have instructed their teams to continue the dialogue to strengthen this important strategic and economic relationship," the statement said.
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Communism has ruined more lives than walls.
We’re gonna have to put up another berlin wall to keep the muzzies out over there.
Bullsh!t.
Any affected family can reunite in Mexico any time they please.
Obama's 45 year old baby Dreamers will be hit the hardest.
Especially those who haven't actually arrived here from the mid-east yet.
Your German nation is responsible for two world wars and a decades long cold war, Just within the last 100 years. Speaking for the rest of the planet, STFU.
The Berlin Wall was in the same country. Not different nations, so no comparison.
I think the answer is for the U.S. government to support reform measures in the countries that supply the illegal immigrant surge, and to encourage the people looking for a better life to fight for it in their home countries, just like we are trying to do in our countries.
It won’t be easy. Nothing good is ever easy. But sneaking into another country and removing your energy and passion from the equation there just condemns your fellow citizens to more of the same dysfunction that you tried to leave behind. Of course there can be some legal immigration on mutually convenient terms too. But in general, this is what refugees need to do to make a better world and their enablers in Europe should know better since this is how they got as far as they did (something they seem to have forgotten in this generation).
Few things are dumber than comparisons of a wall designed to keep people in (the Berlin wall) a totalitarian society against their will, and a wall designed to keep people from illegally entering a nation when those people desire to enter that nation.
The mayor is trying to say prison walls and security walls to prevent illegal entry are the same.
I was a young boy when The Berlin Wall went up.
It was a time of history when it came down.
In the late ‘90’s, the mayor of Portland, OR, one Vera Katz, was a woman who made it out through the wall, came to America and it’s freedom.
The mayor of Berlin just might not be of enough experience first-hand, to adequately understand the difference of a wall with the guns pointed IN, and a wall with no guns atop it.
Right! There were Germans on both sides of the wall. East Berlin Germans were shot by East Berlin Police trying to escape the Leftist Socialist State to Freedom, in the still recovering from the war, West Germany.
as long as its not american lives... who gives a fudge?
Meanwhile Islam takes over Germany. What a MAROON.
Words uttered in dramatic fashion: “Ich bin ein Mexikaner”.
I knew idiots would compare the Trump Wall to the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall kept people IN an oppressive nation, depriving them of their God given freedom to leave if desired. The Trump wall is to keep invaders, terrorists, and illegal drugs out of our nation, just control our border. I knew the evil MSM would make this false comparison.
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