{"id":102662,"date":"2016-07-31T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102662"},"modified":"2016-07-31T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:12:56","slug":"lat-why-borders-matter-and-a-borderless-world-is-a-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102662","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Why borders matter \u2014 and a borderless world is a fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Few escape petty hypocrisy when preaching the universal gospel of borderlessness. In 2011, open-borders advocate Antonio Villaraigosa became the first mayor in Los Angeles history to build a wall around the official mayoral residence. His un-walled neighbors objected, first, that there was no need for such a barricade and, second, that it violated a city ordinance prohibiting residential walls higher than four feet. But Villaraigosa apparently wished to emphasize the difference between his home and the street, or was worried about security, or saw a new wall as iconic of his exalted office.<\/p>\n

While elites can build walls to insulate themselves, the consequences of their policies fall heavily on the nonelites who lack the money and influence to navigate around them. The contrast between the two groups \u2014 Peggy Noonan described them as the \u201cprotected\u201d and the \u201cunprotected\u201d \u2014 was dramatized in the presidential campaign of Jeb Bush. When the former Florida governor called illegal immigration from Mexico \u201can act of love,\u201d his candidacy was doomed. It seemed that Bush had the capital to pick and choose how the consequences of his ideas fell upon himself and his family \u2014 in a way impossible for most of those living in the southwestern United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson writes: Few escape petty hypocrisy when preaching the universal gospel of borderlessness. In 2011, open-borders advocate Antonio Villaraigosa became the first mayor in Los Angeles history to build a wall around the official mayoral residence. His un-walled … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t