We keep being told that we can’t build a fence to protect our border. If that’s true, than how do 65 other countries manage to do so?
Globalisation was supposed to tear down barriers, but security fears and a widespread refusal to help migrants and refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building across the world, with a third of the world’s countries constructing them along their borders.
When the Berlin Wall was torn down a quarter-century ago, there were 16 border fences around the world.
Today, there are 65 either completed or under construction, according to Quebec University expert Elisabeth Vallet.
You can read a more detailed account on how each country deals with the issue here. My personal opinion? I think too many people look to a wall as an easy fix, but if we don’t do something to secure the border, nothing else we argue about matters.