Like my co-bloggers I've been content to ignore the immigration "debate" that has been going on. But after listening for weeks now, I can honestly say I am embarrassed for my nation.

In 1961, the Russians East Germans began erecting the Berlin Wall to keep their citizens from fleeing to the West. The action drew the moral condemnation of the entire world, and rightly so. If instead the West German authorities had built a wall to keep the East Germans out, would it have been the moral equivalent? I think so.

Using force to stop people from migrating is morally repugnant -- in Germany during the Cold War and in America today. We hold these truths to be self-evident, my ass. Someday, I hope someone will echo the Gipper and stand at our southern border to tell us to tear down our own wall.