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Wall there to keep order

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In response to the May 29 letter from Mr. Nandagopal, while I can see how disturbingly iconographic both walls may be, the Berlin Wall and the one across our southern border are not the same, and the differences are as profound as they are worth recounting.

The Berlin Wall was meant to imprison everybody in a country in which slave labor was national policy and where those trying to escape were shot to death. OUR wall is merely meant to make aspiring immigrants wait their turn (like my wife and my mom did), in adherence to an orderly application process.

To the extent that there are rich people here who abet human trafficking and hold slave labor, that is an illegal aberration which is not endorsed by the public.

Philip J. Mulligan

Spokane

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