claim: "fences have not worked. the great wall of china, the berlin wall. that's not good among peoples, especially friends like the united states and mexico."
author: bill richardson
evidence_1: mar 8, 2016 ... let's focus on the pitch that could get him there: could trump in fact build a great  wall of making america great again? as with so many things ... his organization  may not stand alone: other professional design associations are bound by ethics  that trump's proposal appears to plainly violate. as with other ...
evidence_2: jan 24, 2017 ... people in countries like the united states and britain are uneasy about what they  perceive as falling economic fortunes, and outsiders who threaten a way of ...  what the late political scientist aristide zolberg called “the great wall against  china” did not come down until 1943, and did only then because the ...
evidence_3: aug 21, 2015 ... world of walls: how 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four  times as many as when the berlin wall was toppled – as governments try to hold  back the tide of migrants. security ..... 'you can't dismiss that illusion, it's important  to people, but they provide the sense of security, not real security.'.
evidence_4: apr 5, 2016 ... “the most beautiful tall wall, better than the great wall of china, that will run the  whole border, that he would somehow magically get the mexican ... “i'm not  isolationist, but i am 'america first,'” trump told the new york times, using a  term for his foreign-policy doctrine that david sanger of the times had ...
evidence_5: jan 30, 2017 ... (that function can be fulfilled by walls that are not literally walls, like france's  1930s maginot line or nazi germany's atlantic wall, both of which were series of  fortifications rather than unitary walls.) but though it only takes one side to build a  wall, experts say they generally work best when both sides want ...