Krauthammer: If Fences Dont Work, Why Is There One Around the White House?

Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer detects some hypocrisy in President Barack Obamas reluctance to build a fence along the entire border between the United States and Mexico. After all, he asked on The OReilly Factor Tuesday night, If fences dont work, why is there one around the White House?

Krauthammer argued that if America could fully secure its border, then the American people would be far more willing to legalize the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are currently living in this country.

But how would Krauthammer secure the border, OReilly asked. You start with a fence, he replied.

People say, Oh, fences dont work, you make a ladder. Well, then you build two fences, triple-strand fences, Krauthammer continued, stopping short of a Herman Cain-style electrified fence with a moat full of alligators.

If fences dont work, why is there one around the White House? he asked. If they dont work, why is it that the Israeli fence, which separates Israel from the West Bank, has cut down terror attacks within Israel by 99%. Fences work.

Krauthammer admitted that its not entirely practical or even possible to build a fence that covers all 1,989 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico, but said we should be covering as much of it as we possibly can.

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