Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?

Authors

Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

"Future historians might well brand 2015 the 'year of borders.' Presidential hopeful Donald Trump used the word “border” a full seven times in his seven and a half-minute campaign announcement in mid-June, and his proposal to build a wall on our southern border has been a major theme in the GOP primary season thus far. Before he dropped out of the race, Republican Gov. Scott Walker said that another wall — this one on the northern U.S. border with Canada — might also be needed. Yet while we see our own borders as inviolable, we seemingly have few issues deploying American power across others’ sovereign lines as soon as we deem any threat exists to our security or economic interests."

Comments

This article was originally published in War on the Rocks in October 2015.

Recommended Citation

Daddis, Gregory A., “Are Our Borders Better Than Your Borders?” War on the Rocks (October 2015), http://warontherocks.com/2015/10/are-our-borders-better-than-your-borders.

Copyright

War on the Rocks