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    "title": "A Wall That Keeps \"Them\" Out, Keeps \"Us\" In",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Immigration",
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    "created": "2011-08-18 18:53:59 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Most of us opponents of a wall have focused on the idea that the wall is meant to \"wall out\" immigrants. But we just observed the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, a wall that was meant to, and did, \"wall in\" residents. I think I remember co-blogger Bryan worrying that a wall on the border with Mexico might wall us in. I think this is a serious worry. If, 20 years ago, you had asked me if a U.S. president would try to persuade the head of a totalitarian country to reinstitute restrictions on residents leaving that country, I would have said \"No way.\" Yet three years later that's exactly what President Clinton persuaded Fidel Castro to do.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/08/robert_frost_an.html\">Robert Frost and Michele Bachmann on Walls, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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