Forget the wall — Democrats now hate the border itself

Nancy Pelosi deems the wall “immoral.” She sounds like West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt condemning the Berlin Wall as the “Wall of Shame” — when the East Germans built their border barrier to keep people in, whereas we only want to keep illegal entrants out.

If a wall is immoral, what standing does the current 350 miles of primary fencing have? Isn’t it just as hateful as what Trump proposes? The $5 billion the president wants wouldn’t even match what we already have — it would construct about 150 miles of new barriers where none currently ­exist.

A wall or fencing is relatively mild as far as immigration ­enforcement goes. It doesn’t ­involve deporting anyone. It doesn’t separate families. It doesn’t prosecute and detain anyone. It doesn’t deny any illegal immigrant currently working in the US a job.

All it does is seek to avoid getting in a situation where these other things are necessary in the first place.