Krauthammer: ‘If Fences Don’t Work, Why Is There One Around the White House?’

Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer detects some hypocrisy in President Barack Obama’s reluctance to build a fence along the entire border between the United States and Mexico. After all, he asked on The O’Reilly Factor Tuesday night, “If fences don’t 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,” O’Reilly asked. “You start with a fence,” he replied.

“People say, ‘Oh, fences don’t 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 don’t work, why is there one around the White House?” he asked. “If they don’t 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 it’s 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.

Watch video below, via Fox News:

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