Ron Paul’s Border Fence Nightmare

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Ron Paul just took a rather original line against the proposed border fence. On stage at the Reagan Library he fretted that it’s not to keep Mexicans out, “but to keep us in.”

He worried that in a time of economic turmoil the federal government could use it as a means of preventing the American people from leaving “with their capital.”

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