From a reader:

Dear Mr. Goldberg
I agree with your column entirely.
My comment has to do with our fellow conservative friends at the Wall Street
Journal Editorial department who, surprisingly, participate in this cheap & completely false analogy of the Berlin Wall – but not in reference to the Israeli security barrier but in reference to any wall placed on the U.S. Mexican border (WSJ 2/6/04, Op-Ed “Immigrants & Optimists” was one of at
least two such references).
Now, I’m a big fan of the WSJ opinion page as I’ll guess you likely are, too. I will say my views on U.S. immigration are much more closely aligned with NRO’s – whom the Journal editors loosely & repeatedly (and haphazardly I might add) refer to as so-called “restrictionists”. But immigration policy per se’ is not my point.
I’ve never suggested building a huge wall all along our long southern border
but simply find irritating the Journal Editors’ repeated reference that any such wall would be like a “Berlin Wall”.
Mr. Goldberg they won’t listen to me. Perhaps you could send them a copy of your column here personally signed and gently explaining that for this immigration wall to have ANY valid reference to the Berlin Wall it would have to be for the express intent of keeping Texans and Californians IN not
keeping foreigners OUT. The editors are smart conservative folks – what are
they thinking?
Thanks for listening,