Mansions have walls/hedges for lots of reasons: privacy, sound isolation, blocking unsightly views and sure perhaps some security. None of that has anything to do with whether we should build the world's longest modern wall to help enforce immigration policy. Sure they are both walls but that's where the similarity ends.
Example 1: Mansion walls are unlikely to create diplomatic tensions with one of the US's major trading partners whereas a wall with Mexico would likely do that.
Example 2: The Mexican wall will likely require lots of eminent domain seizures of private land. Mansions walls require none.
Example 3: The mexican wall will impact net flows of illegal migrants between the US and Mexico. Private walls do not.
Sane arguments for or against this wall are inapplicable to private walls. This equivalency is pointless. Your argument is spurious.
Basically gated communities shield you from some kinds of crime. If you think Mexican immigrants are causing lots of crime then you should also think people in Maine or Michigan shouldn't have much say because of the lower concentrations of immigrants there.
Whenever I mention how the corporate Dems have been selling us out for years and we need to light a fire under their ass to work for our interests, I'm immediately ostracized from my fellow "progressives."
Avoiding a hot war in Eastern Europe is worth the people affected by the new immigration bans.
I am in favor of peace as it is the best state for humanity to strive. But to maintain peace, we must have a good strategy, not a call to people like Putin such as "Please do anything you like".
I think Obama and his advisers sorely missed someone like a Condoleezza or a Cohen, etc. people who would give him some good insight into Putin's thinking and why he acts the way he does.
I mean, at the end of the Obama presidency US-Russia relations were hotting up beyond my comfort.
Maybe, just maybe, these sons and daughters of immigrants and refugees are just as disgusted by the actions of Trump (and Bannon) as the millions of others.
The Valley isn't going to be hosting migrants and they aren't going to be competing against unskilled migrant labour.
Why is it walls are just fine around LAs mansion estates and in closed gated communities, but as soon as the general populace wants them they become bad?