�Mr President, don�t build this wall!�
Berlin�s mayor urges Trump to learn from
history.
Berlin Mayor Michael M�ller has just sent
President Donald Trump a message about his
proposed Mexican border wall.
As the mayor of the iconic German city that
was divided by an imposing wall for almost
three decades, Muller is in good position
to offer advice.
"Berlin, the city of the division of Europe,
the city of freedom of Europe, cannot look
without comment when a country plans to build
a new wall,� M�ller said in a statement
Friday.
�We Berliners know best how much suffering
a division of an entire continent, cemented
by barbed wire and wall, has caused.
Millions of people have been seized by this
division of life.
In the end, we, the people, have overcome
this division, and it is one of the 20th century's
star-studded hours when, at the Brandenburger
Tor, the most important symbol of the division,
people conquered the Wall and then removed
them piece by piece.
The Brandenburg Gate stands for the spirit
of freedom!"
Trump began moves to deliver on his campaign
promise to build a wall at the Mexican border
this week, signing an executive order for
federal agencies to begin constructing the
nearly 2,000-mile structure.
When Trump said he would raise a 20 percent
tax on Mexican imports to cover the cost of
the wall, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto
canceled his planned visit to the White House.
"Today, at the beginning of the 21st century,
we cannot simply accept it if all our historical
experiences are thrown over by those to whom
we largely owe our freedom, the Americans,�
M�ller�s statement continued.
�I appeal to the President of the United
States not to go this way of foreclosure and
exclusion.
Wherever such borders still exist today in
Korea, in Cyprus, they create unfreedom and
suffering.�
M�ller ended his statement with a reminder
of the words of US President Ronald Reagan,
who in 1987 called on Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev to take down the Berlin Wall.
�Remember his words: 'Tear down this wall,'�
M�ller said.
�And so I say: Dear Mr. President, don't
build 
this wall!"
