Rachel St. John

He was ordered to halt by American officials.

And violence broke out actually between the two sides of the border.

It was chaos.

But the damage was done.

And that leads a lot of government officials along the border to say, we need a fence.

We need to be really clear about marking this space.

Whenever I think about this, I think of the Robert Frost poem where he talks about how good fences make good neighbors, right?

That these fences are built in a very different mindset than the border wall of today.

This is not seen as an imposition by the U.S.

government on Mexico, but rather a joint effort to better demarcate where Mexican and American space end.

No one cared about immigration at all on the U.S.-Mexico border until the very late part of the 19th century.