BY IAN MORRIS

The new year could be, among other things, the Year of the Wall. President-elect Donald Trump is likely to be under pressure to honor his campaign promise to build a wall (or at least a fence) between the United States and Mexico along every inch of their 1,933-mile shared border. Few of his plans have drawn quite so much criticism, but history suggests that there is a certain method behind his apparent madness.

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