Ron Paul: A border fence might be used to keep Americans from fleeing to Mexico, or something

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - And now for a lighter moment from last night’s debate, or at least the weirdest moment.  Jim Hoft calls this Ron Paul’s Checkpoint Charlie moment, but it’s really more like an apex of Paul’s paranoid band of libertarianism. In this exchange, Paul opposes building a border fence because he doesn’t believe it represents American values, which is a fair enough argument that one usually hears from Democrats. He then tips over into hilarity when he suggests that the US government might use it to stop Americans from fleeing to, er, Mexico: