Illegal Problem-Solving
The real problem we face is this: how do we corral all 20 million illegals, ship them back to Mexico to do a ‘do-over’ and start to run them through the immigration portals the right way and with all their legal papers in tow?
Abraham Lincoln proposed such a solution to the ‘slave problem’ as late as 1858: ‘Put them all on boats and ship them back to Africa.” Lincoln, at his core, would have done anything to avoid the coming Civil War he knew was brewing and keep the Union intact.
But here were his problems back then, which are eerily similar to the ones we face today:
1) The cost would have been exorbitant at the time and equivalent to the entire annual US defense budget back then. (This could easily cost over $10,000 per illegal to round up, process and send back to Mexico, or up to $200 billion by quick calculations.)
2) The economy of the entire South would have collapsed like a failed souffle and they would have had to traipse to Washington for an economic bailout like the one we just had. (Have you ever paid any illegal citizen to do any yard work, remodeling or anything for you at home, school or business? Be honest..in some cases, you might just not know for sure.)
I have often wondered what the economic impact would have been during the 90’s and 2000’s so far, had we not had up to these 20 million people come to the United States. Forget the upsurge in consumption of tacos and burritos across the land by some of the very same people who are vehemently against illegals from Latin America. We have had close to 45 million abortions in this country since 1973, many of whom would be around the prime consumption period of their lives of between 25-35 years of age right now. Would the population of America have actually decreased over the last two decades without this surge in illegal immigrants and therefore, would we have had negative economic ‘growth’ instead of booming prosperity, (for the most part excepting the last two years…and counting)?
Once again, just like the BP oil spill, we can point our fingers wherever we want but that finger better be pretty darned long because eventually, it always, always, always comes back to us as the most consumption-driven humanoids to ever populate this green earth and walk on our hind two legs.
So while it is ideologically pure to rail against the illegals, what are the practical ways we should go about dealing with the facts as they are, and not what any of us wish they were or could be?
First of all, you can stop paying cash for illegal citizens to do work for you. Anywhere.
Second, you can demand to see the green card of any person you hire to do any work for you.
Third, you can ask anyone you buy anything from if they use illegal immigrants to do any work for them.
Fourth, you can call your representatives in Congress and tell them you don’t mind having them raise your taxes to pay for the repatriation of these illegals cause we don’t have the resources to do it any more. Wall Street and Detroit soaked up our last few remaining shekels it seems, if there were any left that is.
I’m open to any suggestions or plans, and only ask that you present solutions to the facts as they are today, not what they were 30 years ago or what you ‘wish’ they were today.
There are no easy or simple solutions. If there were, we would have already have passed them into law. Maybe…unless the current crowd in Congress is made up of a majority of the 10% of the certifiably insane, as noted above.
As engineers are always taught to say: “Work the problem, people! Not how we got here.”
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