First a Wall -- Then Amnesty
Not that I disagree with a wall, but maybe we should change the terms of the debate. Why not let everyone in again? I'm sure many of today's pundits ancestors came over when there were little or no immigration laws restricting entry. Let's make it easy to gain entry into the country.
Why pay a coyote $1,700 when you could come over legally for $500. Walk across the border, fill out some forms, take an oath, and your on your way to American citizenship. If you want to get bad about it, why not use technology (RFID) on new immigrants).
You eliminate the problem of spending a ridiculous amount of energy in watching the border. You keep track of everyone. You earn some money. You save lives. You reenergize your cities, towns and rural areas (see the free land towns are giving away on the Plains).
Now the cost to society to educate and heal them could be offset by what you save on enforcement that doesn't work. However, realistically, it will cost more money in the short-run. But in the long-run we will make a stronger country filled with people willing to sacrifice everything to get here. Aren't those the kind of people we want to be fellow citizens? Taxpaying, legal immigrants that want a better life for their kids?
Not that I disagree with a wall, but maybe we should change the terms of the debate. Why not let everyone in again? I'm sure many of today's pundits ancestors came over when there were little or no immigration laws restricting entry. Let's make it easy to gain entry into the country.
Why pay a coyote $1,700 when you could come over legally for $500. Walk across the border, fill out some forms, take an oath, and your on your way to American citizenship. If you want to get bad about it, why not use technology (RFID) on new immigrants).
You eliminate the problem of spending a ridiculous amount of energy in watching the border. You keep track of everyone. You earn some money. You save lives. You reenergize your cities, towns and rural areas (see the free land towns are giving away on the Plains).
Now the cost to society to educate and heal them could be offset by what you save on enforcement that doesn't work. However, realistically, it will cost more money in the short-run. But in the long-run we will make a stronger country filled with people willing to sacrifice everything to get here. Aren't those the kind of people we want to be fellow citizens? Taxpaying, legal immigrants that want a better life for their kids?
posted by Spud at 9:39 AM
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