Posted on 10/25/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Right now, there are untold thousands of aspiring illegal aliens from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and countless other hellholes in South and Central America marching thousands of miles through Mexico hoping to be greeted by warm hugs and free legal representation from liberals at our southern border. It’s called a “caravan,” because “invading horde” is a little too “on the nose” for the liberal media to report. Whatever you call it, it has to not only be stopped, they have to be prevented from happing again in the future. But how?
There are obvious ways like building a wall and streamlining the deportation process. But there are more, less obvious ways, too. Here are some suggestions.
We can incentivize Mexico to care.
Mexico doesn’t care that tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of illegal aliens march through their country on the way to the US every year, and they really have no reason to. If they were stopping in Mexico they’d be tossed out like yesterday’s garbage, as Mexico actually enforces its immigration laws. Since they aren’t, and it’s a way to stick a thumb in the eye of President Trump, the government looks the other way.
But we have an advantage. Mexico is dependent upon the United States for a great many things, none more important than the money Mexican nationals here legally and the millions of illegal alien Mexicans send back home to their families every day. We can tax that. Hell, we can stop it. That would get the government’s attention and help prevent the invaders from receiving a 1700 mile police escort.
We can punish people who hire them.
Democrats are never going to care about the invasion, they see only potential voters in the uneducated and illiterate in their own language masses (to say nothing of being able to communicate in English) and that’s all they care about. Voters have to make them care. Voters also have to make squishy Republicans care.
Both parties support illegal immigration, Democrats just do it uniformly while only some Republicans are on board. A bipartisan cadre of rich donors love cheap labor, and people who feel more than they think like to pretend they’re being compassionate. But artificially depressing wages isn’t compassionate.
Serious fines for employers who hire illegal aliens, and I’m talking company-threatening fines, would make work nearly impossible to find and dry up a major part of their incentive to be here. This would likely have to be coupled with work requirements for welfare recipients, especially in times of full employment like now, but those should be in place anyway.
By making hiring illegal aliens so unattractive, and dangerous, they’d have little to come here for.
End birthright citizenship.
Your geography of birth should have nothing to do with citizenship, and it was never meant to. Liberals bastardized our laws to create this mess, it’s time to fix it. It may sound heartless, but I don’t care. I care about Americans first and anyone else a distant second.
American taxpayers are on the hook for a fortune every year just covering the cost of births of illegals, and “birth tourism” from Asia, particularly China, is a very real thing. It’s crazy, and no other nation on the planet has such a stupid system. It has to end.
The US has to take a more active role in Latin America.
The carrot and stick approach can be very useful here. We send a lot of money south in foreign aid. That blind system should end. If governments are corrupt, cut them off; if they won’t control the chaos within their own borders to the point that people flee en masse, cut them off. When the Soviet Union was a threat it might have made sense to deal with despots. But the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore. If we’re going to offer aid it must come with strings attached.
We need to shun corrupt leaders and embrace good ones. If the people of the region see that positive change is possible maybe they’ll stay and fight for it in their countries (especially if we make coming here unappealing).
Right now, Brazil is sitting at a crossroads. They will either go further down the leftist corruption path or elect a reformer who will stand up to corruption. The election is this weekend, and its outcome can either serve as an example or a cautionary tale. Candidate Jair Bolsonaro could be the Donald Trump of Brazil – brash and blunt, promising to fight the corruption that has plagued their government and the region, while pledging to end the violence that has gripped the country for decades.
Whether he succeeds or not will have to be seen, but we should embrace Bolsonaro as an example of what countries in the region should be doing. We can’t fix their problems, but we sure can help leaders who are willing to fight to fix it themselves.
The U.S. serves as an escape hatch for hellholes in Latin America, our virtual open border relieves pressure on corrupt governments because it gives concerned citizens a place to go. That escape hatch provides a disincentive for people to stay home and fight for themselves and their country. We need to seal that hatch while offering help to those willing to fight for a better life at home.
It won’t be easy, institutional corruption is never easy to defeat. But Brazil may be on the verge of proving it is possible. If Bolsonaro wins and sticks to his word, the United States should embrace his administration and work with people in other countries based on the Brazil model. By making the continent a better place to live and do business, “caravans” would go the way of the Dodo.
The invading horde isn’t running here as much as they are running away from what President Trump once correctly referred to as “s-hole countries.” But those hordes clearly have national pride, why else would they march proudly with flags of the nations they are fleeing? By combining disincentives for breaching our sovereignty with the prospect of help in reforming their home countries, coupled with nudging Mexico to help, we can stop future invasions before they start. That would be win-win for everyone, except the political mega-donors for both parties and the Democratic Party who will have wasted money printing voter registration forms for when amnesty was granted, which would make it a double win for the American people.
Dust them every day and night with CS or CR gas with crop dusters........they’ll turn around.
Also start bombing bridges and rails to send a message to Mexico.
I think we already have laws against hiring, renting to them, etc.
Make the homeless here and they will be better off in THEIR homes
The Walking Deadbeats.
Identify anyone inciting, aiding or abetting this challenge to our laws, and prosecute them to the fullest extent. Soros & the like are not above the law, and seeking ways to undermine our laws is not an exercise in free speech.
Build the Wall, a real wall or fence that is so strong and so secure that the invaders will think twice before heading el norte’.
1) Follow through with Trump’s initial threat and CUT OFF ALL FOREIGN AID to Honduras and Guatemala. They must be made to pay a price for their inaction if we expect others to stop future caravans.
2) Let Mexico know that we will SHUT DOWN THE BORDER to ALL TRAFFIC AND EXPORTS and SUSPEND ALL WIRE TRANFERS OF MONEY TO MEXICO anytime a caravan is headed our way. Elites there will get their minds right once they see us standing on their economic air hose.
3) It goes without saying, BUILD THE DAMNED WALL!
<> Undercover DEA agent Kiki Camerena, abducted by the cartels. The backed up traffic stretched for TENS of miles, the pressure was incredible. Historically unprecidented, over a single guy.
An invasion by 15,000 people is less of an emergency..?
The US military did one time go all the way to Mexico City, and they occupied it.
We basically already do what Derek proposes.
We need to change the way “asylum” is dealt with at the border. If you don’t change it, all 14,000 of these people will walk straight into the US to stay, no matter how many troops we put on the border. Build all the tent cities for them you want, in 20 days they’ll just be released into the population.
Unless we change “asylum”. Unless you are a politician on the run from your government’s hit squads, you don’t qualify. If you are a farmer from the banana republics, you don’t qualify... and most important, it shouldn’t take a judge to declare it, this is something the first line Border guard at the gate can decide... or at the very most, his shift supervisor.
Make that change, and our existing border guards can stop the entire 14000 man army approaching the border. Fail to make that change, and a hundred foot wall won’t stop them.
Wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for it anyway? How quickly that was dropped.
A 10s along the border.
When the invaders approach, buzz them, then open fire on the border
Pres. Trump’s moment of truth is rapidly approaching. This is his biggest test yet. Pray for this nation.
“Ways To End Future Hordes”
Caravan is a Dodge minivan.
The traditional solution is to execute illegal border crossers as spies.
We should have slaughtered the first group to try this stunt. It would have prevented a lot of unnecessary deaths in the future, when we’re forced to do so to repel 100k+ human wave attacks.
Target the individuals and organizations that organize/support the caravans.
Punish participants. Make an example of caravan that deters people from joining future caravans.
A 10s along the border.
When the invaders approach, buzz them, then open fire on the border
When groups of Mexican guys are no longer hanging around staring at cars visiting Home Depot, I’ll maybe believe the feds will properly use the military against an impending invasion.
We’re talking about using the military at a point we can’t secure our own backyard.
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