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Ways To End Future Caravans
Townhall.com ^ | October 25, 2018 | Derek Hunter

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: caravan; hondurascaravan; illegalsinvasion
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To: Kaslin

NO WELFARE.....NO EDUCATION.....NO HEALTHCARE.....PERIOD!!!! THAT WILL STOP THEM!!


21 posted on 10/25/2018 9:47:30 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gaijin

U ain’t suggesting we hire someone who can,and would, put the cartels out of business, ARE YOU?


22 posted on 10/25/2018 9:47:37 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Kaslin
Just let it get longer and longer.

Tell the agents to visibly take extravantly long breaks:


23 posted on 10/25/2018 9:49:22 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: DCBryan1

Better still, spray them with hot, soapy water.


24 posted on 10/25/2018 9:49:53 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: DCBryan1
"Dust them every day and night with CS or CR gas"


25 posted on 10/25/2018 9:53:55 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Kaslin
Use the element of Surprise!


26 posted on 10/25/2018 9:58:14 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Kaslin
The solution is to end catch and release and instead do catch and house in a make shift refugee camp near the border and feed them MRE's until adjudicated and repatriated.

We will only have to do this a few times then the message will get out.

27 posted on 10/25/2018 9:58:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

they would scream like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.


28 posted on 10/25/2018 10:02:58 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Kaslin

Here’s my take on this invasion from South America, - and my
Win Win solution.

President Trump needs to approach N. Korea Kim Jung-who?
Find out if Kim Jung would be willing to defend our Southern
border with his massive Army that he’s built up.

No formal treaty needed, - just let Kim know that this is his chance to become a Global Player, and it’s a worth while venture on his part.

Here’s the Art of the verbal Deal...…..
The NK army defends the Southern US border with whatever means they deem necessary to keep illegals out from violating our laws. (Excluding Nuclear Weapons of Course)

In return (should) Kim and his well trained NK Army, decide to occupy the southern half of the Baja Peninsula, (Which btw, is/has some of the most fertile soil on the globe for farming). IN Short, let NK know that we ….. the US will just look the other way should this happen? Also, let Kim
know that the US would be more than happy to help NK build desalination Plants (powered by Nuclear power plants) to meet the need for fresh water irrigation etc., Kim and his country need food and fresh water is always appreciated by NK’s step mother ….China.

What ever happens / or whatever the MMM says about it, - President Trump can say …”Go talk to KIM.” The US is innocent and we’re on watching, the same way Mexico is watching our Country be invaded ….. over and over and over again.
There isn’t a Caravan on this Planet that will risk advancing themselves on the NK Army. This is a Win Win all the way around.

Go Trump GO! - President Trump loves to be a Negotiator, so,
Negotiate away.

Just tell Congress to go back to sleep, - Problem solved!


29 posted on 10/25/2018 10:03:10 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Kaslin

I wonder why the US can’t just withdraw from the UN 1951 Refugee Convention and repeal the The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212)

The UN Convention is a vestige of WWII. The 1980 law no longer serves the national interest because the Cold War has ended.

The Internet and advances in transportation have unleashed limitless demand for a fist world life and the means to get to it.


30 posted on 10/25/2018 10:14:00 AM PDT by grasshopper2
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To: EnglishOnly

High pressure water hoses at the border. Rio Grande is right there as a water source. Make ‘em true wetbacks.


31 posted on 10/25/2018 10:14:51 AM PDT by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: DCBryan1

Hadn’t thought of that. I was thinking of damaging all the trucks they ride on, maybe a whole series of sonic booms from F-16’s doing low passes and something to make the water undrinkable.

A few years ago, I had a possum coming into my yard. I shot him so many times with a BB gun, it encouraged him to leave.


32 posted on 10/25/2018 10:26:07 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: central_va

NO. The problem with catch and release and with your plan is that the invaders are alive to try again.

Anyone attacking our border is an enemy and should be dealt with as such.

Let them know that ANYONE approaching our border will be killed, and then kill those who approach our border.

Eventually we will kill them all or the wise ones will realize that only death waits for them here and they will turn around and go away.

Bullets are cheap. We need to use a lot of them.


33 posted on 10/25/2018 10:30:36 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: John O

One last thing. The way to deal with ANY invasive species is to totally eradicate it, lest it reproduce. Same as kudzu or the pythons in the everglades.


34 posted on 10/25/2018 10:33:47 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: South Dakota

I am not saying it’s right, but I am certain it would work.


35 posted on 10/25/2018 10:38:29 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: John O

My hubby’s solution this morning. Shoot everyone coming across illegally.

Eventually, they will stop coming illegally.


36 posted on 10/25/2018 10:43:24 AM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Kaslin
That's easy - Border security
no anchor baby citizenship
no welfare or foodstamps
no jobs, strict enforcement with employers, heavy fines

take away the reasons they want to come here.

37 posted on 10/25/2018 10:45:48 AM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: John O
Anyone attacking our border is an enemy and should be dealt with as such.

Cut down on the caffeine. Catch and hold. Do it once, twice then it's over. They quit coming. Who is going to walk 1,500 for a three week stay in a tent and MRE's only to be returned home?

38 posted on 10/25/2018 11:04:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Kaslin

Warthogs.


39 posted on 10/25/2018 11:29:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Join the #nationalprogressivecaucus #MOB and #Resist! just like everyone else.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Someone needs to post a few signs and spread the rumor that all incoming illegal males will be neutered upon entering as we are running out of room to house everyone.
I imagine a large number will actually believe this.


40 posted on 10/25/2018 1:51:53 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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