Here’s my take.
Both the government and the nation will lose if there is any violent confrontation, accidental or otherwise, that results in migrant women or children being harmed. Such an event could easily be the trigger that implodes our country or could even lead to world war.
If you accept that premise, then you’ll agree that our only way out of this mess without making a YUGE mess will require some out-of-the-box thinking. I’m about as far out of the box as one can get and still be walking the streets, so here goes.
I think our military should meet these folks at the border with open arms and politely explain that we will NOT be granting any of them asylum, amnesty, citizenship or anything else except 3 options:
1. Go home (as some already have)
2. Apply for asylum in Mexico (as some already have)
3. Apply for asylum in Canada.
wait, wut??? Asylum in Canada? How does that work.
Simple. (cept for the pesky details)
1. We offer to escort them, en masse, quickly and safely to the Canadian border…say near Vancouver. Isn’t this pretty much what the Mexicans have done, with assistance from certain organizations and even the United Nations? Well shucky darn, why can’t we do the same? What’s good for the Mexican is good for the Yankee, right? Heck, those organizations and the UN can help offset the cost! The US is no place for poor oppressed refugees anyway…according to the press clippings we are the Great Satan and fixing to implode economically and politically as a nation…why would anyone want to try to start over in an obviously dying empire? Canada is the place they outta be, Jed!
2. Oh my, what if Canada won’t take them? Hmmm…that seems like their problem…and that of the UN and everyone else who uprooted these folks to make this journey for asylum from their home countries. I’m sure the UN and all those organizations, now joined by our own government, will put plenty of pressure on those mean Canucks to take in all these good people, right? Maybe some nice resolutions and sanctions will help them see the light.
3. So in the meantime, while we spend hours/days/months/years negotiating and bullying Canada to let these people in, we still have all these people here. Yes we will, but not nearly many as we’d have if we were forced to fold and take them in. Word gets around…I know I wouldn’t be too thrilled to volunteer for a long journey to some refugee camp on the US-Canadian border. The number of follow-up caravans will dwindle to nothing. Yes, that’s where we’re going to have to keep those that accept our offer of escort to Canada – refugee camps, preferably right on the Canadian border. Would you want travel thousands of miles to rot in a refugee camp where they have, OMG WINTER!! Me thinks not many will want to take the Canada option.
4. Of course the classic refugee camp isn’t our only option. There are a lot of good, migrant-loving, progressive people living in the northwest US. I am sure a city like Seattle, proud of its progressive creds, would be thrilled to take thousands of poor, hapless, refugees into their homes and public spaces, right? Costs? No worries, once again the fine people in the UN and all the organizations currently funding these caravans will step in to foot the bill…because they really, sincerely care about these people, right? It’s just temporary…until Canada grants them asylum! Hmm, I also see a business opportunity here…coyotes don’t just live in the southwest…I’m sure lots of enterprising folks will earn extra income smuggling asylum seekers into Canada! Whoa, maybe Detroit would be a better location, lord knows half the state of Michigan could use more economic opportunities!
So there is is….we don’t stop them, we simply escort them to a better destination – CANADA!
As Confucius would have said if he were me, “When in between rock and hard place, climb rock and toss in enemy.”
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Old Jarhead.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Old Jarhead.