Deconquista
Sometimes the solution to a problem is rather counter-intuitive. Don’t want to get the flu? Get the flu injected right into your bloodstream, albeit with a fight-fire-with-a-different-kind-of-fire adjustment. Don’t want to be involved in wars? Then build and maintain a big, bad military. Don’t want illegal immigrants? Then don’t let them leave.
That’s right. We hear about fences and more patrollers and sanctions on employers and fake-ID makers. That’s all fine and good. Each addresses a specific problem with current policy—fences are absent, broken, or too-lame to matter; patrollers are scant; and the US-side criminal abettors don’t face any real penalty for their abetting. Now all of these measures are aimed at upgrading our ability to stop or catch the illegal aliens. But what do we do once the targets are caught? Same as always—put them on a bus and send them back home so they can do some stretches, take a nap, and come back again tomorrow. The illegal-immigrant-serial-killer Resendez was caught and released 17 times. 17 times! Finally they caught him… and kept him. Seems that the serial killing part was considered serious after the 16th time. He doesn’t need to come back again, because now he can’t leave. So, the obvious question to ponder, is What if we had locked him up for good the first time he was caught? How many people would not have been serial killed?
Here’s the plan: When illegals are caught creeping in or already here, they are interned—Gitmo style. Not abusively, not cruelly, but pragmatically and indefinitely. The last part is really important: Indefinitely. Camps where the enemy combatants (they are non-US citizens, combating law and order in the United States) can be concentrated (whatever should we call them?) will be established in suitable places. These can be cheaply established using Arpaionian-Maricopan Penal Architecture. In the desert with tents and cots. No dollars to send home, no you to go home, no opportunity to try again or even to make another try at making it work back home. No free college for the kiddies— they do get sent home. And no welfare benefits, we’ll provide the bologna sam’iches and pink undies directly. In fact, the potential traveler might conclude, he has a very good chance of making the family’s—and probably his own—situation far worse than it is here in San Filinda Blanco, or Fa On Gong, or Sandi al-Daway You tried to get in, you got caught, and now you are here at the Permanent Chapter of the World Scout Jamboree for who knows how long. Welcome to America.
Sometimes the solution to a problem is rather counter-intuitive. Don’t want to get the flu? Get the flu injected right into your bloodstream, albeit with a fight-fire-with-a-different-kind-of-fire adjustment. Don’t want to be involved in wars? Then build and maintain a big, bad military. Don’t want illegal immigrants? Then don’t let them leave.
That’s right. We hear about fences and more patrollers and sanctions on employers and fake-ID makers. That’s all fine and good. Each addresses a specific problem with current policy—fences are absent, broken, or too-lame to matter; patrollers are scant; and the US-side criminal abettors don’t face any real penalty for their abetting. Now all of these measures are aimed at upgrading our ability to stop or catch the illegal aliens. But what do we do once the targets are caught? Same as always—put them on a bus and send them back home so they can do some stretches, take a nap, and come back again tomorrow. The illegal-immigrant-serial-killer Resendez was caught and released 17 times. 17 times! Finally they caught him… and kept him. Seems that the serial killing part was considered serious after the 16th time. He doesn’t need to come back again, because now he can’t leave. So, the obvious question to ponder, is What if we had locked him up for good the first time he was caught? How many people would not have been serial killed?
Here’s the plan: When illegals are caught creeping in or already here, they are interned—Gitmo style. Not abusively, not cruelly, but pragmatically and indefinitely. The last part is really important: Indefinitely. Camps where the enemy combatants (they are non-US citizens, combating law and order in the United States) can be concentrated (whatever should we call them?) will be established in suitable places. These can be cheaply established using Arpaionian-Maricopan Penal Architecture. In the desert with tents and cots. No dollars to send home, no you to go home, no opportunity to try again or even to make another try at making it work back home. No free college for the kiddies— they do get sent home. And no welfare benefits, we’ll provide the bologna sam’iches and pink undies directly. In fact, the potential traveler might conclude, he has a very good chance of making the family’s—and probably his own—situation far worse than it is here in San Filinda Blanco, or Fa On Gong, or Sandi al-Daway You tried to get in, you got caught, and now you are here at the Permanent Chapter of the World Scout Jamboree for who knows how long. Welcome to America.
posted by the wrightist at 2:30 PM
1 Comments:
Actually, we have periodically returned people to the interior of Mexico or to different points on the border in order to make return more difficult.
For that matter, the significant number of other than Mexican aliens all face significant journeys back to the US once deported to their homeland (Mexico doesn't take Guatamalans and so forth, so we send them all the way home).
Even with tents and cots, I think this plan would be to expensive.
More realistically, perhaps we could treat illegal entry as a crime rather than grant "voluntary departure", which is what is actually happening in most of the instances that you're thinking about. If we were to do that, then anyone caught entering illegally would no longer be eligible of legal entry or residence, which would be a significant penalty.
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