How Trump Should Handle the "Caravan"
OK, this is tongue-in-cheek so don't get upset. But, I was discussing this with a colleague yesterday. We're both Californians looking to get out as this place slides into disaster. I joked that Trump, rather than grant the media some sort of photo of oppressed babies at the border, should protect only the non-California border. He could grant full and peaceful passage straight into the State who really wants these people - California. He can even get a big federal contract with Greyhound to bus these folks to their California city of choice (from a select list). As we welcome them into our collectivist heaven each family can be lovingly handed a menu of cities to select from. It could include San Francisco (what a beautiful city!), Beverly Hills, Malibu, Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, anyplace in Marin County. Of course, Trump might want to consider placing security along the California border. But...this would give everybody exactly what they want. Our leaders want these people. These nice folks would get free passage into a very beautiful place, focusing on the towns where they've gotten the most political support.
More seriously - and I may have said it here before - Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution says the Congress has authority to suspend Habeas Corpus to protect the people in the event of Rebellion or Invasion. This should be a first step.
And now for my tongue-in-cheek idea: Since Democrat activists have actively or passively encouraged attacks on Republicans at their homes, these invaders should be transported 100 at a time to the homes of the "no borders" activists and politicians, then told they can get free food and lodging simply by invading the property. First should be the multi-million dollar home of Maxine Waters, followed by the home of the Mayor of Stockton, CA and Governor Brown's home. I'm sure at least 10,000 invaders could be accommodated this way across the nation. Call it the Trump Induced Compassion (TIC) Campaign.
Here's the reality of the situation: They aren't asylum seekers, they are rabble-rousers and invaders. They are being financed by leftists to cause a stir and are seeking to exploit our porous border and ridiculous immigration laws. Personally, I would rather treat them like the invading army they are and repel them at the border using force - lethal if necessary. If they are that brazen and willing to ignore our immigration laws now, how willing are they going to be to abide by the rest of our laws? Answer: they aren't interested. And neither should we be interested in tolerating their shenanigans. Let's put an end to this demonstratively.
The chattering classes (the left) say all refugees should be admitted. After entry the refugees are entitled to all welfare benefits as available to citizens, or more.
Members of the caravan have been interviewed (cannot find the source at the moment). They want to enter the US to work, to earn money, to send to family to alleviate poverty.
Now I support the right of a nation to guard borders, and to decide on who enters, but consider your nation fortunate when would-be-migrants want to work!
Here is another tongue-in-cheek suggestion- Give them all a 2-year contract as laborers on wall building. A big bonus is put aside for those who stay the contract and is paid after departure.
This is a well-organized and dishonest political maneuver before the election, not a group of people who happen at the same time to want work, with no government benefits expected to be part of their 'pay'. It includes a range from those paid to go to utopia with no clue about the intent, to activists and provocateurs planted and pretending to be ordinary 'workers'.
The intent of the organizers is to provoke violence against masses of naive 'innocents' right before the election in order to embarrass and discredit Trump, and to 'radicalize' potential followers, just like the New Left did in the violent protests at universities beginning in the 1960s. The leaders pretended to be innocent 'peace' seekers but connived to provoke the police to act violently against their own followers to 'radicalize' them and those watching.
If Trump and the military are not very careful and don't make the proper principled statements and act appropriately, then Trump can't win. Either masses of illiterates with little or not skills get into the country and set a precedent for much larger masses, or Trump is seen as Adolf Hitler massacring innocent civilians -- or both.
Yes. But is it just me? I see some irony here, the progressives say,
Refugees must be allowed in.
But here apparently is one of the caravan saying, We are job seekers!
If refugees, one set of rules. If job seekers, another set of rules,
here are the forms, state your details and abilities, the fee is $x,
we will get back to you, and- we can say, No.
They are also package-dealing 'job seeker' with 'improving their financial well being' by whatever subsidies they can get, assumed to be part of being in the country in addition to earned wages.
All applications for asylum must be filed with the U.S. embassy or consulate in the country in which the applicant is a citizen (or in the nearest, safe foreign country). Anyone entering the U. S. or its territories prior to approval of such an application, will be returned.
Another thought I had was send the illegals straight to the Yukon with only the basic of supplies (Parachute, knife, 1 small pack of matches). They can stay in the U.S. and become citizens if they can withstand and survive one of the harshest environments the U.S. has to offer, after 7 years.
In a lot of countries, a caravan like this would be shot as they tried to run the border. I wouldnt want to storm the usa-canada border. I would get returned to the USA perios, and if I was in a caravan, they would round us all up with the police and force us back after perhaps being thrown in regular jail if we didnt leave willingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9p5n...
Somehow once the caravaners figure out that they can't cross into the US, I have a hunch Mexico will send them home, or at least back to Guatemala.
We all know that this would be political suicide, there has to be something else we can do.
I think we need to make illegal immigration a negative for the left. Why does the left want as many illegals as possible into the United States? The answer is simple!!! The more people they cram into a state gives that state a more powerful Electoral College. It is a simple fix. Let the census reflect the population of each state but only citizens are counted for Electoral College representation. Cali is one of the most populated states and has a very large Electoral College representation. Remove the incentive and cure the problem...
They want illegals voting and otherwise counted for representation because they want the global welfare statism and ethnic tribalism, not the other way around. They are not going to allow you to weaken their votes to stop their more fundamental goals. Look at the hysterical campaign they mounted to prevent verification of legal voting.
I think he should order 50,000 to the border. Even then they may not be able to hermetically seal the border. There will be gaps which the illegals will sneak through.
The military should already be on the southern border armed to the teeth.
If that had been done with Trump's existing authority there would be no caravan at all.
The states have no jurisdiction over border security so CA can go on wasting their time in court.
But Trump has not done that.
I think he has no intention of doing it either.
Trump's lots of talk and very little action.
If the military intercepts the refugees on mexican soil with some sort of agreement with the mexican government (hopefully), that might work. BUT, the mexican government is feeding and providing transportation to these immigrants to get to the USA, so its unlikely they would allow US troops to enter mexico at all.
Funneling them into California would work if they stayed there, and there was no call for federal money to take care of them. Leave it to California to do the heavy lifting. Not sure the immigrants can be kept in California however. They wold probably spread out across the country to escape detection.
All this has happened in the EU before, so leftists know they will win.
By the way, supposedly 3 more caravans are being prepared to follow this one. Something needs to be done or this will be a real problem with babies showing up at the border, pregnant wormen coming here to drop their babies and getting citizenship.
I like Trumps idea of catch and hold instead of catch and release. Put them in tent cities and make them work to maintain the cities and pay for food. See how many want to come here then.
Someone should leak that the border has been laced with mine fields that will take 20 years to clean up and cost $100 billion because the locations were lost when the FBI wiped Hitlery's computers.
Plus, what happens if our military gets attacked outside of the border IN another country and has to fight back. The libs would love that. Australia could intercept offshore, not in another country.
Anything Trump does there will be immediately sent to a friendly court to be stopped of course.
Hopefully the migrants wont get there before the mid term election. Seeing the caravans is good for repubs, but actually dealing with the refugees will be good for the liberals.
Something has to work, as I hears that 3 more caravans are starting up to follow this one. Predictable. I also think that the refugees will spread out across the border to make interception more difficult.
Hard problem, as the liberals figured.
He has done more in less than two years to IMPROVE this country than any president in my life all while being under constant attack. It is shameful that he is being blamed for this.
It is good thinking but even that number may not be enough. There will be a continent sneaking through, no matter what the gov does. The only way to avoid the influx would be a human chain of military, covering every inch of the border.
BTW, Mexicans are apparently supplying this mass with food and water. They'll do everything except taking them in. I also read Mexico offered them housing and jobs but they flatly refused. The organizers sold them the idea of going to the US.