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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
It's my fantasy immigration program, it can be paid for just fine by my fantasy government restructuring.  None of it will ever happen... |
I think you're actually making a good poit in a round about way. Immigration reform is a fantasy problem. The solutions being tossed around are all fantastic in nature... like building a Great Wall of Mexico. What a waste of money, for what's not really a pressing problem. Could our immigration policy use a facelift? Sure... but I think we've got much bigger fish to fry 1st:
- we need to stop war mongering/nation building
- we need to drop the war on drugs
- we need to focus our military on more important issues like domestic security and advanced technology so we can maintain superior might with less soldiers
- we need *drastic* reform to our election process
- we need *drastic* reform to our law making process to remove lobbiests from the process
- we need to return the individual freedoms to citizens that have been stolen by corporations and goverment (i.e. DMCA, Patriot Act, etc)
- we need to rebuild medicare/medicade/prescription drugs/social security
- we need to streamline the process for all government funding/budgeting so we stop throwing away billions of dollars
- we need to return to a balanced budget and pay off the trillions of dollars we owe ourselves
- we need to convert our energy use to oil alternatives
- and most of all we need to figure out some way to get a decent education to every child, and every adult that wants one, because if we return to having the brighest and most motivated citizens we'll have the resources to solve all of our problems w/o the knee-jerk and fear mongering that we use to "solve" our problems these days.
Then we can start worrying about all the illegal immigrants, because if we can actually solve all those other problems, we really will have too many people trying to come here.
Also notice that "fight terrorism" isn't on my list. IMO, to win that "war" all we have to do is get our dick out of their mashed potatos and that problem will solve itself.