I have a question. We have access in the U.S. to incredible technology, don’t we? And we also have a fairly large number of people who are under-employed or unemployed.
So: Why don’t we develop three categories: Legal immigration.
Illegal immigration: Sanctuary proven/sanctuary not proven.
So say someone comes in with family, “We’re fleeing from Colombia, drug violence has already killed members of my family”. We ask, "Do you have family or prospects of safety in Colombia? Elsewhere in South America, or any other country but the U.S.? "
They say, "No, and we need to come in now instead of going through regular channels.’
We send down (or call somebody already in the field) to Columbia area, ascertain story’s credibility. It adds up; then people are put into the ‘legal asylum’ track on a par with other legal seekers.
And because we know there is going to be a ‘boom’, we use a lot of our own citizens who are unemployed to help build houses, staff services, etc. in each state.
Now suppose the people seeking asylum say that “they want a better life” but they were doing ‘just as well’ as everybody else in the area and there are no areas of violence.
They go to another area, a 'holding area", after their story is found that they ‘desire’ to immigrate, but are not in danger and could pursue legal channels. That ‘holding area’ has services like the other, too, and people to help take care of the seekers. The people are not treated differently, the children are not separated from the parents, they simply will wait at the ‘holding area’ while their stories are checked, AND for another period of time while the U.S. representatives for ‘immigration affairs, holding’ talk to the representatives of the country being fled, to determine how the country can ‘hold onto’ its citizens. Mutual ‘training’ between our country and theirs to help. For example, suppose the area being fled from was typically a farming area but the soil has been depleted and people have a hard time making a living. U.S. send soil experts to assess what the depleted soil needs; that country sends their own people to the U.S. to get training on how to produce the necessary components, apply, make short and long range plans, etc. Meanwhile the people come back to the former country and are supported for a period up to 3 years while the land is brought back and the first year of crops come through. In the end, people don’t have to leave their homes, they support themselves, help raise their country’s revenues, everybody wins.
