davy39:
Who says that we’re going to adopt Mexico and Canada? Maybe they’re going to adopt us. And why do you think illegal aliens should be able to vote in any election? They break our laws and then are rewarded with the right to vote? That sounds pretty stupid to me. This is not the EU, by any stretch of the immagination. I believe you are way out in liberal land.
No Davy that is not what I am saying. I’ll flesh it out a little bit better so you can more easily follow my line of thinking. If you look into it you might find a few things you can actually agree with. I am not the least bit interested in a communal relationship with any country. What I am calling for is, for lack of a better term, an American Empire that controls the entire western hemisphere.
Step 1: We negotiate a free trade treaty with every western hemisphere nation. No import or export duties at all. Free movement of labor and capital. That will give us full access to Mexican, Canadian and Venezualen oil and access to all of the important industrial metals in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. We won’t need the Arabs or the Nigerians anymore.
Step 2: We raise not lower the requirements for American citizenship. I suggest 15 years residence and honorable service in the American military. Also change the law that allows anyone born here to get citizenship automatically. The children of aliens will not be born American citizens.
Step 3: We change the Social Security law in such a way as to insure that aliens pay into the system but cannot collect benefits. That will prop up the system for current and future retirees. For the aliens? Just a cost of doing business in the US.
Step 4: We open the border to anyone born in the western hemisphere. An Argentine is welcome. A Syrian or German gets the bum’s rush out, no exceptions. At the same time we will insist that Americans can come and go as they please everywhere else in the hemisphere. This helps everyone. American industry gets an influx of new labor. The other countries will get economic development from Americans going south to open factories, mines and export busineses that will employ local labor but be American owned and managed. Just imagine the surplus food production, when Americans buy and farm land in Argentina and Brazil using advanced American agricultural techniques. We could literally feed the whole world.
Step 5: Political reform. We reserve the election of President, Senators and Congressmen to American Citizens alone. We allow any resident of legal age to vote in local elections. We want to excude immigrants from influencing our national elections, but what is the harm if they get a vote for their local school board? After all, they will be taxpayers too. This little concession will allow immigrants to develop a sense of loyalty to thier communities and will give them a little taste of democracy that they can bring back to their homeland and cause their own governments to reform. They will be more willing to join our armed forces in a crisis.
Step 6: Grant tax immunity to American teachers and private schools in Latin America. This will allow Americans to go to Latin America and teach the English language and important industrial skills to prospective immigrants. The schools will be more profitable, the teachers will have a decent standard of living and more immigrants will arrive in America conversant in English and with important job skills.
Quite a scheme huh? If we want to keep our place at the top of the world food chain, this is the best strategy. Oh we might have to make a few adjustments on the way – no food stamps for aliens, English only education and so forth, but this can work and our place in the world will be secure for many generations.
