Why we want a fence

Hillary Clinton has advocated the United States deploying a "smart fence" on our southern border. George Waffle Bush is going to go on the air tonight and make an announcement. I am going to make the following prediction:

It is going to be an underwhelming speach which leaves American citizens scratching their heads, thinking to themselves "He wanted prime time to announce that?" He is going to announce that troops in the form of guardsmen are going to be deployed along the southern border.

Temporarily.

He is also going to push for some sort of "earned citizenship" program which amounts to amnesty.

In the end, he will basically have given the Left everything they want, and he will throw the conservatives a bone by deploying troops until the midterm elections are over.

This is why we want a fence, and not some sort of troop deployment. We want our southern border to be as far beyond politics as possible. It is too important for that. The simple fact of the matter is that once a wall is erected, it is there to stay. Troops can be recalled, Border patrol funding and staffing can be cut. All of these other assets can basically be pulled off the border by a simple funding cut or executive order. A wall can only be removed by actively destroying it, or basically leaving it unattended for decades.

There are those who say that a wall will not work, and that it will not stop the really bad people trying to come into the US. That is such a crock, that it boggles the mind. The chinese managed to raise a wall that kept out the nurderous mongolo hordes for hundreds of years. They didn't have any drones or surveillance cameras or nothing. A wall can and will work. All this pathetic shreiking about how there are too many illegals to do anything, or that "it's impossible" to build a wall really hacks me off. It is not impossible. Frankly, it would not even be that hard. Jim suggested to me that we should start deploying some DEA aerostats for monitoring the border. Reading up on them, I am inclined to agree.

As for tossing out the illegals already here, I am getting sick of the left inserting the nazi image of "going around in trucks loading people up." No. We would not do that. We would not have to. All that is necessary is for the US government to tell hospitals that patients will not be eligible for medicare or medicaid reimbursement unless thay prove they are in the US legally, and you couple that with absolving hospitals of liability for not treating those who cannot prove their legal status.. The sheer volume of illegals abusing the system would put the hospitals into the no-brainer position of either shutting their doors to illegals, or shutting their doors to everyone. Yeah, sure; some hospitals in California would try to make a political stand in front of CNN's willing cameras to pull at the heartstrings about how they are so noble for staying open, and "gee, what a bad law this is, turning all these illegals back onto the streets to suffer?"

Then, you stop printing official government forms in spanish. This would probably be enough money saved in printing costs to finance the whole wall all on it's own. Then, you don't pay for school funding without proof of being of a legal status. Once the gravy train of free education and healthcare is cut off, that will effectively deport people since they will be likely to either go back to Mexico, or start paying for their own services. Next, you basically tax all wire transfers of money back to Mexico at 50%.

What about earned citizenship? I have a solution.

If you go back to your country of origin and apply from there, then you suffer no time penalties. If you apply at a border crossing, then you are given a two year time penalty where your application package is in a holding pattern for two years before it is even started upon. If you apply for citizenship from within the US borders, that invokes a four year time penalty. The only amnesty you offer is a one-way ticket south. If they take it, then fine. If not, then if and when they are caught here illegally, you take a DNA sample, fingerprint, and then deport them, and deny them citizenship should they ever apply.

 This all boils down to simple economics. Right now, there is a very low cost to being here illegally, and a very high benefit. Think about it; you get free education and healthcare. You get paid a lot of money (since the employer doesn't have to shell out for your retirement or healthcare; the taxpayer will foot the bill). The government provides for everything, even translation services. Now, if we diminish the benefits (healthcare, education, and other government services) while at the same time raising the costs (longer wait times for citizenship, more probelms getting in, more taxes taken out of the pay that you do get), people will find it economical to follow the rules and not break the law. Maybe not all of them, but a lot of people will. In fact, those who would most likely stay would also be the most dedicated to being Americans.

So, the simple answer to all of this is to deny government services to illegals, and use that money to build a wall. It could be done in a year.

D-6 has been directly upset at people complaining about the possible use of military on the border. To paraphrase:

"In Russia, we had a much, much larger border, and it was patrolled by the military. As you know, there were not a lot of people who got across it. The military can and should be used for that purpose. If you are not going to use the military to defend the country, what the Hell are you going to use it for?"

Anyway, I expect to be underwhelmed by George Bush's address. The only way I would be happy is if he said that the troops are deploying tonight, and that they will stay in place until we have a wall there to take over. Somehow, I think that this is not going to happen.

Respectfully Submitted,
-doc Russia