kenberg, on 2018-June-21, 07:36, said:
But to cut to the chase, do you think that the answer to what should we do is obvious? An extreme possibility: If someone arrives at our border and says that they wish to enter and live here, should that be enough? Or, even more extreme, if someone in Honduras says they would like to come to the US but they lack the means to get here, should we provide transportation? I am not trying to put words in your mouth or anything like that. I am trying to address the following: Assuming that most people reject both the idea of completely open borders and the idea of completely closed borders, how do we decide what we actually should do?
If you think that borders should be completely open then that is one answer. If you put this idea to a vote it will not be only the people in flyover country (I grew up in flyover country but never mind) who will reject it. There is no chance that this view will become the majority view. A person can of course still hold that view but it will never become policy. Call us names if you like, that's what passes for argument these days, but it will never become policy.
Actually, I think I do have an answer.
One of the complaints from the Dennison camp is that the influx of asylum seekers and immigrants is too poorly skilled to be of benefit to the U.S. At the same time, one has to wonder why the simple fact of geographic location of birth determines so much national favor or disapproval, regardless of education, skills, or intelligence - or as Richard so succinctly put it - why we should give a "shi*" about what some Americans think compared to non-Americans.
Here is what I propose: The U.S. establishes a baseline model of acceptable intelligence quotient and skill set - and we test everyone of working age and younger in the U.S., building up a swap list from those who fail to surpass that baseline, regardless of whether or not it breaks up families or marriages or nationalities or races.
In honor of Corey Lewandowski, we would name this the "Womp, Womp Wish List".
Then, for every immigrant or asylum seeker who surpasses the base model we let in, we deport a stupid, lazy, uneducated, poor, unskilled, worthless American, regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation who is not smart enough or productive enough or wealthy enough to use up valuable space in the "Motherland".
Then, of course, we register all the new "Americans" as Democrats..... which, by my calculations, would make the U.S. voting population 67% Democrat by 2020.