Monday, January 04, 2016

How Trump's Deportation Order Could Work

Everyone from the media to the Democratic Party Candidates to Mr. Trump's own Republican Party competitors for the nomination have panned his notion of shipping  out up to 12 million unlawfully present persons making their residence in the borders of the United States for various reasons. Some have called it impractical and others have gone as far as to call it racist. Regardless of how you feel about Mr. Trump and his idea, it is not the first time it has been done.

However, the scale of the undertaking does pose considerable logistical issues. It also will create economic disruption to families and communities not to mention the social implications of sending away family members for a possibly indefinite period of time.

Mexico is the single largest source of the immigrant population that resides here without legal status. Mexico is also the recipient of a significant amount of the earnings of many of the workers here who send money to their families from every paycheck.

When a country establishes an embassy or consulate on foreign soil that place becomes the sovereign territory of the government of the establishing country. Why would it not be possible for Mexico to establish temporary consulate offices within US borders where each one of the non compliant individuals could self deport and at the same time apply for and be issued a temporary US Visa providing them legal status and the ability to work while they apply  for permanent resident status.

This would solve Mr. Trump's logistical issue and take the burden of home wrecker and racist from all of the various titles he has so generously been bestowed. It would also be the.beginning of a solution to our immigration disaster.

All immigrants to the United States should have to pledge to assimilate. It is no longer enough to ask what we have been requirung. We cannot be a melting pot if everyone who comes to our shores or our border refuses our culture in favor of their own. We are a uniquely American culture. We come frome many lands and cultures and we have and do speak many laguages, but we are united as one people with one language and stand in the world as the Shining City on the Hill from which a Thousand Points of Light can be aspired to if you only have the desire to aspire.