Big issues need big ideas and big solutions. They need forward thinkers willing to get hard work done. I'm not saying I'm that person, but I'm not saying I'm not either. I fancy myself a bit of a stateman. I'm going to just say what everyone else is thinking...
I think we can create a near contiguous immigration pathway between Mexico and Montana's hat by trading Nevada to Mexico for Baja (Cal and Sur), and then give Idaho to Canada (no compensation necessary, in fact we may need to sweeten the deal by throwing in a universal car insurance rider for all preexisting Canadian drivers that will now be at an elevated risk on their commutes to and from hockey practice). We'd have to install a highspeed tramway or something between Yuma and the Nevada border, but other than that trivial detail, who says no to that deal?
Since we've established all immigrants are after free handouts, offering a direct path to a country with more substantial government funded social welfare programs would instantly reduce illegal immigration to something approaching the limit zero, were this calculus.
This also removes the financial burden of the US having to prop up the geographic and cultural wastelands of those outpost "states", and removes the border crossing nightmare that often plagues travel between the US and Baja. Much like RS2477 claims, we retain "right of way" on our preexisting network of highways and freeways to insure no interruption of goods traveling through our freight corridors.
If we can pull this off, I'd happily volunteer to be one of the first groups of pioneers to first colonize the newly free land of Baja.
I think we can create a near contiguous immigration pathway between Mexico and Montana's hat by trading Nevada to Mexico for Baja (Cal and Sur), and then give Idaho to Canada (no compensation necessary, in fact we may need to sweeten the deal by throwing in a universal car insurance rider for all preexisting Canadian drivers that will now be at an elevated risk on their commutes to and from hockey practice). We'd have to install a highspeed tramway or something between Yuma and the Nevada border, but other than that trivial detail, who says no to that deal?
Since we've established all immigrants are after free handouts, offering a direct path to a country with more substantial government funded social welfare programs would instantly reduce illegal immigration to something approaching the limit zero, were this calculus.
This also removes the financial burden of the US having to prop up the geographic and cultural wastelands of those outpost "states", and removes the border crossing nightmare that often plagues travel between the US and Baja. Much like RS2477 claims, we retain "right of way" on our preexisting network of highways and freeways to insure no interruption of goods traveling through our freight corridors.
If we can pull this off, I'd happily volunteer to be one of the first groups of pioneers to first colonize the newly free land of Baja.
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