Debugging the Plan

As I said, the asylum system is not working.  A hundred thousand people a month are flooding across the border, surrendering to the authorities, being detained for awhile, given an appointment for a hearing, and then being released.  Most of them will not show up for their hearing, so they join the ranks of the illegals that are already here.  I don't blame the immigrants because they have discovered that this is the easiest way to get into the country.  Even before this started, I have long maintained that it's easier to get into this country illegally than legally.  Most people didn't seem to care about this before 9-11, they thought the law was a big joke, which is exactly why I was one of the few who said that there ought to be a better way.  My proposal is an attempt to find that better way.  Like any new idea, this one has some bugs in it, let's see if we can work some of them out.

I have already decided that "sorting pens" is not an appropriate name for these things.  How about "immigrant reception centers", "IRCs" for short?  I don't want anything with the word "lounge" in it because the whole intent is to move people in and out in a timely fashion.  Ellis Island worked pretty well because it was an island, they could control the inflow and the outflow, which you can't do with a 1600 mile long land border.  Think of these IRCs as a bunch of mini Ellis Islands strung all along the border.  I think a bunch of small IRCs would be better than one big one because they would spread the crowd out, but I'm open to suggestions about this.

We need a fence to channel the immigrants into the IRCs, otherwise they would just wander across the border like they always did, making it impossible to screen them.  The intent is to let the good guys in and keep the bad guys out.  I agree that it might be a problem establishing a reliable data base of known bad guys.  Does anybody know how they do it at the airports, assuming they are actually doing it by now instead of just talking about it?

I don't know if my plan would result in more immigrants coming in or less, but it should result in a better quality of immigrants.  These people are fleeing their homelands to escape poverty and violence, but they are bringing the poverty and violence right along with them, not on purpose, but because it is the nature of predators to follow their prey.  Only by sorting them out and turning the predators back can we insure that the good immigrants will have a better life here than they did at home.

This turnip thing is probably a glitch in the machine, it's nobody's fault, but it has got to be costing the Jewell money.  The only way they can recover their losses is by raising the prices on their products, which hurts everybody.  I'm surprised that somebody hasn't reported it by now, but somebody certainly should.  By "somebody" I mean you, Uncle Ken.  If you don't do it, who will?  If you consider the Jewell corporation to be an enemy of the people, then why don't you shop at a different store?  Unless you believe that all the store owners are in it together, but that would be just paranoid.