I
believe that President Trump should not declare a national emergency
over the lack of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
America
has been in multiple continuous and simultaneous states of national
emergency for decades, and does not need any more of them.
Furthermore
there is no military or military-level threat coming over the
U.S.-Mexico border, which is not backed by the United States. The
idea that there is a military-level threat, is based on the idea that
many immigrants being military-age males, itself makes them a
threat.
A
few people throwing rocks, who theoretically could serve in an army,
does not mean they intend to subvert the laws of the United States
(outside of the petty infraction of entering the United States
without permission, which is not even a felony until the third time
you do it).
The
drug cartels are the only military threat, and if America wants to
stop the violence associated with the inevitable drug trade, it
should stop people on Wall Street from colluding with the C.I.A. to
import illicit drugs from overseas.
Additionally,
the A.T.F.E. should confiscate only those drugs that kill people on
contact such as fentanyl, allow other drugs to be traded freely and
without requiring legality, permission, or taxation.
The
"cartel" is both a cadre of violent drug dealers, as well
as an economic cartel. The illegality of mild drugs creates
the cartel, because criminalizing the drug restricts its supply, and
thus raises demand (all other things remaining equal), and raising
the price of the drug. The desperation that results from high prices
is what causes the violence.
That's
why ending the illegality of drugs will end the cartels, and cause
drug dealers to compete with each other fairly, without violence or
unethical behavior, since customers would not tolerate such behavior,
without a violent government dispensing goodies to coax them into it.
The
United States is creating the only military-level threat to itself,
in the form of drug cartels that turn against us. America asked for,
and provoked, its own problems, in this regard.
I
would like to see blanket amnesty for all immigrants not yet proven
to have committed physical harm against others. We should deport only
violent criminals, and require authorities to obtain a warrant before
even taking a person's name.
People
shouldn't have to be tagged, and assumed contagious, and deloused,
like an animal, before being allowed to enter this country. Nor
should they be forced onto welfare by nationalists who want to mock
them for taking welfare (while working undocumented immigrants who
obtain fraudulent Social Security cards are actually paying into
Social Security money which, if they don't become citizens, they will
never receive).
Undocumented
immigrants are subsidizing US. It makes no difference if there are
costs associated with caring for them; if we have social programs for
citizens only, then we have National Socialism (which was, of
course, not real socialism, and nor is the neo-liberal capitalist
system we have in America when Democrats are in control).
Why,
instead, don't we try the model practiced in Norway, in which
foreigners ARE eligible for some forms of government assistance?
Norway does that, and their economy doesn't fail. If it works there,
it could work here.
Why,
moreover, don't we consider residents' dividends, instead of
just citizens' dividends, so that we can make sure
foreign-born people are never excluded from being eligible for
any forms of government assistance, so that they never end up
second-class citizens?
We
would not want to expose foreign-born people to unreasonable risk of
being deprived of citizenship on account of not having enough
property. Especially not if the government were to restrict them from
owning certain types of property, and/or were to require them to
register their property, so that it can take it away before they
leave the country.
Don't
want illegal immigrants in your country? Legalize them. And quit
tagging citizens and immigrants alike, like animals; with your
proposed national I.D. with R.F.I.D. chips in them; enslavement to
the Social Security System, and constant and needless monitoring,
regulation, and taxation of non-violent activities (often outsourced
to for-profit companies, in particular, monitoring of Amazon
customers by that company, which has a C.I.A. contract).
