How’s This For An Immigration Policy?

Monday, February 4th, 2008

We stop guarding the US/Mexican border immediately.  Any Mexican who wants to come to America may do so, no questions asked.  If the number of Mexicans living in the US exceeds the number living in Mexico, then we get Mexico.

 Effectively, the Mexican people will have voted with their feet, deciding they want to be Americans, not Mexicans.  As we are a country that believes in majority rule, if most of them want it, we give it to all of them.  Boom, instant citizenship for everybody, and land annexation for us.  At which point they start earning minimum wage and paying tazes.  And we get their cacti, tequila factories, and offshore oil fields.

 I’m actually more curious about what would happen (the chaos that would ensue) if we tried to implement this than I am interested in solving the issue.

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Primaries

Monday, February 4th, 2008

If the purpose of having the primaries scattered out over the first quarter of the year or so is to give the candidates the opportunity to focus on each state individually, then why are 22 of them held on the same day?

 If the mechanics of holding primaries are such that 22 of them can be held on the same day, then why spread the rest out over a quarter of the year?

 Obviously, seeing how the earlier states vote affects the later states.  For instance, I can’t vote for Fred because he dropped out on me.  What if the states held their votes, but didn’t reveal the results until everyone else had the chance to vote too?  Put the results in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s porch, someplace secure, and make it a federal crime to leak anything prematurely.

 The secret ballot concept maybe ought to be applied on a state level.

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