Immigration is one of the single most divisive subjects facing our people today, but it doesn’t have to be so. Its divisiveness stems from our peculiar need to sacrifice our individual thought at the altar of groupthink, parroting whichever extremist perspective fits the agenda of our chosen politics. Immigration concerns are not as tricky as other issues like capital punishment and abortion, which have little room for compromise. A person can’t be half dead or half pregnant, so when we choose to apply them it’s all or nothing. Extremists might be more outwardly passionate about immigration (they always are about everything), but this is just one more issue that cries out for centrist sanity and cooperation.
LOL red states wouldn’t have to play ball because other Americans would look to escape to them to avoid the crushing tax burden, crime, and failing schools that would follow such a plan. Oh wait, that is already happening.
This certainly seems like a much better approach than a national system. In fact it seems more in line with a democratic republic. I think the states should have more power not less. Thank you for your thoughts, it was an idea I haven’t heard before.
As an immigrant myself, I fail to see "the problem." It is the government's duty to protec/manage all cross-border movement of humans and goods. This does not call for closing border, nor for what is happening on the US southern border, which is plain lawlessness.
LOL red states wouldn’t have to play ball because other Americans would look to escape to them to avoid the crushing tax burden, crime, and failing schools that would follow such a plan. Oh wait, that is already happening.
This certainly seems like a much better approach than a national system. In fact it seems more in line with a democratic republic. I think the states should have more power not less. Thank you for your thoughts, it was an idea I haven’t heard before.
As an immigrant myself, I fail to see "the problem." It is the government's duty to protec/manage all cross-border movement of humans and goods. This does not call for closing border, nor for what is happening on the US southern border, which is plain lawlessness.