One way or the other, family separations will end but if the decision to criminalize illegal entries remain in force, it is still difficult to see how one form of separation or the other will not take place as children cannot possibly follow their parents into prison. It is therefore pertinent to delve into the wider picture of illegal migration in order to forestall future outrages. Children being corralled in metal cages do not make pleasant viewing but the pictures a bit away from the southwest borders of the US do not present endearing images too. Whole families in a march through Central America towards Texas and New Mexico as if the country is a no-man's land without laws and borders. As if you could just walk in and start a new life without regard to any form of due process. It looks like a modern form of the gold rush and we all know the consequences of those unregulated movements. Even allowing for the fact that very few countries will allow such unregulated influx, there is the distinct possibility of letting in terrorists and criminals. Central American gangs thrive in almost every American city, consequences of earlier unregulated migrations, causing untold mayhem and further drain on the already thin resources of law enforcement agencies. It is a picture that can get very ugly.
The equally ugly scenario is that Trump is not doing anything enduring to fight and fix the problem. His determination, or lack of it, to build a concrete wall that practically straddles the long Mexican border is the quixotic adventure of the modern age, utterly preposterous and laughable. Even if he eventually pulls it off, there is little guarantee it will put off determined immigrants and people-smuggling gangs. The infinitely shorter Berlin Wall with its infernal towers, barbed wires and guards ordered to shoot at sight could not prevent dissidents from escaping into the West. And neither is the present demarcation in Korea. The $25 billion needed to fund the wall can be put to more effective use. It is no wonder the plan has gained little traction. Trump's diversionary tactics have attracted similar opprobrium to themselves. What is his concern with immigration problems in Germany? Refugee issues are threatening the governing coalition of Angela Merkel for sure but it is difficult to see what he hopes to achieve by chipping in the falsehood that crime rates are up in Germany due to the influx of refugees. A little attempt at subverting the government of a supposed ally? Or a harebrained justification for tearing children forcibly from their parents and putting them in concentration camps? The US president doesn't appear to be a pleasant man.
Even more so considering his attempts at immigration legislation. If he wasn't using Dreamers at hostages in his desperation to secure funding for his wall, children as young as two are now his bargaining chips. His wall is his real focus in achieving legislation with Democrats and not curbing the flow of illegal immigrants. Which the wall isn't going to do in a million years.
Yet it is not legislation that the immigration problem needs. Horrendously tough sanctions have not stopped the flow of cocaine into the country. More success has been achieved with foreign governments in destroying coca plantations in Colombia and blocking drug smuggling routes. Pro-activeness is the key, attack the menace from the source. The Mediterranean migrant crisis shows no sign of abating simply because there is nobody to relate with in the lawless cluster of enclaves Libya has become. Mexico has a stable, functional government and migrant caravans could be stopped long before they reach the US border. It would be dead easy to do that, get violators arrested, as well as their people-smuggling gangs facilitators. Even a well-pronounced, tough posture that Mexico will not be the Libya of the Americas can send a very clear message to would-be illegal migrants.
Cut a deal with Mexico, Mr President.
The equally ugly scenario is that Trump is not doing anything enduring to fight and fix the problem. His determination, or lack of it, to build a concrete wall that practically straddles the long Mexican border is the quixotic adventure of the modern age, utterly preposterous and laughable. Even if he eventually pulls it off, there is little guarantee it will put off determined immigrants and people-smuggling gangs. The infinitely shorter Berlin Wall with its infernal towers, barbed wires and guards ordered to shoot at sight could not prevent dissidents from escaping into the West. And neither is the present demarcation in Korea. The $25 billion needed to fund the wall can be put to more effective use. It is no wonder the plan has gained little traction. Trump's diversionary tactics have attracted similar opprobrium to themselves. What is his concern with immigration problems in Germany? Refugee issues are threatening the governing coalition of Angela Merkel for sure but it is difficult to see what he hopes to achieve by chipping in the falsehood that crime rates are up in Germany due to the influx of refugees. A little attempt at subverting the government of a supposed ally? Or a harebrained justification for tearing children forcibly from their parents and putting them in concentration camps? The US president doesn't appear to be a pleasant man.
Even more so considering his attempts at immigration legislation. If he wasn't using Dreamers at hostages in his desperation to secure funding for his wall, children as young as two are now his bargaining chips. His wall is his real focus in achieving legislation with Democrats and not curbing the flow of illegal immigrants. Which the wall isn't going to do in a million years.
Yet it is not legislation that the immigration problem needs. Horrendously tough sanctions have not stopped the flow of cocaine into the country. More success has been achieved with foreign governments in destroying coca plantations in Colombia and blocking drug smuggling routes. Pro-activeness is the key, attack the menace from the source. The Mediterranean migrant crisis shows no sign of abating simply because there is nobody to relate with in the lawless cluster of enclaves Libya has become. Mexico has a stable, functional government and migrant caravans could be stopped long before they reach the US border. It would be dead easy to do that, get violators arrested, as well as their people-smuggling gangs facilitators. Even a well-pronounced, tough posture that Mexico will not be the Libya of the Americas can send a very clear message to would-be illegal migrants.
Cut a deal with Mexico, Mr President.
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