Green Card, Yellow Card, Red Card, & Migrant Labor

 

Among the many issues raised, real or imagined,  regarding immigration, the basics are about legal v. illegal migration, the need for labor, and the processes.

As it stands, through the magic of metaphor, ICE raids a business--a restaurant, goes into the kitchen, and finds 10 migrants working.  The operative word is "working".

As it is now, those who are here illegally are arrested and slated for deportation.  This of course hurts both the responsible as well as hurting the business(es) that rely on migrant workers.

Enter, a new paradigm:

The Green Card (in force and understood)

The Yellow Card, this for minor infractions but does not rise to the level of removal.

The Red Card, for major infractions resulting in removal.

Hence, ICE raids the restaurants, checks credentials, finds 4 workers who are here illegally but are actually working and contributing to the economy, and issue Yellow cards.  They find 4 workers who are here both illegally and engaged or engaging in criminal misconduct.  They issue Red Cards and they are arrested and processed for removal.

This helps migrants who are responsible.

This helps business (including farms and farmworkers)

This helps the larger community by protecting the community from unbridled criminal misconduct.

Just a thought.

Best wishes,

Slim.

Box 33

Pen Argyl, PA 18072

Etats-Unis

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Pretty Words: Appealing to the Downtrodden

 

Vladimir Lenin became leader off Russia by appealing to the downtrodden people of Russia.  How did it work out for the downtrodden people of Russia?  Not good.

Schicklgruber became leader of Germany by appealing to the downtrodden people of Germany.  How did that work out for the downtrodden people of Germany?  Not good.

Robespierre became leader of France by appealing to the downtrodden people of France.  How did that work out for the downtrodden people of France?  Not good:

The  Committee for Public Safety

The Reign of Terror

The Guillotine

And Robespierre, to mix a metaphor, was hoisted with his own petard.  He ended up on the Guillotine.

In the novel, Danton's Death, Danton, a member of the Committee for Public Safety, was discussing the "lessons of the revolution".  "The Lessons of the Revolution are these:  They are suspect, we are suspect, all are suspect.

At his inauguration, President Kennedy said,  "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

Pretty words.  But in 1962 the Berlin Wall went up and JFK flew to Berlin to announce to the world, "Ich bin ein Berliner."  Pretty words. But the Berlin Wall stood for 27 years, more or less, until the high, great, and wonderful President Ronald Reagan went to Berlin and Single Handedly tore down the Berlin Wall.  Remember?  "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall".  Not, "let's tear down this wall", not "let's talk about this wall", not "let's discuss our differences".  Subsequently, the wall came down and Ronald Reagan succeeded in liberating one billion people ground beneath the bootheel of Soviet Military Occupation.

"Pretty words do not pay the bills.  Starving Children cannot eat symbolic gestures."  ~ Slim Fairview.

Best wishes,

Slim

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