About 20 years ago, I had started working at a new company. The management team had been lax for quite some time and seemed to be more interested in being friends with the employees than developing and shipping products.
So, people showed up for work when they wanted to, didn’t report sick days as required, productivity was extremely low, and deadlines were missed time and time again. The company simply couldn’t continue on its current path and have any reasonable expectation of survival.
After I had been there a couple of weeks, the CEO, who knew he was being taken advantage of, asked me how the problem could possibly be fixed. I told him the answer was easy. All we had to do was fire someone.
“Who”, he asked. I told him it didn’t really matter. As long as someone was fired for cause (which was easy to find), and it was explained to everyone why that person was fired, the problem would quickly disappear.
All he had to do was to show employees that actions had consequences and that he would really fire someone for not following the rules.
The CEO took my advice to heart and before the end of the week had fired someone everyone in the company had considered to be “untouchable”. People didn’t like that their friend got fired but they understood the reason and knew that management was serious about making the company successful. After that, things got quickly better.
Keep that little story in mind as we continue.
What if I told you I had a simple plan that could save thousands of lives each year. Would you be interested in learning more?
And what if I told you that in addition to saving lives, the same plan would immediately stop the torrent of illegal immigrants flooding into the country and save taxpayers countless billions of dollars annually. Would that sound like something worth listening to?
OK. I’ll tell you what it is. But you’re not going to like it. I can sum up my plan in two words: Predator Drone.
See, the problem is that there is no consequence to invading the United States. Yes, I said “invading” because that’s essentially what’s happening. We have tens of thousands of people, many of which are armed, sneaking across our southern border and into our country every month. That is an invasion. And, invading the United States should come with consequences.
So, here’s what we do. We fly Predator Drones over the southern border, let’s start in Arizona and Texas. The drone operators watch the border and look for someone breaching our defenses (walking into our country illegally). When that happens, the drone operator fires a Hellfire missile, and we blow the invaders to smithereens.
It doesn’t matter who we blow up. It only matters that we blow someone up, and that we film it. Then, we release the video of the United States firmly, and with prejudice, protecting its borders.
I guarantee you that within one day, the flow of immigrants across our border will stop. Because people will understand that invading the United States has serious consequences. They’ll not only know that we can protect our border, they’ll know that we will protect our border.
OK. OK. You probably think this is insane. But hear me out.
Each year, hundreds of people die trying to illegally enter the United States. As more people try to enter the U.S., this number is only going to rise. These people die horrible deaths from things such as heat stroke, dehydration and hyperthermia. These are just the people we know about. There are undoubtedly many more people whose bodies are still lying in the desert never to be found. If we stop the flow of illegal immigrants, we immediately save all of those lives.
Many of the people illegally entering the U.S. do so voluntarily. Many do not. It is estimated that around 20,000 women and children each year are sex trafficked from Mexico into the United States. If we stop the flow of illegal immigrants, we will stop nearly all of the modern slave trade crossing our border.
We’ve heard recently that many of the illegal aliens coming into our country are testing positive for COVID-19. If you believe the disease is a “crisis”, then you must also believe that these people will further the spread of the disease which will result in more COVID-related deaths.
Let’s not forget the number of people each year who die from using illegal drugs smuggled into the country from Mexico. Those that don’t die oftentimes have their families and lives destroyed because of their drug use. My plan will prevent a countless number of people from pain, suffering and death.
I’m not saying we shoot everyone we see. My plan doesn’t require that we kill many people at all. We’ll probably need less than a dozen Hellfire missiles. Two dozen tops. Each Hellfire costs about $70K so we won’t want to be wasteful. We only have to use enough missiles to teach people that if you poke the United States, the United States pokes back. With overwhelming force.
With my plan, we kill a few people to demonstrate the consequences of invading the United States. But, we will save thousands of lives outright each year and drastically improve the lives of tens of thousands more.
Or, we can do nothing. And thousands of people will die and tens of thousands of people will be sold into slavery. Every year.
As I said, it may sound crazy. But if you could sacrifice a few to save many or, save those few and sentence thousands of others to certain death, which would you choose?
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Solving Illegal Immigration – Part Two
