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Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages
PolygamousRanchKid submits the news that New Jersey governor (and Republican presidential candidate) Chris Christie said yesterday that he would, if elected president, create a system to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages. The NYT writes:
Mr. Christie, who is far back in the pack of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, said at a campaign event in New Hampshire that he would ask the chief executive of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, to devise the tracking system."At any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. It's on the truck. It's at the station. It's on the airplane," Mr. Christie told the crowd in Laconia, N.H. "Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them." He added: "We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in."
Adds the submitter: "I'm sure foreign tourist will be amused when getting a bar code sticker slapped on their arm."
Anyone who still visits the US after the iris/fingerprinting/laptop-snooping/body-scanning/anal-reaming bullshit is already an embarrassment to humanity.
At least a barcode slapped visibly to one's forehead would be an honest expression of what's going on, and frankly I'd rather that than all of the above.
I dunno, I've been watching the rise of the SJW phenomenon online over the last few years, mostly with distaste - in particular for unabashed hate movements like feminism - but when it comes to racism I've slowly been forced to conclude that quite a lot of Americans really are racists to a surprising degree. Now that doesn't mean unchecked immigration is a good thing, but what Trump and company are smoking out of the bushes are a huge population of genuine xenophobes.
The other thing I've noticed is the degree to which SJWs actually cause the reactions they want to claim are reactionary. If they weren't out there shrieking about white privilege and telling white people to kill themselves, it seems likely that Trump and Christie wouldn't be getting the support they're getting. The SJW approach is less to support the downtrodden than to attack whoever they feel is oppressing others, which in turn causes the "oppressors" - who for the most part aren't anything of the sort - to become radicalised and polarised. SJWs creat the monster they claim exists, and it didn't have to be that way at all.
I think Morgan Freeman has the best approach to dealing with racism, and that is to just stop talking about it.
From what I can see, it looks to me like Trump jumped in to do Hillary a favor by helping to deflect attention from Hillary's numerous felonies, and got way more attention than even he expected to get.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
There's a minor problem with this plan. The ones who come here illegally? They don't have visas. That's what makes their coming here illegal. If they have a visa, then they came here legally.
You're completely missing the point. He's addressing the large number of people who legally enter (with a visa), but illegally overstay their visas, this becoming illegal immigrants. The people who illegally enter are a related, but different specific problem.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The savings in entitlement expenses would more than compensate
[citation needed]
In fact I'll save you the trouble, people have studied this and found the exact opposite. Illegal immigrants can access few entitlements yet pay many taxes, so they are usually net contributors.
That is, if you care about the facts.
What I would like to see is neither option.
I want Visas available for all the jobs we need doing. Right now we can't get american's to pick food and until we have robots doing it we need people to do it. We should have a visa just for this purpose and have people get it legally. They should come here legally, work here legally and NOT be exploited by farmers, factories etc.
On the other end we need to make it vastly simpler to bring in very highly skilled people from other countries. I am not talking about the H1-B crap that is abused and just for getting cheap programmers pretty much. I am talking about people with masters or PhDs from highly respected universities in biotech, nanotech, material science etc. People that we honestly don't have enough of and bringing the best over won't actually have any impact on americans being employed.
There are some fields where that are only a few thousand qualified people on earth to do certain high tech jobs and we could employ ALL of them with barely a dent in the demand.
Computer modeling for biotech drug manufacturing is HARD!
Explain how locating and transporting 11 million people, who by their very nature are not on record, is going to be "easy" and "cheap". While you're at it, explain how you will do this without accidentally capturing and transporting US citizens.
So you want the US to go full imperialist? It's an idea; solve the Mexican illegal immigrant problem by annexing Mexico. Send in a team of special prosecutors (perhaps ex-US Attorneys headed by Christie) to bring the corruption down to New Jersey levels, then admit the Mexican States to the US.