"A Second Almost Perfect Plan" Dept

Which has certain affinities, I think it is fair to say, with the one I posted a couple of posts ago.

I wonder how many other people have gotten this in their e-mail inboxes already...

THE PLAN:

Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual government forms, bulletins, etc.

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window, or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican taxpayer-funded public school system, and while you're at it demand that the Mexican school system spend whatever money is necessary to offer classes on all subjects in English.

Demand a Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal presence in Mexico.

Drive around with no liability insurance.

Insist that Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck!

Seriously, my own not particularly detailed or well-thought-out take corresponds with the perfect phrasing of someone whose name I don't remember and therefore can't credit properly: "High wall, wide gate." I want it to be way easier for good people to enter this country legally than it is today. I want it to be all but infinitely harder for people to enter this country illegally, than it is today. (Which shouldn't be hard -- when you have a competence level that is the equivalent of zero degrees Kelvin, even an increase to "pathetically, risibly far from adequate" represents an infinite degree of improvement in percentage terms.) And if there are fifty people living here now illegally and fifty people who have been patiently waiting while they go through the incredibly onerous legal immigration process out of respect for our laws, then I want the fifty people who are living here illegally to be kicked to the back of the line. And, perhaps most of all, I want the incompetent bureaucrats and politicians who are responsible for the disgraceful state our immigration service has been in for the last couple of decades -- I want them all exiled permanently to Mexico.

Those are general principles. I am certainly willing to admit that pragmatic compromises may have to be made; but I want the principles to be respected.