RANDY RANTS---- A BRIEF ESSAY ABOUT IMMIGRATION

Hordes of people are massed at the Guatamalan border with Mexico.  They want to come to the U.S. and find a better life.
If we were to welcome them in, then very shortly another horde would assemble--also wanting to come here for a better life--and so on until we diluted ourselves to third world status.
NO DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST IN AMERICA SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND THIS FACT.
Democrats, in general are soft and sentimental about this issue and cannot seem to form a coherent and sensible policy to deal with this and similar situations.  I'm here to help.

Democrats are my people--I am a proud Liberal---believing  we hold a vision for a better world.
BUT REGARDING THE ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION, THEY ARE DANGEROUSLY IGNORANT
AND COULD COST US VALUABLE SEATS IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION.

Democrats really would open our borders to unlimited immigration--in a variety of soft hearted policies such as "catch and release".(a misguided Obama policy)

They do this because they take seriously the words on the statue of liberty---"give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.  And because they also take seriously our legal policy on sanctuary;  that anyone who shows up and says that they fear for their life at home---that we  are obliged to harbor them--even let them become citizens.

Democrats---my people--will not cleanly admit that billions of people are in danger in their home country and if they could, would show up at our border asking for sanctuary, work, and eventually citizenship.We would be overrun--invaded--overwhelmed---with disasterous consequences.

Republicans understand this better than Democrats and unless we wake up to the threat of immigrant overwhelm, we may lose the great opportunity we have in the upcoming election.

WE NEED A CLEAR IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT WILL TAKE AWAY THE PUBLIC'S FEAR OF BEING INNUNDATED WITH ASYLUM SEEKERS AND BETTER-LIFE SEEKERS.

                                             HERE'S WHAT I SUGGEST:

BOLDLY, VIGOROUSLY, LOUDLY, PERSISTENTLY DECLARE THAT WE DEMOCRATS RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF BEING OVERRUN----AND WILL DEFINITELY, VIGOROUSLY, FORCEFULLY DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST IT.

DECLARE BOLDLY, VIGOROUSLY AND FORCEFULLY THAT WE WILL FIND A NEW, CREATIVE WAY TO GIVE ASYLUM WITHOUT ALLOWING OURSELVES TO BE OVERRUN BY MILLIONS ARRIVING HERE WITH A STORY OF PERSECUTION.

We could, for example, arrange for a guarded, monitored camps IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY WHERE THEY WOULD BE WELCOMED, DEFENDED, FED AND HOUSED.  The camp would offer security and survival but not a rich life.  Living there would be just boring enough to stimulate their desire to return home as soon as possible..( Such a camp would screen out the "want a better life immigrants") (If you think The U.S. couldn't arrange for such a camp, then you don't  understand the leverage our aid money gives.)(and camps such as described already exist in Jordan--one million Syrians refugees and Bangladesh--500,000 displaced Rohingas)

Republicans by and large are an ignorant and greedy mass that do not grasp the "oneness" of the nation but they do grasp better than the Democrats the threat of immigrant overdilution.

The American Indians did not see the immigrant threat soon enough to protect themselves.  Nor did Mexico in the 1840's, see the immigrant threat to Texas soon enough--and so they lost it.
"Those who don't understand history are destined to repeat it." Santayana