Immigration: The problem to bring up when you have nothing else.

 

Working with salesmen all of my career, I was made aware that the sales process starts with creating a problem in the buyers mind that you can solve.  The immigration ‘crisis’ we are currently undergoing remind me of the ‘fire-sales’ our marketing geniuses used to have.  You let the buyers know that a feature is going to be taken away at a set date and then count the money as buyers rush in to get in on the deal while it lasts.  Announcements about building a wall let all potential immigrants know that they had better get here while they could and not wait.  Our politicians are using this issue to ramp up the hatred for the ‘other’ side without any intention of solving the problem.  This goes back to the Reagan immigration ‘solution’ that didn’t let undocumented people hold jobs or receive government benefits while in this country.  The GOP at that time made sure this would fail by not providing employers with the tools necessary to verify citizenship or legal status in the country.   I think we all know that the solution is hiring a ton of immigration judges to clear up and streamline the process of asylum.  Instead we turn these people, who have walked hundreds of miles to get a better life, into ‘rapists, drug dealers, and criminals'. While we talk about all the job openings that are going unfilled.  All this hatred just leads to more hatred.