Had at least two new thoughts concerning immigration today. One came while reading "Cartels and Combinations" (a novel). Two drug gangsters are talking, and one says the reason the U.S. has reduced the number of agents at the border is to allow more people to enter, so the politicians can reap their votes.
"Strange people, those Americanos." replies the other gangster. "Don't they realize that our people who cross over without papers are helping us distribute our products up there?"
Yes, it is true: Many (though not all) of those who migrate across the border are pressed into service by the cartels. I got wondering how many. It occurred to me there is some information -- maybe even a wealth of information -- about the cartels we could tap into if we could get the immigrants to sing. I am supposing they are usually out the influence of the cartels once they are here, no longer being monitored by them.
But, they do not go directly to the police simply because that would be turning themselves in. Now, inasmuch as informants to crimes are often not prosecuted, in exchange for their testimonies, how is it we don't utilize our immigrants the same way?
I got a name for this idea, "Project Sing." A program such as this will help in the war against crime and it will make it so a host of immigrants can live here legally. We've got work visas and espousal visas and I don't know all what other kinds of visas. Now, we can have the "Sing Visa."
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