A Better Border Solution

No wall, but immigrants would (eventually) pay for it.

A saw demonstrates the weakness of the current wall prototype

What if I said there was a solution to America’s illegal (and even legal) immigration problems that would have all the elements both parties seek. You might think I would be crazy, but maybe we all need to look further than the options put on the table thus far.

Gun enthusiasts always like to point out criminals don’t like to follow the law and thus making more laws are not productive. What people miss in both the gun and immigration debates is, while all out prohibition does not work, well-regulated pathways to legality do. With both these issues the solution needs to just be more vetting. Making sure people buying guns are responsible enough to use and store them safely. Making sure the people being let into the country are not, as Trump put it, “criminals and rapists”. This article will primarily focus on the latter as I have written extensively on the gun issue already.

So with the vetting issue being said, how then can America really control who can come into the country?

You don’t. Or rather, you let them in partially.

What if the American government set up small border communities exclusively for people fleeing from other countries? Places where they could live, learn English, get jobs and work towards…