Immigration has been the elephant in the room that no one has a real answer. A lot of people say they do but in reality nothing has worked. Why? If I knew all the answers I would be a very rich man but with every statement that is said more questions are being asked. What is the root of the problem? I have to say poverty. People from impoverish countries wanting to have a piece of the American Dream that we have sold to the world. Who can blame them? That is what my ancestors did was come here in search of the American Dream.  As I see it we can do 3 things. We can let them in which would send a portion of our country ballistic. We can help clean up their countries and build their economies. Or we can just say that it is not our problem and just ignore it.

I don’t know anyone that thinks we should just let them in. That would create even more problems than we have now. They come in with nothing and you would have to have services for them to survive until they can get on their feet. We would have to protect them from the more corrupt portions of our society that would treat them as slave labor or even sex trafficking. We would need to figure out how to stop the drugs that would be just following into the country worse than we already have. There are just too many problems with just an open boarder.

We could work with the impoverished nations to help improve their economies. We could work to help clean up the drug trade and the violence that plague many of the Central American countries. Who buys their drugs? Who supplies the guns? One of the problems is that there is a lot of people right here in the good old USA that is making a ton of money off this problem. If people had hope in their own countries maybe they would want to stay. Of course does that means that American jobs would be going there to improve the economy? I don’t think that would play well. We would have to help them develop their own resources and markets.

Of course,, then there would be the ignore the problem, which is kind of what the wall accomplishes. Build a big wall and isolate us from the problems of the rest of the world. That is the way I used to think. Isolation was the solution to me. Why get involved with the rest of the world problems. As I have gotten older I have begun to realize that it just isn’t that simple. The rest of the world’s problems eventually make it here. Ignoring the drugs from Central America just creates more violence here because, here is the market. Building a wall may look like you have solved the problem but it is really just a monument that can be scaled in minutes or go under in minutes so what has it really solved. It may play well in Iowa but it really solves nothing.

The border problems were not created by Biden and they were not solved by Trump. If you research it you will see that it has a long history here in the United States. Lauren Boebert visiting the border with a cutout of Vice President Harris may make for a great clip on Fox News but it accomplishes nothing. Ted Cruz broadcasting live at the border looking like some jungle fighter does not accomplish anything. Vice President Harris visiting the boarder does not accomplish a damn thing either. They all make great news clips but just divide us more and that is a problem. Vice President Harris going to Central America is actually a step in the right direction, much better than a photo op at the border.

To solve the problem of immigration it is going to take a village as some would say. The legislative and the executive branches of government have to work together. The political parties have got to work together instead of using it as cannon fodder to be shot at the other guy. We need to get the lobbyist like the Chamber of Commerce that wants that cheap labor coming into our country out of the picture. We need to work with other countries like Mexico and Central America so we can eliminate the reasons they want to leave in the first place. If it is a real problem than there needs to be real solutions that can only be accomplished if everyone is working toward the same goal, and politics are out of the picture. Violence, money and our thirst for cheap labor is what have gotten us into this problem. We need to stop demonizing the immigrants and start searching for solutions.

Now, Political Asylum and Immigration are two different things that the public love to just lump together. People that are seeking Political Asylum are people that come to our door asking for help.  Any good Christian would know that Joseph, Mary and a young boy name Jesus had to seek asylum in Egypt when Jesus’ life was threatened by King Herod. People that come to our door in need of protection should get our protection. I would hope that the church would be out in front of that. If the church is not, then true followers of Jesus should be asking why?