BUY MEXICO!!!

In the current atmosphere of heated debate over the serious problem of illegal immigration across the Mexican border, everyone has a view point.

Some people think that whoever came here illegally (which means by breaking the laws) must be thrown out without mercy, because they have no business of being here.

Some others think that our economy - especially the agriculture and hospitality sectors of our economy- needs the labor to offer reasonable products and services to the consumers.

Some others consider that it is a moral and humanitarian issue, because ours is a nation of immigrants and that we should not throw people out because they are honest and hard-working people who came here to avoid poverty and starvation and feed their families.

A large portion of Americans are ambivalent, because they really don't know the issue and are not concerned one way or the other.

Every year, around $40 Billion dollars are spent on this border security fiasco, where a few hundred armed members of the security forces hunt down Mexicans crossing the Southwestern deserts and play the cat-and-mouse game with "coyotes" who charge each illegal immigrant anywhere from $1500 to $4000 to take him across the border.

Tangled in this web are organized crime, drug smugglers, cops on the take and corrupt Mexican military and paramilitary units complicit in all of these and more.

California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas are bearing the huge cost of social programs, education, and massive burden on healthcare industry because of unpaid medical care. As these illegal immigrants spread across the country, these costs shift along with them to other cities and states. They cannot shift this burden to the Federal Government where it logically and legally belongs. This burden may amount to upwards of $100 Billion annually.

Federal Government, which is responsible for taking care of immigration, is either helpless, unconcerned, incompetent, or all of the above.

This issue has gotten out of hand over the past 6 years. States, cities, counties and even small towns and villages are hurting because of this unjust burden. Some are taking the draconian steps of making their own laws to exclude illegal immigrants. The situation is serious and getting to be ominous every passing day.

Now Congress has come up with another draconian bi-partisan plan to issue tamper-proof id cards to legal immigrants, offer a form of amnesty to around 11 MILLION illegal immigrants in some half-baked, untested and unproven way and essentially shoving this whole issue under the rug and throwing a lot of people's money at it.

It has been around ten years since the last "Amnesty" was granted to a large number of illegal immigrants. The issue has not been solved ever since, as was promised during that program. In fact, it has ballooned out of control with this large looming number of "APPROXIMATELY" 11 Million! Nobody knows for sure!

If you have a border for your nation, you better protect it! Otherwise, there is no sense in having it.

So, there you have it. A massive problem that is not going to go away, but going to get larger and larger until it becomes a catastrophe.

Is there a sensible solution to this mess?

Yes, indeed! There is one, if we are willing to think outside the box.

BUY MEXICO!

Yes, you read it right!

BUY MEXICO!

If a company wants to buy another company, they can either approach the management and make an offer to buy it, or they can go directly to the stockholders and make an offer. If enough stockholders accept the offer, you got a deal!

That is why I propose that we go directly to the stockholders and make an offer to each individual Mexican citizen to buy his share of the country. Currently, there are 107 Million Mexican citizens. If we offer a price of $5000 to each one of these citizens, it will cost about $535 Billion, or about the same amount of money that we wasted on the Iraq war.

If an 80% majority of Mexicans accept the offer, we bought ourselves a nice country with a lot of possibilities and solved all of our immigration problems in one stroke.

Consider the possibilities:

An almost virgin territory for our businesses to expand;

Zillions of beach front properties to satisfy the insatiated demand for warm-weather vacation and retirement homes for the bulging number of baby-boomers ready to retire;

A large pool of WILLING AND LEGAL LABOR to meet the needs of our economy.

Millions of Mexican entrepreneurs using their new-found wealth to start their businesses and putting their land to better and more productive use;

Larger market for American goods and services;

Unlimited possibilities to explore for oil in the Gulf of Mexico (which can ten be called Gulf of Florida, Texas, or Mississippi);

Excellent prospects for developing solar farms and wind farms for renewable, inexhaustible energy;

AND NO MORE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS!!!!!

You can use your imagination and add quite a few more, if you choose!

Now, what could be wrong with such a sensible approach?

We have done similar deals before, such as the Louisiana Purchase.

This deal will start paying back huge dividends from day one.

In my view, the biggest payback would be assimilation of a large group of hard-working, God-loving, kind and gentle people who do not have to commit the crime of crossing a border at the dead of night in 120 degree heat, starving and dying of thirst just to make a living, and then living in the shadows, constantly living with the fear of brutal and inhuman treatment.

They are human beings, just like you and me, and deserve to live and work with dignity as human beings.

Think about it, and think long and hard.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, after all!

Peace and Blessings!