No. of Recommendations: 2
A few thoughts in response:
Whatever bounty our forefather's and mother's enjoyed has been halved and halved many times over.
Only in terms of landmass. Resources available have exploded in a nation like the United States, and could do so in a nation like Russia and many of those in Africa. Technology has made those resources available, and some political systems and cultures have made development of those resources cheap and relatively straightforward, and have made development of new technologies itself a burgeoning industry. Other political systems, especially, but other cultures, also, don't do nearly as well.
If politicians and our citizens only think in terms of rules and regulations to control immigrants ... the discussion and solution must be much broader and found in other places than "control." and Our success as a nation is a natural magnet for those in need. So, what kind of measures do we takes to "protect" our borders against biology
Controls not against biology, but against culture. At bottom, no one and no group has an intrinsic right to enter another nation without that nation's prior permission, and no nation has an intrinsic obligation to grant permission. The nation-state with its borders is what allows the several peoples with their several cultures to do what they think is appropriate for them, at least nominally free from interference from other peoples--especially in Western Civilization, where individual liberty is a key aspect.
Were up to me, I'd build a "big, beautiful wall" along the length of our southern border and penetrate it with border/entry control stations every mile. Raise/eliminate our several immigration quotas and streamline our visa application processes, while still thoroughly vetting entrance applicants to screen out freeloaders and criminals, and be pretty draconian regarding illegal aliens--immediate deportation and no entry allowed for some significant period (10 years or more) of time. Key for me is requiring assimilation. If immigrants want to hold themselves apart from our culture and stay within their old country culture, they're not only doing our nation no good, they're not doing themselves any good, either, and they will have wasted their trip. If immigrants demand we adapt to them, rather than they adapt to us--worse, if they succeed--they'll destroy the very culture that made us the magnet we are, and that drew them.
Perhaps education, philosophy, cooperation and personal responsibility in ways our society as a whole have not entertained before need to be seriously considered.
The concept of personal responsibility--nee self-reliance--was at our core for a long time, since before our Revolutionary War. That needs to be recovered, and the concept that Government needs to be involved in everything needs to be put back in Pandora's box. Key to that, is indeed, education, and that needs to be heavily revamped to go back to teaching American culture and away from DEI in our social studies curricula.
concepts of respect and cooperation need to be a basis for solutions is eminently possible and best achieved within the nation-state framework. See, for instance Japan and the Republic of China, entirely bereft of natural resources, but prosperous nations through cooperation with other nation-states and trading with them. Compare that with Russia or the People's Republic of China which seek wealth (rather than prosperity) through seizing others' populations (in Russia's case) or others' natural resources (in the PRC's case), to the deprecation of themselves, their victims, and all the other nations of our world. See the United States, Europe, and the rest of North America, for all the ups and downs of those relationships--they're more up, for mutual prosperity, than down.
Birth control is not a taboo subject for any political party that I know of. That debate centers on the techniques of birth control and whether the embryo/fetus is a baby. It's also a subject with far wider implications than just immigration, so I won't pursue it further in this context.
Eric Hines
