Thread: An Arkansas Reader Recommends the U.S. Adopt Japan’s Polic

From: Charles Rowe (e-mail him)

According to a recent New York Times story, the Japanese government will pay its foreign-born but legalized Latin American blue-collar workers thousands of dollars to return home if they promise never to come back.[Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home—Forever, by Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, April 22, 2009]

Japan’s problem is a slightly different than the one the U.S. faces since many of our workers are illegal aliens.

But if we offered a pre-established, flat, one time rate—say $25,000— for an illegal to announce his presence, agree to leave and not come back, would this be acceptable to the Open Borders lobbyists?

Illegal immigration creates a no-win situation—America gets an abundance of services we don’t particularly need like restaurant employees who then stay on and thus deprive lesser educated citizens a wider choice of jobs to choose from.

A supply and demand solution that rewards departure is essentially the same as the initial market decision to come here illegally to pursue a higher income.


http://vdare.com/letters/tl_042809.htm

That could be expensive. But it's an option.

I would be happy to chip in for a few tickets it would be a lot cheaper in the long run.

I would say that we need to acquire all the illegals assets here in America to fund their trip home.

That is a good idea jshhmr. Help pay their own way back.

It might work for Japan because they are separated from the source of their foreign labor by an ocean and thousands of miles. We share a long, contiguous, and poorly secured border with Mexico. A $25K reward would probably brings millions more here over and over in search of a quick buck. You can get a nice beach villa with that sort of American money down there.