There needs to be a punishment for illegally entering the United States. As it is now, there is hardly any incentive for people to leave. They get caught? Long process to get deported (if they ever get deported) and then they just sneak back in again. It needs to stop.
I propose 1-year of hard labor for any illegal caught and found guilty, then deported.
The labor? Digging rainwater catchment basins in our deserts. Why? by creating a large amount of them we can transform the desert southwest into a less arid region. It will still be desert, but it would drastically increase plant life and wild life. Additionally it will enable the carbon capture of billions of tons of CO2 (sell it to the greens). It will eventually reduce the temperature in the region by about 1 degree F. It will recharge the ground water supply (as much as 60 feet over 50 years), help control erosion, and control flooding.
We'd only need to arrest 500,000 illegal aliens a year and set them on this task and it would be finished in about 10 years.
Many people will self deport rather than risk getting caught and being forced to dig holes for a year, reducing the illegal alien problem and the cost of deportation.
Within 20 year the American Desert Southwest would have significantly more wildlife and plantlife (closer to what it was before cattle ate everything and dried out the landscape). Believe it or not it used to be a major beaver trapping area, but as the beaver died, so too did their dams.
It might even allow for the reintroduction of beaver to the area; who are natural dam builders.
Thoughts?
Someone will call you rascist for placing captured illegals in a literal sweat shop. Have them dig ditches for the white man so he can grow trees and eventually cut them down for lumber. White man profits off the backs of POCs. That's the only downside I see.
You are of course correct, but they say that regardless. Literally they say that NOW. So it makes no difference.
Once it gets announced, hundreds of thousands of people will self-deport. Plus, once it starts to get enforced you'll see millions of people self-deport. Saving BILLIONS in legal and transportation costs.
The Current 13th Amend allows for Slavery and such as Punishment for Crimes, and since Crossing or Entering our States Illegally is already a Crime, I don't see a problem with putting them into a Work Prison....
Although I o see a problem with Lowering the CO2 especially knowing that CO2 is PLANT FOOD, an without it they Starve an WE Also Starve....
How about this? No state or federal benefits unless you can prove you're an American citizen. No food cards, no subsidized housing, no Obama phones, zip, zero, nada. Do that and most of them will self-deport.
I like your thinking. You just coined a new phrase “Dam immigrants”. 😀😆🤣
Either this or convict them all as hostile invaders and sentence to be shot in the head, and stack the bodies like sandbags to the same effect.
Morbid much? Maybe.
An excellent idea.
BRILLIANT in so many ways!
Isn't it obvious, you come in illeagaly and are verifiably here without approval, you may never get a visitors permit or citizenship moving forward.
Put them in a detention camp and blast Barry Manilow music 24 hours a day until the cry for mercy and boat ride back across the river!
Not bad. I was thinking along different lines. Like putting the tattoo "WETBACK" on their forehead before deportation. (Maybe with trace radioactive ink?) Make it harder for them to succeed at a second attempt.
I like it, but then, I'm not an illegal alien......
I wouldn't want to alter that large a swath of the environment. Nature knows what it's doing having such a large desert expanse.
Leave it alone
But we already altered it. It used to be far greener, until we brought cattle in, the ranchers killed off the beavers, drained the swamps and made sure all the water, instead of soaking into the soil, went out to sea.
It's you City animals that destroyed everything good.....
You put up Massive Buildings and paved over beautiful Fields for your Parking Lots and Chain Stores....
The only thing Cowboys really do is work WITH Nature, not against it because working against it is futile, and a waste of energy....
An now with all this Stupidity of Vegan and such bullshit, the Farmers are pushed to kill off everything in their fields in order to make the Shit Foods that City Animals want....
It's YOU and Yours that are the Problem, not the Cowboys and Farmers....
Yeah, I'm not a city folk. Live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
And yet you still don't know what Cowboys and Farmers DO....
Maybe you might enjoy going an hanging out with some Real Working Men on a Ranch for a week or two....
It might just change your perspective....
Are you a gay retard
Is your Mother Still a Prostitute???
Do you just have a chip on your shoulder?
Are you just retarded or something?
Where is this coming from asshole?
Yeah major ahole from what I can tell I think your idea is a good one
Your Stupid Claim against RANCHERS, which I am a Rancher....
You threw out a completely wild unsubstantiated claim that Ranchers Drained some Swamps or Lakes, an that's what made the American Deserts, and that's 100% untrue, a Complete Lie....
Ranchers did not do that, they need the water for the Cattle, it would be very Counterproductive to their entire operations....
Those Deserts, like the Mojave an the Arizona Salt Flats were already Deserts long before any Ranchers arrived, and they have been Deserts for Thousands of years, it's impossible for the Ranchers to have ha any Effect on them at all considering they are nothing more than Death Traps, an there's absolutely no way to drive a herd across them....
But my question is WHY would you tell a Massive Lie about Ranchers???
https://earthsky.org/earth/us-deserts-wet-until-8200-years-ago/
I didn't say they weren't deserts, but they were much wetter than they are now. And it is partially the fault of ranchers, it is a KNOWN fact.
Just like when they thought it was a good idea to kill off all the wolves, it ended up with far fewer trees. They reintroduce the wolves;more trees.
Kill off the beaver? Same thing.
Drain wetlands to create more fields...same thing.
And that was 150 years ago. Don't like it, don't blame me.
How do you fix it? simple 2 foot deep ditches with sloping sides, 10 an acre. Enough to catch most rain from most rainfall events. Water soaks into the water table and keeps the soil a little but moister for a little bit longer; enabling desert hardy plants and grasses to grow more fruitfully.
50-years later it is 15% more humid, 1 degree cooler and double to triple the plant life. The Water table is 65' higher, more available for people and agriculture And you might even be able to reintroduce the beaver to re-create the wetlands.
And we should just leave it alone.
Things never end well when man thinks he knows more than the planet does.