Some utopian idealist migration ideas

Migration ideas

Idea 1)  old school US-Canada permissive borders for US-Mexico

The US having laxer and less border security on its border with Canada than it does on its border with Mexico, is obviously racial profiling and thus due to bigotry, since there is no other reason for this vast discrepancy (Canada is mostly white while Mexico is mostly BIPOC).   “The relatively low level of security measures stands in contrast to that of the United States–Mexico border (one-third length of Canada–U.S. border), which is actively patrolled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel to prevent illegal migration and drug trafficking.”  Wikipedia (like Canada doesn’t have drug traffickers themselves) 

“While the Republican leadership in Congress focuses on the Southern border with 10,000 Border Patrol agents stationed along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, only 1/10th that amount is on the Canadian border, a border that is 2.5 times as long as the Mexican border.  Recent news stories state that people drive, walk, sail, ski, and sled across the Northern border all the time” Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

Also see here, here

The US barely had border security on its border with Canada before 9/11 (see here) and also passports weren’t required to go between the US and Canada before 9/11. 

To not give off this obvious appearance of bigotry and double standards as mentioned above ,the US would and really should implement the same lax border security on its border with Mexico that it had on its border with Canada pre 9/11 and the US would and really should require no passport requirement for Mexicans to enter the US as it had no passport requirement for Canadians to enter the US pre 9/11. 

Idea 2) The US needs more BIPOC inclusive migration policies along with encouraging more migration from Europe, Eastern Asia, Cuba, etc that is conjoined with pro-affirmative action policies. 

High levels of skilled migration can be good if it is used drive the economy and to make up for the population decline/shortage of labor that the majority of western countries face due to the silent generationers, baby boomers and generation jones peopls leaving the workforce and aging. This is just one example of reasonable policies conservatives can have.

Idea 3) to work toward post backlog clearing migration reform,  the US could build two offshore Autonomous Republics as sanctuary republics for migrants, in particular illegal migrants etc. Similar to Refugee Nation, Korean People's Association in Manchuria

Those two lands would be Autonomous Republics of the United States (similar to how Crimea is a Autonomous Republic of Ukraine). 

All migrants and illegal migrants around the world would be able to move to these 2 US Autonomous Republics , much easier than it is now for migrants/illegal immigrants from Australians and New Zealanders to live in each other’s country due to the trans Tasman arrangement . 

One of those two migrant, illegal immigrant US Autonomous Republics would be a real life version of mythological Atlantis, and be exactly where it is on this map. 

The other migrant, illegal immigrant US Autonomous Republic would be a real life version of mythological Antillia and be exactly where it is on this map. 

The US can use landfill, terraforming and other methods to do that. Once the backlogs are cleared this sanctuary republic concept will have paved the way for a clear path to implementing my migration reform ideas in this blog

Idea 4) Personally I feel the US should implement a migration system based on the holocracy model and Dignity proposal for illegal immigrants so illegal immigrants who can’t meet the conditions of one of those systems could be able to meet the conditions of the other migration system

This holocracy model is a new tier or holocracy of longterm permanent residency that would allow immigrants who are in the US illegally who don’t meet the Dignity proposal requirements to legally attain citizenship in 18 years or so

If they register for the new tier or holocracy , illegal immigrants who have lived illegally in the country for a substantial amount of time would be able to work and live in US, while they wait to become citizens, as long as they pay taxes and don’t receive any felony convictions. 

All illegal immigrants who don’t meet the holocracy model requirements might be eligible under the amnesty to get 10-year work visas so long as they pass a criminal background check, pay taxes, and continue taking an American job. The amnesty states that these illegal aliens will not be eligible for “means-tested benefits or entitlements” and must pay a fine 

After holding work visas for 10 years, illegal aliens would be eligible to go through a five-year program, which includes learning English and taking civics courses, to eventually secure a green card. Once a green card is secured, illegal aliens are able to apply to become naturalized American citizens 

This also includes mandatory E-Verify (see here for why), funding for a “full border infrastructure system,” asylum reform, and increased interior immigration enforcement but a more progressive LPR visa program

Idea 5)  This moderate type of migration reform

Idea 6) The public migration policies should incrementally move towards a different horizon of migration governance in which all people’s rights are respected. For this, we would need an elaboration of citizenship and human mobility laws that are dignified and respectful of human rights.

But to expand rights within the current regulatory framework, until we reach that horizon personally I feel the US should moderately move toward bringing back their 1870s through early 1920s migration system. Eventually when we reach that horizon we will move on from this migration system 

Idea 7) Legality wise, I feel that the US should consider making all illegals who have lived in the US and contribute in some way to our society for at least a few years (give or take a year or two), and basically integrated “de facto legal by default” (but without publicly making such a virtue signaling proclamation, only through actions not words)

This way , there would be less bickering and divisiveness over this issue since that would be a stealth way to extremely decrease illegals in the US without deporting them or creating harsh anti immigration policies (but different than former President Ronald Reagan did it with his 1986 IRCA, in part because this wouldn’t be amnesty but a fundamental change to permanently blur or even remove the lines between legal and ‘illegal’ immigrant while retro fitting current illegals into this change by making them ‘de facto legal by default’). 

Can’t complain about ‘illegal’ immigrants if there is hardly a line between legal and illegal immigrants.

We should really try to prioritize the concept of citizenship by putting the fact of residence first while we also separate access to political rights from the degree of national identification. 

Giving primacy to citizenship over nationality would imply giving priority to our political society, and this would entail a less organic conception of that community, and more open. podemos

The US is the border of North America. But that cannot be translated into being the border control police. This must be translated into a fair and humanitarian vision of migration, which respects the right to migrate and the right to life. podemos

Idea 7) Create stronger borders to avoid conflict with and capitalist influence from capitalist countries (A lot of our migrants come from Capitalist or Capitalist adjacent countries). We would inspire other countries to do the same

Strong borders mean less of that bourgeois capitalist conflict and influence (which we get now from mass migration, chain migration, illegal migration etc) as we lay the ground work for and begin to transition from a Capitalist country that sadly treats migrants like second class citizens to a open world

These stronger borders would not be for restricting migration, these stronger borders would be for restricting reverse Neoliberal/Capitalism imperialism and by extension the bourgeois and aristocratic baggage that comes with it (which by doing so will help the legal and illegal migrants who are already living in the US get richer and more equality since the closer we get to an open world the more income equality grows and barriers between classes shrink which can only happen by stronger borders to prevent capitalistic barriers to this transition)  

Because to do otherwise is no a bonanza to the type of managerial class people in the bourgeois or aristocratic milieu, who like, say, cheap nannies and so forth. Not so good for workers on the low end.

But during this stronger borders phase, there would be a the Conservative Party UK's Points Based Immigration System along with the US setting up a system of annual temporary citizen exchanges (trading millions of legal American citizens for citizens in other countries a year, especially in North America and Central America) . 

But preferences would be given for high levels of skilled immigration (as mentioned in idea 2) hopefully eventual citizens (in order to cherry pick the better migrants who suits the needs of and are tailored to the needs of the economy but much less preference for migrants who provide no tangible benefit, or who can't speak any English or Spanish) under this temporary citizen exchange. These temporary citizen exchanges would not delay or hamper our phasing out of capitalism as non stronger borders would

If after temporarily re living in the US after a few years, these temporary citizen exchange migrants in the US Live together assimilate or are bicultural, are not convicted of crimes, terrorism or treason, don’t create chain migration, are ideally patriotic , show minimal knowledge of US history, government and the English language, have a steady job, are in college or the military, they can become permanent citizens of the US if they pay a one time exchange to permanent citizen tax and renounce their citizenship of their previous country to make their permanent residency official

This would be done to create a open world that will be extremely more pro migrant than our current capitalist country with lax or open borders can ever be. A little less migration NOW for MUCH MORE migration in the future 

Think of this like putting a tourniquet on a huge wound to stop the bleeding, here strong borders would stop the bleeding done by the commidifaction and abuses of capitalism , allowing our country to move to become part of an open world at which time the bleeding (ie the cronies of capitalism) will stop and we will be in open world utopia with open borders and as pro of a migrant country as we can have.

This will be all thanks to us transitioning from Capitalism to an open world which cannot be done with the pettiness of capitalism pouring into our country via mass migration, illegal migration and chain migration 

So everything I write above is for the US until we usher in an open world and also because I am being contrarian (being too pro migrant is a mainstream ‘liberal’ view to have, being like I am on migration is contrarian). 

THEN we can implement this system:

Have the United States ,Mexico and Central America form a supranational nation  (similar to the European Union or European States of Europe) which would by default make the vast majority of illegals who are currently living in the US 'legal' and treat migration between the US and those countries as migration between EU countries is treated. 

I'd also want every few years for there to be a mandatory Brexit type vote for the US, Mexico and those Central American countries in said supernational union to decide if they want to stay or pull out of this suprnational union, similar to Britain's Brexit vote years back. 

This would mean no border checks between North America Union countries or states . However, the migration policies to this North America Union countries or states from outside of North America would mesh with Left wing European borderhawks migration views/platform fused with the Bush’s Center’s migration views/platform

Eventually as Capitalism is phased out and socialism is reigned in, we would relax some of the criteria for settlement,  the criteria for residence and work permits and reestablish legal and safe pathways

Idea 8) Pass the migration bill via an executive order that Gavin Newsom said in his December 2023 debate with Ron Deasantis, that Gavin and congress drew up to strengthen the border but that the Republicans rejected , fused with an amendment calling for even more progressive migration policies based off of the 1986 IRCA

Idea 9) Jessica Tarlov has some good views on migrants here. Also see here, maybe have her become the immigration czar for the US. She would be a great person to have in charge of migration due to her level headness, compassion, timely stern-ness, common sense and fairness