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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (open.substack.com)   2838 thread views

Reaper Drones over Houston: A War in Mexico Would Mean War in America

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Take I wrote on increasing calls in Republican and bi-partisan spaces for a Military intervention into Mexico against the Cartels, and why this would inevitably lead to armed conflict within America itself, along with a possible death spiral of instability in the wider North American region.

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One question really jumped out. If you don't think Texas martial law and comparable insanity would prevent cartel operations...why would a border wall? If the idea is just to make it harder to move product, smugglers have already demonstrated plenty of creativity. Static obstacles just don't work alone.

Anyway, as a Texan, I thought this was a neat article.

Because a border wall increases the marginal cost of trying to cross the border, and allows the country to begin to get a handle on its own internal affairs.

You'll never get illegal immigration to zero, that doesn't mean "do nothing" is the correct approach. Unless you're from the WEF or similar globalist group where no borders is the entire solution.

You'll never get illegal immigration to zero, that doesn't mean "do nothing" is the correct approach. Unless you're from the WEF or similar globalist group where no borders is the entire solution.

Getting illegal immigration to zero is absolutely possible and you wouldn't even need anything more complicated than the surveillance state that currently exists in the US. Right now the deep state that effectively controls that apparatus wants to bring as many migrants in as possible, but if there was a significant change in political will the tools exist to identify every single illegal immigrant overnight. The repatriation would take a bit longer, but a lot of them would doubtless self deport when being an illegal immigrant carries actual real consequences with it.

I'm assuming you mean hiring, but yes. I've made a longer post on this topic previously that spoke about the importance of prosecuting the people who hire illegal immigrants. That's such a seriously damaging attack on society that I'm shocked more people don't advocate for draconian punishments for it.

I'm anti illegal immigration and I'm deadly serious on that topic. I've previously posted that I believe hiring of illegal immigrants should result in significant, 5-7 year prison terms accompanied with asset seizures and punitive fines on a charge that explicitly pierces the corporate veil.

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