With the new year, my biggest wish is for public servants to
tell the truth and back it up with facts. I also wish them to stop blaming
others for things clearly in their own control.
For starters, stop calling The Wall border security. It has
little to do with border security. Many issues are involved with border
security. Managing the issues takes honest, open communication. Not blame.
At its core, border security is about immigration management
on all borders – land, sea, air and cyberspace. What are the intrusions that
are unwanted? List them. Now go back and list all of the available answers to
each of those intrusions? How do we stop them? How do we monitor them
accurately? How do we control the flow, rate of flow, and quality of
information pertaining to each crossing of the border? What happens to the
guest once in our nation? How do we monitor their presence, location, and
mobility vis a vis the restrictions on their temporary residency in our nation?
How do we remove them quickly and safely when the time has come?
The wall does little. Yes, it is a barrier to movement of
persons and vehicles in land-based situations. It does not stop the flow of materials,
drugs or people, however, on land or in any other setting described above.
This is a national policy issue. It is not a political one,
or at least, ought not be one. Making it so removes the issue from management
consideration.
Each political party has attempted to solve border security
issues and immigration for decades. Political considerations, however, derailed
every attempt. Just ask each of our presidents over the past 8 administrations.
It was congress that failed to solve the problems. Not administrations.
So, if the wall or border security or immigration is your
pipe dream of choice, get serious about determining the best solutions at cost
effective prices. The ball is in your court. Not mine. I don’t care that much
about border security. I have a host of other issues that are far more
important to me: protecting the earth’s sustainability as a living environment
for all of her inhabitants; peace and the elimination of nuclear war now and
for all time; quality of life for all of God’s people regardless of ethnicity,
gender, skin color or religion. All people. Everywhere.
With that perspective, border security is a nonstarter in my
mind.
Happy New Year. And good luck in dealing with the problems
that really matter to the human race.
January 1, 2019
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