This Friday’s shoot-the-shit topic is on “The Great Immigration Debate”. For years now, we’ve all been hearing about the “broken” immigration systems, but has anyone listed what is wrong and specifically how it should be fixed? The right wing blasts the left wing and vice versa but no one has detailed just what is it that needs fixing, and more importantly what they’ll do to fix it. All I know, with certainty, is that undocumented immigrants don’t like our immigration process, which seems like a reasonable position given their status.

1. Securing the border is not a fix, that’s simply corrective action. Last time I checked it falls right at the top of the list of responsibilities governments have to their citizens under the umbrella of national security.
2. Do we amend laws already on the books? I can dig that, but someone needs to say from what to what.
3. Does INS need more workers and PCs  to improve applicant processing. What’s the issue? Resource allocation, process inefficiencies, or more likely a combination of both. No one seems to know, and that concerns me profoundly! However, what concerns me most of all is that our inaction incentivises the originating countries from focusing on caring for their citizens and developing their economies.

The list goes on and on, but I want to understand just what is it that’s broken and what will be done to fix it.

I come from a world where you look at problems with a multidimensional perspective; you layout facts, collect supporting data, develop plans base on an understanding of the data and risk rewards ;optimizing a solution, then moving forward tracking progress while collecting performance data from the feedback cycle. I have yet to see an effective SOLUTION, not a patch , to any problem without outlining the specifics.

What do you think?

Have A Great Weekend Everybody!