The Caravan Is Coming

THE CARAVAN IS COMING. "Caravan" is Donald Trump's word for it, as far as I know, if not, he picked up on it early, and let's give him credit; he'll take credit whether or not anybody given it to him. The Caravan is a group, a mob, an army of at least four thousand people, mostly Salvadoran and Guatemalan children, walking from Guatemala to the United States, or trying to. Last I heard they were being stopped at the Guatemalan Mexican border. They may never reach the U.S. They may be better off if they don't. Trump has threatened Mexico if Mexico doesn't stop the caravan and has pledged to use the military to defend the border in the event Mexico fails. Why this country doesn't use the military to defend the border already is due to a law, a law which it seems strange that the U.S. government bothers to obey. Trump talks about "the caravan" as if it were a mob of sub humans, some inferior species of rodent, or something. Not even human, not even worth considering, nothing but trouble, like a plague of disease, or locusts. Oh, what an idiot Trump is. Millions of Americans, primarily conservatives, agree with Donald J. Trump that immigration into America by foreigners is a bed thing, that it harms America, and that it should be stopped immediately, if not sooner. Immigration is Trump's big topic, its what won him the presidency, and its a big priority for his supporters, the right wing, many of them evangelical Christians. As they are wrong about everything else, Trump and his right wing mob are dead wrong about immigrants. All you have to do is calculate the cost of taking them in, and helping them become American workers. This includes food, clothing, shelter, training, etc, all the stuff you have to have. Then, find the value of all the taxes, income, sales, property, all taxes, that all these people will pay into he system during their working lives. It isn't even close. Immigrants are, have always been, and always will be hugely profitably, beneficial to America. The dirty little secret is that the birth rate of Americas is too low to sustain the population, has been for a long time, and will be from now on. Without immigrants, America dies off. If we want to keep Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a whole bunch of other social programs, we had better not only allow immigrants into this country, we had better encourage them to come here, just to save our country, just like they always have. If you calculate the cost of taking in the whole caravan, getting them established in America, compared to the value of the tax money they will contribute when they begin their careers, its no contest. The caravan could finance Social Security. The caravan could be a gold mine for America. Its too bad that Trump and the conservative fools who promulgate false policies every time, don't understand that.