The tide of illegal immigration from or through Mexico slowed down just once in recent years, and that was during the 2009 economic collapse, which was caused entirely by selfish billionaires trying to trick their investors. The Big Short, we could call it, as in the movie. This suggests that if immigrants see that they won’t find work in America, they will stop coming.
That is, the only way American can stop the immigrants is by making itself infernal. Hellish.
Already, this is the view that many Europeans have of America. European tourism in America has declined precipitously for several reasons, including social disruption and the danger of disease and gun violence. Why would tourists want to come to America when they have to stand in line many hours to get on an airplane, where they might get shot by a gun, and when they might get a disease that Europe has eradicated within its borders?
A funny little thing happened this morning at the post office, when I was mailing my taxes to America (federal and state). For many years, I have written “Internal Revenue Service” in such a way that “Internal” was clearly written with a T but which, with a little imagination, you could read as an F. I asked for delivery confirmation. Europe has stopped delivery confirmation directly to the United States, but the UK still does it, so Europe sends delivery confirmation parcels to the UK. (Fortunately, as I told the clerk, pas d’urgence.) He printed out my receipt with the tracking number, then wrote by hand the place to which I was sending the letter: He clearly wrote, in capital letters. INFERNAL REVENU. Perhaps he realized what it meant; in French, hell is enfer.
So if Trump turns America into a dictatorship in which, from one moment to the next, even citizens do not know what their rights might be, the economy will collapse and the immigration problem will be solved, come hell or l’eau haute.
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