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Home Front: Culture Wars
Immigration problems solved!
2020-01-21
[American Thinker] - I read here (Spanish Minister) that a Spanish government official is worried that Spain needs eight or nine million immigrants to keep the country from diving into a demographic tailspin. The nub of the problem seems to be that Spain has a desperate shortage of more people to tax so they can keep paying for bureaucrats ‐ uh, I mean essential government services. The conventional wisdom is to bring in African and Middle Eastern migrants by the shipload. Of course, there is opposition from hateful, ignorant Spanish citizens who whine about the inevitable disappearance of European culture from large swaths of the country. Rubes! Nativists! France and Germany seem to be dealing well enough with it. Just ask the French and German bureaucrats.

What a thorny problem. Where can Spain get its hands on millions of migrants? Those bureaucrats must be saved. Where, oh, where?

Gasp! I know a place which has millions of unappreciated illegal immigrants. The U.S. is flooded with uncounted numbers of people who aren't officially here. They live in the shadows and have had to go through a lot of trouble to get there. Why can't we just send them to Spain? It's win-win.

But wait, this idea gets even better. They already speak Spanish in Spain. How's that for a happy coincidence? The immigrants don't even need to learn English. In fact, it's a win-win-win!
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#10  ^ Gubbamint: "that's crazy talk!"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-21 19:18  

#9  Spain has a desperate shortage of more people to tax so they can keep paying for bureaucrats

Well, they could reduce the bureaucratic load.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-01-21 17:32  

#8  Spain should have done this with North Africa back when they controlled half the known world. Would have solved a lot of problems and they might even have made the area prosperous like it was during the Roman era.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-01-21 10:37  

#7  #1 its like the French and the Quebecese. Or for that matter deep New England and deep Southern let alone in the Hood, variations of American English.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-21 06:41  

#6  @#4 20 Million? It is much closer to 30 million, possibly more. Then add in anchor babies.
Posted by: Slinetch Whiting1862   2020-01-21 05:20  

#5  20 million illegals and the devastation they're causing to our schools, communities, budgets, public safety and rule of law

It's not the illegals, it's the "elites".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-21 02:37  

#4  Throw in a forward USAF base - we foot the bill - and a Trump Tower to be named later.

Anything to be rid of our 20 million illegals and the devastation they're causing to our schools, communities, budgets, public safety and rule of law
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-21 01:50  

#3  But would Spain go for it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-21 01:36  

#2  Give each illegal a Spanish bank account, to be activated with $10,000 after 6 months' residence in Spain and give him a free one-way ticket to Madrid. No return.

The above would actually cost us LESS over the next five years than what they'll cost us if we can't get rid of them otherwise. Deal of the century, actually.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-21 01:28  

#1  LOL, the they already speak spanish in Spain would have my wife laughing her ass off. The immigrants we are dealing with do not speak Spanish, they speak street Mexican. Believe me, there is a difference. They'd be able to communicate, but they are most definitely not the same.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-01-21 01:17  

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