Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Touch Back or Touch Down

A new – “new” in the sense that it hasn’t been touched in a while – immigration bill is being considered. I thought that one of its provisions was especially interesting. That item is called “touch back.” The border-jumpers will have to go back to their countries of origin for a short time – probably a nanosecond, but it’ll take longer than that just to get back through the U.S. border.

I thought that we could streamline this process a lot. Soil from the countries of origin could be imported into the U.S. (Remember those coffins in the scary movies?) This will eliminate all that wasted time and effort so that they can get back to work, or whatever they were doing before. I’m sure that there’ll be no shortage of business ventures for this... Anyway, just something to consider.

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