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As the numbers and tensions at the Southern Border are mounting, any response provides controversy and no one seem to know what to do and any. Now a criminal justice expert and publisher Paul Brakke, publisher of American Leadership Books, has written to President Trump with a series of suggestions.
These recommendations are based on ideas developed from his research for Fractured America, on healing the divisions in U.S. society, and Uncertain Justice, with chapters on dealing with immigration and the Border crisis, that were just published this year.
In the letter, Brakke points up how the recent influx of migrant families from Central America has overwhelmed our Customs and Border Patrol capabilities and how migrant families have to be discouraged from joining caravans to cross Mexico to apply for asylum. But he feels that just a message to discourage them from coming is not enough, because coyotes may simply increase their price and deposit their cargo at border locations far more dangerous to the families they transport.
Also, he points to the growing resistance which claims that refusing asylum will damage our country’s reputation based on the now outdated philosophy of “give us your poor and huddled masses”.
Brakke suggests the following three measures to deal with the crisis:
1) Insist that all asylum applications be made at their country of origin. If necessary, beef up the staffs at each embassy and consulate in those countries, and combine it with my second suggestion.
2) Indicate by Presidential decree that any asylum application will only be considered for those proficient in English. If it is necessary to take in asylum seekers, it is better to take in those who can best assimilate into U.S. culture. Those who declare asylum at the border should automatically be deported back to their country of origin if their proficiency in English is inadequate.
3) Increase the Customs and Border Patrol presence at illegal crossing points to intercept migrant families that try to enter illegally and immediately deport them.
In his view, these three suggestions will rapidly reduce the flow of migrant families and the resulting buildup of asylum applications.
Brakke also offers suggestions on how to deal with the gang members and drug dealers who are seeking to enter U.S. borders and how to respond to those who don’t want to curtail the assistance to the Central American countries which have not halted the departure of migrants to America.
First, he believes that the U.S. is justified in withholding assistance to those countries, given the level of corruption there, and he recommends that the President’s communications and press secretaries should do more to point up this recognition in the press.
Secondly, since both gang members and drug dealers are continuing to cross our borders, Brakke recommends that they should be stopped with even harsher measures to convince them to stay out or face the consequences. As he points out, the members of MS-13 and other gangs were originally spawned in the jails and prisons in California.
Even if they haven’t committed any known offenses, they can be identified by their tattoos. Instead of deporting individuals, which is like playing a game of cat and mouse with them, Brakke recommends that they should be subjected to harsh punishments. In particular, he proposes that through an Executive Order or quickly adopted legislation, they should be subjected to the following penalties and these should be promoted widely, so the gang members and drug dealers will recognize the serious consequences of attempting to come to America.
He suggests that this penalty he should be the following:
1) They should be locked up in solitary confinement in the highest security US prisons or sent to Guantanamo.
2) A special criminal court or military tribunal should be established to quickly judge cases where gang members have been accused of engaging in murder and those found guilty should be executed.
3) Finally, since these huge gang networks and drug cartels are attacking a helpless population of families and children, which is what is contributing to the crisis on the border, Brakke view these attacks as an act of war within these countries which is directly impacting the U.S. As a result, he suggests that the U.S. should replace the foreign aid to those countries with an offer to send in troops to assist their police if they invite us to do so, much as was done in Colombia in years past to help the country battle against Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel.
In his view, these American troops might not only assist these countries in eradicating the drug dealers, but the troops can also help these countries imprison the gang members that are terrifying their citizens, which is causing the migrant family crisis on our border.
To help implement these recommendations, Brakke has arranged to come to Washington D.C. on request to participate in meetings and assist in preparing Executive orders or legislation.
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