Borderless By Design
ISBN: 979-8888453278
Congressman Troy E. Nehls undertook the seismic effort to publish a book about border security along with US policy and politics. The stuff in these pages is a red-hot issue right now. Nehls has unique insights from his perch within Congress.
Mr. Nehls hits on the unique concept of using a metaphor concerning a time machine between two points in American history–1890 and 2024. Using economic analysis, he shows how the modern era would happily pay people their wages from 1890 as the cost is far less. The people in 1890 would be content, as the wages in 2024 are far greater than those in 1890. Time, inflation, opportunity costs, and myriads of other factors are involved in a typical economic discussion while here these concepts are turned on their head to show the logic of a market that is free from the constraints of time. The logical conclusion to this chain of reasoning is that these time-travelers become hardened to their actual time since they are jumping around so often and are therefore out of tune with the issues in their own respective places. They begin to see themselves as a part of a community of time-traveling economic hitmen in a sense, and not so much as people who live in 2024 or those who live in 1890.
Mr. Nehls uses this analogy to escape from contemporary discussions about the Mexico border where polarising racial narratives make it impossible to logically discuss the issues without some fervent accusation of someone coming from a place of discrimination as opposed to math. This does a great job of removing the pathos from the topic so that one can simply focus factually on how the argument would advance with America compared to itself only at different times.
The book shows us that Mexico has traditionally worked in tandem with Big Agricultural businesses to cause what Nehls terms “pushes and pulls” that are coincidental to harvest times and labor needs. These pushes and pulls left Mexicans poor enough that they could never settle in the US in the 30’s and 40’s, but rich enough to want to come. At the same time, the presence of these Mexican immigrants is enough to drive wages down for those who are American citizens thus allowing agricultural businesses to continue making large sums of cash while keeping wages depressed. A push is defined as a reason to want to leave where one is, whereas a pull is defined as a reason that is an incentive to go somewhere else.
Also indicated here are how the drug cartels use a similar kind of logic to not only ferry drugs across the border, but to traffic human beings for labor, sex, or whatever else it is that cartels desire.
All of these issues, Nehls points out, are historically backed by Democrats since they require a dependent population either through government benefits or quickly expedited citizenship to gain needed votes to stay in office. The tactic, it seems, is to give people just enough incentive to want to come here from places like Latin America, but never enough that they can stand on their own feet and vote in some way the Democratic party might not like.
The cartels (and others) have learned to use the loopholes of laws concerning children coming with their families to the US to create a kind of rent-a-child circular business where kids are brought to the US and then returned to Mexico for big money. The kids have special laws when they are with their families (or assumed families) that make it harder for the people crossing the border to be deported. Cartels use this to their advantage.
Other connections are made between the World Economic Forum, the Davos economic group in Switzerland, and the World Economic Forum who all work together with liberal Democrats who are trying to produce a world without borders or nations in order, one concludes, to begin a kind of New World Order (Reich?) with themselves at the top. Nehls argues that COVID was part of this effort. The other issue that they wish to use is Global Climate Change.
Nehls quotes statistics to prove that crime goes up with more immigration, although one is reminded that there are “lies, damn lies, and statistics” as Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Even without the statistics, though, it is not hard to comprehend that a country that allows people in from places that have tremendous social problems is going to likely suffer some magnification of those problems as those people become more numerous within a country.
Nehls’s main thesis is that all of these dirty tricks are being used to ultimately destroy the United States as a place that holds Constitutionally derived freedoms and liberties so that a small handful of rich globalists no longer have to worry about America opposing their intrigues. He also is not shy to say that the 2020 election was stolen by these same people using a tactic where large cities are targeted to change voting demographics while allowing the rest of the state to remain more Republican.
To finish the time-traveling analogy, these rich elitists are in a club no one else is in, and their allegiance is to no one other than their bank accounts. They want to eliminate the middle class and create a scenario where there are two classes of people–the very rich and the very poor. Guess which one they wish to remain?
The final chapters of the book deal with all the reforms that Donald Trump implemented, and argue that these policies were effective in patching the dam. Indeed, there are many, many restrictions Trump put into place that many will, no doubt, not be aware of. Discouragingly, most of these policies were removed by the current Biden administration, since, the book argues, they did not win the election, and they are going to need their bag of dirty tricks again for the next election. The book documents each of these policies, and why they were there, and it does show that Trump’s administration was tough on immigration and the border. After all, nothing says border security quite like building a big wall between one country and another. China did this long ago, and the wall still stands today.
A most interesting piece, speaking of China, the book also advances, is that the Fentanyl overdoses and other drug issues in the United States appertain to China getting revenge on the US for the 1800s and the generation of an opioid addiction that both Britain and the US enabled by shipping a lot of poppy that direction. Shipping the Fentanyl to the border into the US is China’s revenge, although the ultimate aim is to restore China to its former 1700s glory by those who lead it. How they intend to do this using communism is beyond the scope of this book, but would make an interesting read on its own.
While many progressive Democrats would not be interested in reading this book as the stance it outlines flies directly in the face of what that platform holds there are enough facts here to make the read worthwhile. There are many, many pieces of the picture delineated that cannot be denied as factual and historical. The statistics are the weakest part since COVID and subsequent events make most statistics suspect at best. (Who is funding them, who did the study, why did they do it, etc.) Of course, when a fact is obvious enough, one requires no statistics. It does not take a genius to see that if you allow the wrong kinds of people into your country for the wrong reasons, your country is going to have serious internal issues. Nehls makes the case it does. Everyone owes it to themselves to see if they agree with him.
Author’s Note: Bombardier Books, the publisher, made a digital review copy available. You can check out their site here: Bombardier Books Thanks!
