Auction off citizenship. (Background checks required.)
That way we get smart, hard-working, entrepreneurial, conservative, wealthy people.
If we held a Dutch Auction each year for 10,000 citizens, I’ll bet we could get $1M each. That’s $10B of deficit reduction from abroad before they start paying taxes, opening businesses, hiring Americans and spending their money.
The WSJ suggested this a week or two ago, about a decade after I regularly recommended it here on FR.
It takes a long time before good ideas are acknowledged.
But the real problem is the business world wants uneducated, low cost workers and the Mexicans fill their bill. The NEA is doing the best they can to dumb down the American students just in case immigration doesn’t pass in Congress.