New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Saturday offered up a creative solution to the problem of illegal immigration: track immigrants the same way FedEx tracks packages.
“I’m going to have Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, come work for the government for three months,” the Republican presidential candidate said at a town hall event in New Hampshire. “Just come for three months to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and show these people.”
Christie said that 40 percent of undocumented immigrants in the country did not cross the U.S. border with Mexico, but instead came into the country legally on visas.
“We let people come into this country with visas and the minute they come in, we lose track of them,” he said.
He suggested the FedEx model would prevent immigrants from overstaying their visas.
“We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in
and then when your time is up—whether it’s 3 months or 6 months or 9 months, 12 months, however long your visa is—then we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, ‘Excuse me, it’s time to go,'” Christie said.
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Christie went on to say that expired visa immigrants would be sent back boxed up in foam peanuts. Overnight.
Not even Christie is wrong all of the time. Losing track of people overstaying visas is a serious flaw in the system. Yet I fear the solution he wants is akin to tattooing UPC scanner codes on people’s foreheads and constant laser-scan-reading in the public sphere.
You hit it out of the park on this one Guv,this is third site I’ve seen that has posted this,and as of yet no one can figure how far up your arse you reached to pull this idea out.
Great idea! We can tattoo a bar code on their ass!
Christie: What? Herman Cain already used the 9-9-9 tax plan? Damn. Wait! The chip in my shoulder is sending me a message. Let’s track immigrants like …"