Flashback – Mexican Immigration Law

An interesting older article on Mexican immigration law:

Mexico has a radical idea for a rational immigration policy that most Americans would love. However, Mexican officials haven’t been sharing that idea with us as they press for our Congress to adopt the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill.

That’s too bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue. Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

At a time when the Supreme Court and many politicians seek to bring American law in line with foreign legal norms, it’s noteworthy that nobody has argued that the U.S. look at how Mexico deals with immigration and what it might teach us about how best to solve our illegal immigration problem. Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:

It would be a great amygdala hijack of the left than for Trump to implement some seemingly oppressive, horrific immigration law, and then when liberals complain, show it is merely the same rules Americans would have faced in one of the foreign countries sending us its refugees/migrants/prison-populations.

If Trump implemented this law, liberals complained, and then Trump pointed out that it is exactly how the Mexican migrants voted to treat Americans it would ignite feelings of competition and aggression which would fuel support for his position, and opposition to Mexico. Liberals could not attack it without risking being out-grouped in the tribal psychological environment which it would elicit.

The amygdala hijack is supercharged by that sense of no good options. It makes the underlying concept explode in cognitive significance. And this would trigger that because the moment Trump couched leftist opposition to him as leftist support for Mexicans against Americans in a competitive environment, that will trigger the reflexive leftist awareness of in-grouping and out-grouping. Then liberals either have to say the oppressive Mexican law is fair to Americans in Mexico, and thus fair for Mexicans in America, or they can maintain it is unfair to Mexicans in America, but they are fine with it being applied to their fellow Americans by Mexico.

It would be extraordinarily irritating to them.

Spread r/K Theory, because what is good for the goose is good for the gander.