Migrant Crisis in US

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I made the mistake back in the late 1980’s of commenting on the President of my employer at the time (a major library automation firm) t-shirt that had a caricature of him on the front of that shirt. I made the crack that it looked like Harold Washington, who was the then current mayor of Chicago. I nearly got my fat ass fired for that crack.

I haven’t read either the Tribune or the Sun-Times, nor watched WGN-TV in years, but Chicago is never going to change it’s attitude on race relations.

They might not have a choice, the illegals keep pouring over the border and quite obviously Texas can't house all of them. Learning from the Australian experience, the success of "border jumpers" quickly feeds back to their home countries so precipitates more to come.

Australia was eventually forced to set up offshore detention centres to dissuade future illegals. I assume the US will eventually have to come up with such plans like a re-purposed Guantanamo bay but to house families.

More and more people will come over time. Maybe need to take a page out of China's playbook and just build a few new cities to house people in. Canada needs to do the same - sprout a handful of new major cities across the country to spread populations out a bit better and avoid the intense growing pains at existing major cities.

It's a thought, anyways. Might not be attractive enough to keep newcomers in new cities.. they might all be drawn the the existing ones and they'll just keep sprawling outwards & upwards. And get even more crazy expensive.

Careful planning would need to go into making the new cities attractive.

They would need to be located along already-existing train routes and near already-existing highways.

There would also need to be an initial source of decent-paying jobs, such as maybe a government-funded research lab of some kind, plus maybe a college with a medical school and a specialized hospital of some kind. A college would attract other potential employers looking to employ college grads.

Won't work. China can force internal migration, We can't. Australia has programs to attract new migrants to regional Australia. Subsidised housing and other incentives. The problem is lack of real job prospects and children have no intention of living in a zone where career prospects are limited and there is a massive boredom factor in that there is nothing exciting to do.

One plan Australia has that might work is a Sydney - Melbourne fast train. People living along the train line can access work in the two biggest cities