No doubt about it. Christie’s presidential aspirations were just about dead; but now he’s come up with a proposal that is clearly intended to get himself a piece of Trump’s looney hater vote.
Christie has proposed to “track undocumented immigrants like FedEx packages.”
Here’s the key quote from him on this:
You go online and at any moment, FedEx can tell you where that package is. Yet we let people come into this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.
We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in and then when your time is up, 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.’
I think Christie is legitimately asking the question: “Why should Donald Trump get all the press attention and right-wing nut-job love for making wacky and offensive statements? I can do that too.”
Could it backfire on him, though? Might this tracking idea be seen as almost totalitarian in its level of governmental intrusiveness? That’s where the brilliance of this idea really shows. It’s not the government. It will be a FedEx tracking system.
Christie said he’s “going to have Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, come work for the government for three months. Just come for three months to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and show these people how to run the tracking system.”
Private companies track people all the time, and no one cares about that. Christie will just be making government operate more like a business. But instead of tracking everything the employees do, government will track everything that anyone in this country with a visa does. Everytime they go to the bathroom, I guess someone will know it.
I’m sure that once we start doing this, other countries will do it to our citizens with visas. It will make the entire world a better place, I’m sure.
This even gives Christie a new excuse for the G.W. Bridge fiasco. He can say he blocked the bridge because he was sure there were probably a couple of undocumented immigrants driving across it at the time.
and let Chris Christie manage the traffic?
Wouldn’t that satisfy the anti-immigrant crowd?
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….or people here on visas and work permits?
They are not American citizens and do not gave the expectations of lack of supervision that citizens do.
yeah – chip ’em like dogs! give the females depo-provera implants to prevent anchor babies!