National Press Release: Creating Borders of Opportunity

Creating Borders of Opportunity to Slow and Control Illegal Immigration

Economic Development Zones: Government working with businesses, not raiding them, to constructively solve the need for low cost labor and effectively manage illegal immigration.

Having spent two and a half years working in a third world country and then writing about it in my book “Corruption Arts in Third World International Business: Traps, Swizzles, and Swindles Used by the Master Players” (ISBN: 0-9766996-0), I can tell you that the required economic and social changes in the countries to our south will happen extremely slow or not at all.  This means that illegal immigration to the U.S. is not going away anytime soon.   In addition, because of the baby boomer retirement trend we now face, our need for workers, especially low cost workers, is not going away soon either.  Without low cost workers our ability to compete globally will continue to erode.  So why not address both issues at the same time by creating large scale Economic Development Zones (EDZs) on our side of the border with Mexico and small scale ones within states that do not border Mexico.

An EDZ is a controlled access, fenced area within the United States, which is set aside by state governments for special use of low cost, illegal immigrant labor by businesses that need access to it to fill critical job vacancies and be more globally competitive.  At the same time, EDZs have within them ongoing manageable processes to bring illegal immigrants into the work force by giving them a special immigrant classification in the short term, moving those who meet U.S. Immigration requirements to regular immigrant status over the midterm and then allowing them to eventually apply for full citizenship if they want.  More workers moving into their economies mean greater economic growth for states and the U.S. in general. For basic diagrams click here: EDZ Diagrams

For Frequently Asked Questions, click here: EDZ FAQ

U.S. businesses both inside and outside EDZ’s would be allowed to employ illegal immigrant workers as soon as the workers have registered and received their special immigrant status.  Businesses hiring workers with this special classification would be exempt from U.S. minimum wage requirements and providing benefits and would be allowed to show immigrant labor as an appropriate business expense.  Businesses inside the EDZs could also receive other government incentives for operating there such as tax exemptions and so on.

By setting up EDZs state governments get better control of illegal immigrants within their areas and a reduction in outsourcing pressures caused by globalization; outsourcing that continues to significantly erode both federal and state government tax bases.  In addition, the federal government benefits immensely from the cost savings to the INS for not having to invade our own businesses to capture and deport illegal immigrants.  Over the long run, the feds would also benefit by placing special processing centers for amnesty application within EDZs, causing a flow of illegal immigrants already in the country and allowing for more efficient processing of requests.
 
When set up along the border with Mexico, most immigrants would work in the EDZs and go back home when they are not working because most of them prefer to be close to their friends and families across the border.  This means they spend much of their earnings on the Mexican side of the border, which creates more jobs and opportunities there and reduces economic pressures behind illegal immigration.  When workers go back to Mexico during their off times, they continue to use the low cost medical services and buy low cost medicine in Mexico thus reducing the burden on our country.
If the above is not enough to convince you that EDZs are a win for all, here are some other big benefits of worth mentioning:
 
1. If immigrants in EDZs were allowed to study and apply for entry into the United States, having the potential for citizenship down the road, we would have a way to continually resupply our aging work force, thus allowing U.S. businesses, both inside and outside the EDZs, to continue to focus on and drive forward competition and productivity issues key to their survival.

2. U.S. companies operating in EDZs would continue to receive the benefits of copyright, trademark, patent, and other important protections of the U.S. legal system.

3. EDZs would put a damper on human trafficking across our border.

4. EDZs would form the foundations for bilingual education programs where masses of Spanish-speaking and English-speaking people teach each other their native languages.

5. EDZs would form the foundation for immigrant job training and skill development based on business and government requirements making immigrants a sought after resource rather than blight upon the land.

In closing, if you would like to have a clearer picture of what it’s like to live in and do business in third world countries and why immigration pressures are not likely to ease in the foreseeable future, please read my book, Corruption Arts in Third World International Business: Traps, Swizzles, and Swindles Used by the Master Players”  (ISBN: 0-9766996-0).  Also, if you would like your children to learn about these business environments play our reality board game, Xemorpheum® with them and insist that the game be played in high schools, colleges and universities using our Xemorpheum® Facilitator Guide.  These products are available through www.globalinsights.biz. From my experience and perspective, there is nothing more important to our children’s and country’s future than to be well educated and informed about how third world countries really operate as kingdoms even though they label themselves democracies.

Rich Gottbreht
President
Global Insights, LLC
(303) 905-0415
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rich.gottbreht@globalinsights.biz

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