Blue Card Overview

We have several problems concerning the stability of the United States.

First is the predicted financial collapse of the Social Security

system. There are too few workers contributing, and too many seniors

drawing down their retirement funds. With the declining birth rate,

now at 1.6 per couple, there is little long-term hope of having enough

young people making significant contributions to the system. The short term is even worse.

Another significant problem is the huge number of

undocumented aliens (aka ‘illegals’) now residing in the country. They

now number about 9% of the population. We think. Reasonable

estimates are that there were twenty million before the Biden

administration, and during his four-year term twelve million were

added. To say that we do not know who millions of them are is anunderstatement.

The Trump administration has pledged that they will all leave.

Immediately the ‘worst of the worst’ were singled out and about

250,000 of them have been removed. Just over one million have self-

deported, so there is a long way to go to get to zero.

There is certainly unprecedented support for their removal, with

Republicans approving at a 93% rate, Unaffiliated voters at 70% and

Democrats at 59%. Rarely are polls this one-sided when the country is

not at war. Both seem mathematically insurmountable by themselves.

But what if the solutions to both were intertwined in a symbiotic plan?

What might be accomplished playing one problem off of the other?

The only way to handle the 30 million still in the country and meet

the President’s pledge to remove them would be to entice them to self-

deport. That is the first issue, and a huge one.

A way to gain enough workers to fund the Social Security shortfall

would be to import them. Of course, many potential workers are

already here as undocumented aliens so using them might be an option.

A tertiary problem is that when Covid-19 hit the unemployment

rate spiked to a Great Depression level of 14.9%. Revenues to Social

Security collapsed proportionately and huge deficits kicked in for five

years. Would it be possible to address that as well?

One must understand that to get this giant rabbit to come out of a

hat requires a few compromises. With that in mind, here is a plan.

Green Card

Enter the Blue Card. While the Green Card is the unofficial name

of the card and system for getting the right to stay in the country and

work, there are some features of it that would be a hindrance to trying

to get it to function as a solution to the undocumented alien issues.

First, it can lead to citizenship. That is a reward, and it may not be

palatable to many to have citizenship granted to those who broke the

law when they entered the country. Second, millions of people have

waited and followed the rules to get into the United States, and it

would be unfair to them to have others enter the country legally before them.

Blue Card

A card of a different color (Blue) and with different benefits and

restrictions may be a more appropriate second route to get into the

same legal status as a Green Card: a permanent work permit.