There are certain things which can at best be described as our wish list. We may wish that there was no illegal immigrants to our land between 1948 and 1972. We may wish that we could drive out all those through a new movement. We could wish that we take a big eraser wipe the existence of Bangladesh once for all to solve this migration issue.
But unless you follow the examples of Hitler and establish all those concentration camps or gas chambers, how exactly do you expel all these millions of people ? Think practically. It would be a political, logistical and humanitarian challenge to banish millions of those people who have resided in our land for nearly half a century. We should definitely preserve our culture and identity. But whether we like it or not, we have to learn to accommodate the so called migrants . The solution lies in extending economic co-operation between Assam and its neighbors which will ensure that there is uniform economic opportunity in both sides of border and which will eventually discourage unidirectional migration purely on economic grounds. Whether we like it or not, we have to realize Human Migration is a very basic trait of homo-sapiens and will always continue. Otherwise, your and my forefathers will still be tilling the soils in the upper reaches of the Great Yantze River in China. Going further back in history, may be we could still be digging for water holes in the sub-saharan Africa. Check this out from National Geographics https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html Utpal Brahma New Jersey, USA --- kuladip baro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/2950
