Idea for labor intensive large scale start-up Suppose the United States adopted a new foreign policy: America will not tolerate open borders and mass illegal immigration. However, instead of Mexico or any other country sending millions of illegal immigrants, the USA will accept official requests from other nations to become new states in the Union. The catch is that a foreign country that wants to join the Unite States must first go through the territorial process, essentially an educational program whereby the foreign nation agrees whole heartedly to become American and adopt our successful culture as its own. This means American law, the American political system, American style government, participation in the American military, and so forth. This includes a requirement for the clear majority of its citizens to learn American English. It also means economic opportunity for its people, partly by free emigration (within the American system, not immigration) inasmuch as any territory becomes US land, -with admission to the current 50 states on condition of ability to speak quality English- and partly by free access to markets in new territories by American business firms. Suppose there is a request from Honduras, or Panama, or for that matter, Mexico itself (to be divided into maybe 20 new states eventually). The territorial "waiting period" could be almost anything but the ideal might be similar to the historic territories of the USA, some becoming states in a decade or so, others taking 25 years, with hopefully not many taking longer. How are we to educate Hondurans or Panamanians, etc, to learn fluent English? Translators. Hence, the need for multitudes of translators. Almost anyone could do this with the proper re-training, and ability to learn the language of the people who they need to teach English to. Thus, win / win. Large numbers of translators learn Spanish or another language and when their retraining is completed they go to Honduras or Panama a la Peace Corps volunteers, and spend 2 years (by contract) teaching people English. If this is something they find fulfilling they can "re-up" with a nice bonus for a 5 year contract. OK, there will be attrition, but the people in the program back in the original 50 states would be bilingual and, for that reason, have new job opportunities for import / export businesses, for businesses that deal with foreign Spanish speakers like banks or travel agencies, for government agencies, and so forth. Some might see needs for new kinds of businesses and launch starts ups. How many people would it take to teach English to everyone in Honduras or Panama? Tens of thousands, maybe more like a hundred thousand over the course of years. If it is Mexico, or Colombia, or Peru, there might well be a need for millions. Costs for translators would be split between today's USA and the new territory (foreign country that becomes a territory). There would also be accelerated programs available for the well off, who would pay for the privilege, hence going some way toward making the overall program sustainable. Businesses might want people right away who are bilingual and would pay to hire them after such people have been trained by the US gvt. More implications than this, but as an idea. Billy
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