Intrigued by these wonderful people, I traveled to the border they share with the neighboring nation of Freedonia. Freedonia is a poor nation and poorly managed. The government is rife with corruption. Crime is out of control and there is virtually no middle class. People are either rich or they are poor and most of them are poor. Freedonians constantly try to flee the hell of their own nation by sneaking into Edonia.
The problem of illegal immigration had gotten so bad that the Edonians erected a huge wall the entire length of their 1,000 mile border with Freedonia. The wall is fully manned by their border security agency. The Edonians spent a lot of money on the wall and the security guards but they determined that the cost of millions of poorly educated and criminally minded Freedonians in their country was much more expensive than the cost of the wall.
I asked them why they didn't use their military forces to man the wall but they said that guarding the wall was not a good job for their military forces as it did not enhance their primary mission of fighting their nation's wars. A security agency with the authority and training to enforce law was a much better fit. I could not find fault with their logic.
I also asked them if they ever gave amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens who had crossed the border before the wall went up. They looked at me incredulously and explained that such a foolish act would be unfair to the people who had legally immigrated. They also explained that granting amnesty would only encourage more illegal immigrants to try to get into the country. They said it was fairly easy to find all the illegals and send them back to Freedonia. They merely required that anyone who applied for a job, voted, received public assistance, went to a public school, or was ever arrested for anything, provide proof of their citizenship. Again, I found no flaw in their thinking.
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