The solution:

In the 1980s, Joanne King Herring, a Texas socialite and Republican — began to work with the democratic congressman Charlie Wilson, to try and find a way to help the people of Afghanistan — who were being slaughtered by Russians, very similar to what’s going on with the cartels in Mexico today.

What Joanne and Charlie accomplished — led to the end of the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet wall in Germany in the early 90s.

Rebuilding took more of a zigzag course because after the Afghanistan war — America wasn’t really in the business of rebuilding countries anymore. That ended after World War II and considerable expense of the American taxpayer.

What Joanne was however able to achieve — was the rebuilding of a city in Afghanistan — that over the course of several years has proven to not only allow for women’s empowement, but job creation but full defensibility against the Taliban.

That’s city is Khairabad, And it’s the model for the Herring plan. Today it’s a city of over 30,000 people.

Joanne has a simple proposal — that is impressive in design and effective in what it could achieve.

Take what was accomplished in Khairabad — -The Herring model — Which is based upon five key Pillars of city development and defensibility. Take that model and work with the president of Honduras Guatemala and El Salvador — The three countries that comprise the northern triangle, And identify a border area where we could set up migrant processing and the ability to start creating defensible cities.

The cost of development of each city is under $1 million and would Provide housing and sustainable resourcing for up to 20,000 people. Building a network of the cities would allow for the creation of smaller regions and those regions could be tied into either the agricultural or industrial production sectors of Latin America.

Joanne also has made recommendations to a number of American corporations — these are companies that could easily become involved in creating not just trade opportunities — but long ranging training and job opportunities, that could quickly allow for the building of society.

Society, that supports Latin America while allowing for the northern triangle to become an increasingly important trade partner with the United States.

So here’s our proposal. The Joanne King Herring Foundation which was established earlier this year with a vision of helping migrants and displaced people around the world — Wants them to develop this as a bipartisan Policy aimed at solving the illegal immigration problem both now and into the future.

It also allows for the existing systems of migration and asylum seeking to work effectively — because you’re not trying to take every single person who is just looking for a better way of life, and try and force them through Asylum processes (that really should only be utilized for people who are being persecuted in foreign lands).

Further, it opens the doors for conversations around a new alien visa (For those of you that don’t know alien is the term that the government uses for anyone who is not American — We’re not referring to Area 51 😉).

I’ve begun to work with Joanne on figuring out how we can turn this into a proper policy proposal — and I beseech all of you who read this article — share this with your friends, colleagues, and people within your party — Whatever party that is.

We need to come up with an American solution that allows us to provide for our communities; to invest in healthcare that helps our citizens — but at the same time help the downtrodden, in a way that doesn’t present an undue burden to us and future generations.