greg334
Veteran Expediter
I still have access to a lot of research papers and studies done by major think tanks and I occasionally read a few while I prepare an article or two for what ever website I want to post it on. Sometimes these studies are private and we are asked not to publish the material or reference it in any thing we write but rather just float the concepts out there.
Late last night I got an email from someone pointing out a bizarre study done to improve our immigration system, I wish I could give a link to it but I can not say who sponsored it or which think tank did it but I can tell you what the study entailed.
Oh before I continue, I think it is flatbedin that uses the signature line;
“How is it that we can know exactly were one cow with mad-cows-disease is, among millions of millions of cows in America, yet we don't have a clue as to were millions of illegal aliens or terrorist are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of Immigration...â€
Well think about that for a moment and then read on.
The study first assumes that we shut down the borders completely and then took the FedEx and UPS models for tracking packages in their system and applied it to the immigration issues we have tracking people. They have found if the US federal government would contract the building of an computer system to FedEx or UPS based on their package tracking system and allow them to come up with the specs for ID cards, the intake process for immigrants to come here and to allow FedEx or UPS to manage the system we would reduce the cost by 85%, track people a lot easier and have the ability to expand the system to fix the problems that we have with a cohesive system that operates across the different systems and be able to track someone if they apply to go to school or get a drivers license. By the way the study pointed out that the computer systems of the federal government are fragmented so badly that if they continue on the path they are going without serious intervention, we will not be able to have any cross departments exchange of data at all and this was supposed to be solved by ALGORE in 1995.
So imaging FedEx or UPS taking over our immigration tracking, do you think it would work? I do!
Late last night I got an email from someone pointing out a bizarre study done to improve our immigration system, I wish I could give a link to it but I can not say who sponsored it or which think tank did it but I can tell you what the study entailed.
Oh before I continue, I think it is flatbedin that uses the signature line;
“How is it that we can know exactly were one cow with mad-cows-disease is, among millions of millions of cows in America, yet we don't have a clue as to were millions of illegal aliens or terrorist are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of Immigration...â€
Well think about that for a moment and then read on.
The study first assumes that we shut down the borders completely and then took the FedEx and UPS models for tracking packages in their system and applied it to the immigration issues we have tracking people. They have found if the US federal government would contract the building of an computer system to FedEx or UPS based on their package tracking system and allow them to come up with the specs for ID cards, the intake process for immigrants to come here and to allow FedEx or UPS to manage the system we would reduce the cost by 85%, track people a lot easier and have the ability to expand the system to fix the problems that we have with a cohesive system that operates across the different systems and be able to track someone if they apply to go to school or get a drivers license. By the way the study pointed out that the computer systems of the federal government are fragmented so badly that if they continue on the path they are going without serious intervention, we will not be able to have any cross departments exchange of data at all and this was supposed to be solved by ALGORE in 1995.
So imaging FedEx or UPS taking over our immigration tracking, do you think it would work? I do!
