Usually in response to employment needs, refugee situations, or a general more-people-equals-more-GDP policy, migration policy is very simplistic. Numerous different programs, each with its own criteria, and an overarching system for checking if people are bad.

I am willing to suggest that migration policies should be more nuanced and consider other criteria.

Let’s reverse engineer this by looking at which aspects of migration bother the existing populace the most:

Migrant Crime – In Australia right now there is a lot of media focus on crime committed by Somalian youths, especially attacking each other with machetes. While unemployment and other non-migration factors could be part of the problem, the use of machetes is clearly cultural, and maybe the crime is as well. If you look at what crime is like in their homeland, there is clearly a cultural aspect that will remain while they are first generation migrants. A summary says:

Crime in Somalia remains extremely high and multifaceted, driven by armed groups, weak governance, and instability. Violent incidents like murders, robberies, kidnappings, and terrorism dominate, particularly in areas controlled by al-Shabaab

On the flipside, migrants from low-crime lands like Japan are presumably committing far fewer crimes, and especially fewer violent crimes. So one number that contributes to the “should they be allowed in” points system is what crime is like where they come from, using regional data or city data if possible.

Incompatibility with Western Culture – In Australia, those who assimilate easiest are those with the most similar cultures, like NZ, UK, US and Canada. Next easiest are countries that have a predominantly Christian or non-religious culture. And next easiest is where religion is limited to church-going and not deeply ingrained in society, where rejecting the religion means ostracism from the family. Or where genital mutilation, arranged marriages, or child brides are a facet.

So points should be given for cultural similarity, religious similarity (or no religion) and the depth of religion.

Language – Obviously, a migrant will fit in quicker and easier if they know the language, and will grow into their new culture more easily if they understand signage and TV and conversations with locals more easily.

Employment – I would keep this outside of the matrix, along with personal wealth. They should be separate considerations. The matrix should totally revolve around the ability and potential to fit in culturally.

Refugees versus Migrants – I don’t believe that refugees and migrants should be treated the same. Refugees should be chosen based on the extraordinary nature of their situation, combined with the above factors. And their path to citizenship should not be as easy, given that they will be less compatible. Considering that we would hope that their homeland becomes somewhere they can return to one day, then for me one generation, 10-20 years, is how long they should be non-citizens. And in that time, if they return “home”, their refugee status is revoked. Furthermore, if their “home” becomes an okay place to live once more, they will be returned, along with perhaps some funds to help.

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What we get instead is very mixed messages, with the killers not especially ideological. We get a man with a trans lover writing “you are gay if you read this” on the bullet casing. Trump’s attempted assassin was in a Republican household, and gave a whopping $15 to some Democratic cause. Someone who attacks a Mormon church has a pro-Trump sign on their fence.

America is, I think, unique, in that we know which political party people are registered with, as public record. Everywhere else tries their best to keep who you vote for secret. I cannot see how such public knowledge is in the public good. As in, I could easily be fooling people with my registration, and still vote for the other side in a federal election.

The real reason, it would seem, is money. Third parties seeking political donations want contact details so they can beg for money. Which means making it public. Quite sickening, really. The extra reason is primaries. In countries like Australia, the local party body chooses who runs for office, rarely with the input of all party members. We can change parties if we don’t like who they pick. Meanwhile the US is obsessed with elections, from high school, to sheriffs, to DAs… It is everywhere, all the time.

With someone sowing so much hate and division as Trump, we need to reduce the ammo. No more public records of political affiliation.

And, we need to start a new trend. 50 years ago we called such killers psychos, nutjobs, unhinged and so on. They still are. Let’s call them anything other than left or right, because their political ideology is nothing more than a lens, at best, to focus their madness through. And not the cause.

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That Trump did the crime is not in doubt. The jury, all vetted by the defence, were unanimous. One juror said their only source of news was Truth Social, so that is meaningful. Few, if any, conservatives are saying that Trump did not do the crime. Few, if any, are suggesting that the encounter with Stormy Daniels didn’t happen, even though it is a he said, she said situation. That is because it is so befitting the character of Trump.

What is at issue, the division is around whether this should have gone to court at all.

Republicans – it was a witch-hunt, the crime was trivial, the judge and prosecutors were motivated by politics, and Biden was ultimately behind it all.
Democrats – nobody is above the law, the crime was not trivial, it was an attempt to illegally affect the election

Guess what? Both sides are totally correct, except for Biden being involved.

Trump has been a shady, shifty character his entire life, and once he became president in 2016, he was on the radar of many prosecutors. Republican prosecutors of course were no interesting in pursuing anything, which means the remainder are Democrats. Democrats who found him so detestable, and such a compulsive liar, that they wanted to take him down. The problem of course is having politics in the US legal system – other countries avoid such craziness.

Trump is clearly guilty in all the cases he is facing. The lesson here is that if you want to be a politician, and stay out of legal trouble, don’t let your crimes be so blatant and public. For example, we literally saw the case of the boxes in Mar-A-Lago, Florida, unfold in the media, and he is clearly guilty. He said the boxes weren’t there, but they were. There is a phone call where he asks for more votes… The plot to overturn the election.

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