By Paul Weiser
In news stories about North Korea’s recent missile fusillade - soon to be echoed by Syria’s and Iran’s against Israel - Japan’s response was particularly noteworthy. For it seems Japan has a problem similar to America’s in one significant respect (and Israel’s, for that matter) and is means to take an effective step to combat it.
North Korea launched missiles in Japan’s general direction, without notice or warning. Given their notorious inaccuracy and unreliability, one could certainly have hit. This is beyond serious; it was an act of war. Japan’s response is instructive.
Instead of launching - or threatening to launch - a counter-attack with its substantial air and naval forces, Japan hit the Communist regime where it hurts: they’re stopping remittances from Japan. Japan uses Koreans to compensate for its dwindling labor force; now they will have to spend their money in Japan or return to their Marxist hellhole.
America must watch carefully. There are many ways to send remittances, from electronic transfer to smuggled containers of currency; Japan will find ways to interdict all. And we must apply each and every such technique to Mexico. For the reason Mexican illegals live and work here is to send most of their ill-gotten gains back (where, of course, corrupt officials steal much of it). Conversely, they are sustained here in lean times by remittances from the south. Illegals live in squalor because of money transfers; cutting them off will force them to leave, or spend the money in ways that will make them consumers rather than peons.
It’s true that cutting the remittance lifeline may not only starve out the cancer of illegal immigration in America but cause regime change in Mexico. All those padrons with ungreased palms, unable to afford their accustomed amenities! Which is no bad thing, either.
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