It's quite extraordinary how invaders are now called "undocumented immigrants". Historically, invaders of territory are treated as such and there is a conflict of conquest, with one or other winning the wars. < illegal immigration has imposed enormous costs on American society -- in terms of the high rates of violent crime committed by illegals, and as a result of their high rates of dependence on social welfare benefits funded by U.S. taxpayers. >
If it was understood that each citizenship is worth something like $2 million and that's the value that an invader acquires by a successful invasion, it should not be surprising that invasion is extremely popular.
While they can't transact that value, if they wish to stay and enjoy a lifetime of being an immigrant with citizenship granted, then they capture that value for themselves and their descendants.
They inherit without payment all the roads, hospitals, airports, water supplies, power stations, national grid, sewerage, railways, spectrum, legal system, political system, military facilities, prisons [not that they wish to be guests], wharves, public parks, oceans, rivers, mountains, air, natural resources minerals and the eminent domain possession of all other assets within the realm.
That's quite a gain for no effort whatsoever. It took hundreds of years with hundreds of millions of people working to produce that value [other than the natural resources and even those had to be discovered and established]. All that gets handed over without any charge whatsoever as though mere invasion is establishment of a property right.
It's quite astounding to me.
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