Two U.S. service members display the American flag from a military helicopter flying over Citizens Bank Park during a packed baseball game in Philadelphia. Image Credit: US Army
Ok, this is not Trump’s plan, it’s mine. President Trump doesn’t need another wall; he needs a boot camp.
Picture it: a streamlined, no-nonsense path where immigrants earn the stars and stripes by shouldering a rifle, turning wrenches on F-35s, or writing code for the Space Force.
You bleed for the flag, you get the passport—simple, and very American. It’s the sort of brass-tacks deal our ancestors understood before we started handing out benefits like Mormon brochures at the airport.
Trump should push the gas pedal through the floor on this initiative (Sorry, just watched the new F1 movie with Brad Pitt. You can read my review here.
Friedman’s Red-Hot Footnote
The late free-market Jedi economist (watch video below), Milton Friedman, warned that you can’t have both open borders and a cradle-to-grave welfare state; taxpayers will eventually revolt when newcomers tap the keg they paid to fill. We are seeing this play out in Ireland and other parts of the EU right now.
Look across the pond. Germany’s slashing asylum-seeker stipends because benefits became a neon “Free Beer” sign for half the developing world.
Trump should propose “Earn It to Own It” citizenship, which would flip that script: contribute first, collect later. You pull TSA duty at 0300, Uncle Sam stamps your naturalization papers—no muss, no resentment.
Highly Recommend Watching the Full “Free to Choose” series
Ok, this is not Trump’s plan, it’s mine. President Trump doesn’t need another wall; he needs a boot camp.
Picture it: a streamlined, no-nonsense path where immigrants earn the stars and stripes by shouldering a rifle, turning wrenches on F-35s, or writing code for the Space Force.
You bleed for the flag, you get the passport—simple, and very American. It’s the sort of brass-tacks deal our ancestors understood before we started handing out benefits like Mormon brochures at the airport.
Trump should push the gas pedal through the floor on this initiative (Sorry, just watched the new F1 movie with Brad Pitt. You can read my review here.
Friedman’s Red-Hot Footnote
The late free-market Jedi economist (watch video below), Milton Friedman, warned that you can’t have both open borders and a cradle-to-grave welfare state; taxpayers will eventually revolt when newcomers tap the keg they paid to fill. We are seeing this play out in Ireland and other parts of the EU right now.
Look across the pond. Germany’s slashing asylum-seeker stipends because benefits became a neon “Free Beer” sign for half the developing world.
Trump should propose “Earn It to Own It” citizenship, which would flip that script: contribute first, collect later. You pull TSA duty at 0300, Uncle Sam stamps your naturalization papers—no muss, no resentment.
Highly Recommend Watching the Full “Free to Choose” series
Recruiting Crisis Meets Immigration Gold Mine
The U.S. military is so thirsty for bodies it’s lowering standards and dangling enlistment bonuses like that tequila shot whistle-blowing guy at spring break.
Fast-tracking citizenship through service (military or government) solves two nightmares: empty barracks and inflamed taxpayers.
Under this envisioned plan, green-card holders would enter a five-year “service escrow.” Until they log the hours in uniform, civil defense, or critical-skills reserve units, they’d be ineligible for non-emergency government payouts. No contribution? No cookie. By the time they raise their right hand at a swearing-in ceremony, they’ve paid their dues.
Critics will shriek—Good. Expect pearl-clutchers to cry “mercenary state!” Let ’em. The Founding Fathers outsourced freedom to anyone willing to fight for it; the Continental Army was half immigrants. In a country of 330 million souls, asking newcomers to earn the ride isn’t xenophobia—it’s quality control.
Final Lap
Give ambitious immigrants a rifle, a wrench, or a laptop—and a shot at citizenship—while telling welfare barnacles to find another ship’s hull to mooch from.
America should at least follow Australia‘s lead, where they clearly identify labor and expertise shortages and fast-track immigrants who meet these requirements. The current system makes about as much sense as AOC at a Trump rally.
It’s a common-sense handshake Friedman preached and Europe forgot. If Trump makes this the law of the land, America gets stronger soldiers, leaner budgets, and American taxpayers who stop grinding their molars thinking about their tax money going to immigrant gender reassignment surgery.
Sounds like mission freakin’ accomplished to this Navy SEAL.
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