FEED or FIGHT

by David Nuttle

Most developing nations lack finances, resources, brain power, educational & technical systems, as well as honest and competent government to grow economies fast enough to

provide meaningful employment for all their youth. This problem results in a global pool of frustrated and angry youth vulnerable to recruitment by criminal gangs, narco-terrorists, & terrorists plus insurgent groups. The scope of this crisis is measured by the fact that out of a current global population of 8 billion, over 2 billion are living in extreme poverty with not less than 785 million living on the brink of starvation. In the Darfur region of Sudan, alone, over 400,000 people died of starvation and nearly 2 million were displaced. An inability to "feed" populations result in armed conflicts, increased criminal, illegal drug, & human trafficking activities. Not a good situation.

As a result of the above said conditions, population surveys indicate that not less than 1,4 billion of the world's poor would come to the U. S. if they could find a way to do so. POTUS Biden's open borders policy validated this desire when at least 18 million illegal immigrants came to the U. S. during his term as POTUS. The added cause for such illegal entry is the fact that legal entry procedures are complex, slow, frustrating, and expensive. There are also frequent quotas or restrictions on who may enter the U. S.

My suggested solution to the above problems is for the U. S. to create a "Development Study Program," where we select at least 50 families each, from developing nations we want to assist, for a 3-year study program here. These families would be identified, vetted, cleared for good health, and recruited for this effort. In the U. S. they would receive extensive training in areas needed by their home nations; e. g. trades, technical skills, finance, management, law, innovation, indentureship, leadership, and corruption elimination. At the end of subject training, as agreed in their program contract, they would return to their home nations to give assistance using what they have learned. After 3-years of such vital service to their home nations, they would be allowed to return to the U. S., if they so desired, under very special & promising provisions of subject program.

The "Development Study Program" would replace the U. S. Agency for Intl. Development now effectively terminated for corruption, incompetence, and focus on a "woke" agenda. By assisting locals to perform development tasks, nations assisted should gain opportunities to have economic growth rapid enough to keep their youth gainfully employed and thus reduce human resources available to groups causing most of the armed conflicts, worldwide.

Under the INA 328 program foreign nationals who serve 1-year with a unit of the U. S. military may submit an INA Form 426 to be naturalized as a U. S. citizen. Graduates of said "Development Study Program" would serve for 3-years as an indigenous Peace Corps that should allow them, if they desire, to be naturalized as U. S. citizens as we do for those who serve in our military as indicated above.

If we fail to assist developing nations to achieve economic growth fast enough to employ all their youth, we should expect to have to fight many while in the service of the "bad guys."