Vice President Harris and Secretary Mayorkas need to apply “Systems Thinking” to their Border Crisis Strategy.
According to the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) guidelines it is the Federal Government’s responsibility to protect the
nation's borders—land, air, and sea—from the illegal entry of people, weapons,
drugs, and contraband is vital to our homeland security, as well as economic
prosperity.
The USA Border Process continues to get worse, and everyone blames everyone else and like everything today it is mostly based on Partisan Political Agendas. Unfortunately, most people just want the problem solved and expect our political leaders to do their job. “The Border Process works within a System. The Federal Government owns the System.”
A system is a whole consisting of two or more parts, (1) each of which can affect the performance or properties of the whole, (2) none of which can have an independent effect on the whole, and (3) no subgroup of which can have independent effect on the whole. In short, then, a system is a whole that cannot be divided into independent parts or subgroups of parts.
Basically, this means you must look at the Broder System from an end-to-end perspective and involve all participating people, places and processes in order to make lasting and change and improvement.
As I have said in many posts, without using “systems thinking” and involving all groups (interdependencies) from beginning to end you will only continue to band aid (tamper) the system.
Think
of the 1 as one dollar, the 10 as ten dollars and the 100 as one hundred
dollars. The concept is simple when you realize that most problems originate at
the beginning of a process/system and grow much larger and complex as they move
through the process.
Below is a graphic example. Please note the measures and feedback points that must be
established along the system. Remember when Automobile companies checked for
defects after the car was built? It took years to figure out that we need to
build quality in at the design stage way up front as well as all throughout
the selling and manufacture processes that made up the system. The key is “UPFRONT”
so you won’t experience the “UNKOWN.”
I
use dollars (you can also use "Degrees of Complexity") because that is what gets everyone's attention (Plus, it's true). If we practice
prevention and institute requirements or standards at the beginning of the
process (Diplomatic Reasoning/Power with the sending countries and continue to
set and monitor them as we progress through the Border System, we can save many
dollars and pain upfront in the system the cost (1$) will be minimal as opposed
to downstream (more importantly people). When the people are in Mexico and we
discover problems, it will cost 10 times as much to solve and correct the
problem. In the United States it will be 100 times more costly and complex to
identify the problems and to solve them.
By far the biggest problem is the unknown, those illegals that go undetected and are never accounted for will costs an unknow amount of dollars that result in system failures that will have devastating effects to our society and economic well-being. I don't have a problem with legal immigration to the United States, but illegals are not vetted for health diseases or past criminal activities so instead of remaining the problem of the foreign country they become the problem of the U.S.
