Imagine that you have an upcoming business trip to California. You might be required to carry your passport along with you when you pass through border control and immigration…
…and imagine if that scenario actually became a reality.
California to Secede From the United States as a Separate Nation?
Californians will go to the polls in the spring of 2019 in a historic vote to decide by referendum if California should secede from the United States and become an independent country.
According to Yes California, “As the sixth largest economy in the world, California is more economically powerful than France and has a population larger than Poland. Point by point, California compares and competes with countries, not just the 49 other states.”
Using the citizen’s ballot measure process to put an initiative before the voters in 2018 which would establish an independence plebiscite on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, the campaign of Yes California must collect 585,407 valid signatures from registered voters in California by Tuesday, July 25, 2017.
There are nine reasons why this secession is being considered — all of which are explained at the aforementioned Internet web site:
- Peace and security
- Elections and government
- Trade and regulation
- Debt and taxes
- Immigration
- Natural resources
- The environment
- Health and medicine
- Education
Summary
California becoming a sovereign nation should be interesting if only because a northern portion of the state wants to secede and become the state of Jefferson — and of course, that does not include the possibility for the District of Columbia to become a state as well.
The United States has been divided on a number of issues in recent years; and while the possibility of its boundaries and borders being altered might have been shrugged off years ago as a stunt of sorts, there may be an increased chance of that happening — although the processes of secession or statehood is difficult enough that it is not probable for all intents and purposes.
If that wall between Mexico and the United States is actually built, perhaps it can be done after California secedes from the United States and becomes its own country — saving American citizens from paying for approximately 140.4 miles of a total of 1,933.4 miles of that wall…
Are you eventually going to need a passport to visit San Diego Wild Animal Park? Photograph ©2006 by Brian Cohen.
