The Trafalgar Square Solution To Illegal Immigration: Stop Feeding The Illegals!

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I approve of ICE’s deportation raids and arrests in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and I feel they’re not only not only good for America but necessary to show that there really is a rule of law. But arresting and deporting illegal aliens is not the only way of solving the problem of illegals in America as I explain below.

As a very young person, aged about 6, I saw the Disney movie of Mary Poppins, which showed the famous pigeons in Trafalgar Square, with a song called “Feed The Birds” by Julie Andrews, about an old woman who sold birdseed.

As an only slightly older person, I actually visited London and fed them myself. I bought a cup of birdseed, and pigeons came and roosted on me and ate out of my hand. Like this:

Or this:

There may be a photograph of me somewhere, age 9, wearing these pigeons, but I can’t find it. Those, from the Museum of London of anonymous young Britons, gives the general idea. Recently, I did a Google map search for Nelson’s Column, which brings up the picture you see below….and all the pigeons are gone.

As a 9-year-old, I never thought about the negative externalities of 35,000 pigeons in a public square. But they were there, obviously. Wikipedia’s article on Trafalgar Square says

“The desirability of the birds’ presence was contentious: their droppings disfigured stonework, and the flock, estimated at its peak to be 35,000, was considered a health hazard.”

In the year 2003, Red Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, declared a Year Zero on the Trafalgar Square pigeons, and got rid of them.

You may be wondering how he did this.