In article , "Doug Kanter" wrote:
"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Joseph Meehan"
wrote:
Jim Yanik wrote:...
I note that now many illegals are bringing illegal drugs along with
them to help defray the cost of their being smuggled into the US.
IOW,mules.

Really! So if we were to open the boarders then we could stop this
kind of drug trade.

Think it through...

If we open the borders, then the ones who are now bringing drugs across to
pay
for their passage can just as easily -- probably *more* easily -- continue
to
bring drugs across, this time to sell, and *keep* the money instead of
having
to give it to the people who smuggle them across.

In other words, open borders = dramatically *increased* incentive to
smuggle
drugs into the country. And dramatically increased *opportunity* to do so.
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)


Why are you so focused on drugs? There's little or nothing we can do to stop
them. Where there's demand, someone will appear with a supply. Prohibition
didn't work. Neither does the "war on drugs".

"Focused on drugs"? Not me. I was just responding to the silly idea that open
borders would somehow reduce the drug problem. Of course you're right that the
"sar on drugs" isn't working, and for exactly the same reason that Prohibition
didn't.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.