"Jim Yanik" wrote in message
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(Doug Miller) wrote in
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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.


People here made the claim that illegals don't commit many
crimes,generally
"obey the law". The fact that they smuggle drugs is one more datapoint
proving otherwise.


Maybe you should define WHAT TYPE of illegals you're talking about.
Certainly, you'd agree that the largest sheer numbers consist of people
coming over the border with Mexico, looking for work. There have been plenty
of news stories about them, and the task faced by border patrol cops.
Virtually none of those stories mention drugs as the main concern.