"Robert Gammon" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
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Jim Yanik wrote:

Robert Gammon wrote in
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We can agree that the coyote abuse the HELL out of their customers in
all sorts of ways. Well publicized case here in South texas where a
18 wheeler driver walked away from a rig in 90+ degree heat leaving 20
some odd Hispanic refugees to nearly all die in the heat last year.

However, the quantity of heroin and other controlled drugs sold in the
USA cannot be accounted for solely by the actions of mules. Yes,
there are drug mules, but I doubt that the folks who crontrol the bulk
of the narcotics trade use mules to move their product. Yes Jamacians
use mules to move drugs into Europe. I have doubts that the massive
cocaine production in South America, the massive poppy fields across
Asia move into the markets of the USA and Europe to any significant
degree in the guts of mules. Its hundreds of tons of this stuff
consumed each year, it can't all be coming in the guts of mules, only
a very very minor portion can be accounted for in this manner.


Which has NOTHING to do with the fact that it's illegal and illegal
"immigrants" are the ones committing the felonies by being drug mules.
How much doesn't matter,it's STILL a felony crime.This is just
WEASELLING AWAY from the claim that Mexican illegals don't commit
crimes when coming to the US.




We can both agree that crossing any of the borders of the USA without
permission is a violation of US Immigration Law, and we SHOULD not treat
violators of this law any differently than violators of any other law.
However, we do treat them differently than other criminals. Police
forces (state and local) are not on the lookout to arrest them, neither
are National Guard, or the FBI. Their faces and names are not posted in
Post Offices and Police Stations. We only have the US Border Patrol (on
land) and their bosses at the INS to enforce this law, and they do not
have the resources to shutdown illegal immigration. Heck the INS cannot
detect when a student overstays their visa to study at one of our
universities.

But to suggest that the heart of our drug problems would be solved by
getting rid of illegal immigrants who are being used as drug mules is
LUDICROUS!!! We cannot possibly attribute illegals who act as mules for
the TONS of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, hashish, etc that flow from the
Third World nations to other parts of the world, USA included. Yes,
Columbia uses Mexico as a path to the USA. They also use Florida, and
most of the Gulf Coast states to move their product into our system. If
drug mules were eliminated, the drug lords would find some other method
to get the product in. Heck, it would only make a difference to the
marginal distributor one who only needed to move modest amounts of
product anyway.



Drugs are also coming over land borders with Canada, and even by canoe in
a few places, according to an interesting news story I saw a couple of
years back. And, the Coast Guard has stated clearly that there's no way
they can track every single pleasure boat that crosses the Great Lakes or
the St. Lawrence River.


Or Florida or Georgia or South Carolina or Mississippi or Alabama, or
Louisiana, or Texas (by god the hundreds of miles of isolated farmland on
the Texas Gulf coast alone could be an invitation to some, yet moving it
form the cost inland is a BIG problem.

Add in small planes who don't file flight plans with the FAA, fly in low
under radar until they are well inland, then land, dump their cargo and
flea to a legal airport.


Even so, I think Mr. Yanik is right. I think one human can carry more heroin
or cocaine in a swallowed condom than can be packed into an airplane. It's
only logical. Think about it.