Is Our Border Really Safe?
Question by GEORGE B: Is our border really safe?
The Obama Administration has been saying that our borders are more secure than any time in the last 30 years. Unfortunately there is plenty of evidence saying that just the opposite is true. Not to worry though, many of the criminals will no longer be criminals after they cross our borders and are given amnesty.
Before you decide read all the following….
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/us/texas-agencys-web-site-warns-of-border-violence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/drug-cartels-cross-rio-grande-kidnap-us-citizens-smuggling-runs-not-mile-border-secure
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/apr/23/louie-gohmert/louie-gohmert-says-al-qaeda-has-camps-drug-cartels/
http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/01/22/texas-ranchers-using-ak47s-to-defend-against-cartel-invaders/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45440385/ns/nbcnightlynews/t/along-mexican-border-us-ranchers-say-they-live-fear/#.UYVXbKKHvTo
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/01/mexican-drug-cartels-reportedly-dispatching-agents-deep-inside-us/
http://thecattlemanmagazine.com/archives/2010/12/no-man’s-land.html
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/media-blackout-mexican-drug-cartels-seize-texas-ranch_08122010
http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/the-8-most-dangerous-border-towns-in-america.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/los-zetas-drug-cartel-seizes-2-u-s-ranches-texas
Best answer:
Answer by Irv S
Wake up!
‘Safety’, is now, and has always been, an illusion, and providing it
a convenient excuse for more restrictions on the public for very small
real return on the investment in inconvenience and loss of liberty.
Answer by Your Secret Santa
I think you are confusing two issues here.
“The border is more secure” means something different than “The border is safe.”
“Secure” refers to it being “locked up”, like when you secure your bicycle to a bike rack with a lock, or you secure your home by locking the doors and turning on the alarm system.
No matter how well you secure your bike, your home, or the border, there is no guarantee of 100% safety. Someone can find always find a way around your security measures if they really want to break in.
The border actually is more secure than it used to be. Additional funding during the Obama Administration had increased border surveillance, fencing, the number of patrol drones, and the number of border patrol officers: http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?bc=25667%7C43061
As for making us safe from the nasty drug cartels, ask any law-abiding citizen in Mexico what they would like to see done about the cartels. They would likely say, “You Americans need to stop buying illegal drugs!” It is the American appetite for narcotics that fuels the drug trade. The people of Mexico suffer much more from cartel-related crime than we do here, and they wish we’d just stop buying vast quantities of heroin, cocaine, meth, and marijuana from the drug traffickers.
And now, as these drugs travel through Mexico to the USA, more Mexican people are getting their first taste of these narcotics and becoming addicts as well: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2013/0125/As-Mexico-s-traffickers-ship-drugs-north-they-leave-addicts-in-their-wake
The US government is doing its part to secure the border, but until our people stop using drugs, the traffickers will continue their violent criminal behavior around the border, both here and in Mexico. It’s a matter of supply and demand. If marijuana were legalized here, we’d tax and regulate it like cigarettes and alcohol, and remove the demand for marijuana from Mexico overnight. If we could fund more rehab for our current drug addicts, rather than just tossing them in jail, the decreasing demand for drugs will help smother the narcotics trade.
I can’t blame the Obama Administration for cartel crime when every American who purchases illegal narcotics from overseas has to share the blame. That includes not only the poor, urban addicts who typically spring to mind who one says “drug abuse”, but also the rich people who can afford cocaine, the rural meth users, and recreational pot users from all walks of life who don’t care whether their pot is home-grown or imported.
Most of your links are about drug cartel violence. When are we going to boycott the cartels, by not buying their “products”?
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