Mexico: Border Wall + Increased Border Security Looks Like it was a good idea

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

Sure looks like a good idea with all of this violence in Mexico now, doesn't it? The wars are spilling into the US too, with Phoenix and other similar cities getting some of the runoff.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7961670.stm

The US government is to increase security at the country's border with Mexico, in an attempt to combat drug cartels, the White House has announced.

The number of immigration, customs and anti-drug agents and gun law enforcement officers will be increased, officials said.

Some 8,000 people have died in Mexico over the past two years amid bitter turf wars between rival drugs gangs.

The south-west US has also seen rising violence and kidnappings.

 

[hasoos]

If you take the money out of the drugs by legalizing, the problem goes away. The war on drugs is a waste of cash, and the violence we are seeing is a direct result of people selling a commodity inflated in value because of the criminal penalties associated with it.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

If you take the money out of the drugs by legalizing, the problem goes away. The war on drugs is a waste of cash, and the violence we are seeing is a direct result of people selling a commodity inflated in value because of the criminal penalties associated with it.

So you would advocate legalizing heroin and cocaine?

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/no...mexicos-drug-war-death-toll-8463-and-counting

The drugs in question in Mexico’s drug war—cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines/amphetamines, and marijuana—were responsible for 8,736 drug deaths in one year in the US, although 100% of these drugs do not pass through Mexico. Mexico has only recently become a major source for methamphetamines/amphetamines; it currently supplies about 53% of the meth found in the US. About 90% of the US’ cocaine passes through Mexico. About 11% of heroin seized in the US comes from Asia and does not pass through Mexico. For our purposes, the percentage of US marijuana that originates in Mexico is a moot point because it does not cause fatal overdoses. Therefore, it can be said that Mexico’s drug trafficking industry is not responsible for 100% of the US’ 8,736 fatal overdoses. However, because the CDC does not offer a drug-by-drug breakdown of overdose deaths, which would allow a more accurate calculation of how many US overdose deaths are related to Mexican drug trafficking, we’ll continue assuming that all 8,736 overdose deaths are related to Mexican drug trafficking, knowing that this is an inflated estimate.