Additionally, do your homework, and tell us how much fentanyl will fit in a few backpacks vs the amount of people that quantity can kill and put a price on it. Hint: 2 milligrams of fentanyl is considered deadly.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:05 pmJust show us the facts that back up the assertion that most of the drugs come through the ports of entry.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:53 pmGee, how do we know its not illegal Martians bringing the drugs in by invisible spaceship?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:44 pmThat's your how do you prove a negative logic....carry on.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:48 pmShow us the facts to back that up. How do we know how much unseized dope get's through at the ports of entry, overland between them, by air, sea or mail.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:19 am despite the FACT that most drugs come in via ports of entry. Dopes.
We don't know how much gets through, or how & where. We seize more at the ports because we have the ability to search there.
What % of dope entering the US are we seizing ?
Barriers make it possible to more effectively surveil & respond to the open areas of the border, between the ports of entry.
Prove its not Martians.
More seriously, Salty, we've penetrated the drug cartels again and again and we have lots of human intelligence about their various methods.
The vast bulk of drugs are coming through the legal ports of entry...yes, we catch more there too, but only a very small part of what gets through.
Think about it, if I can reliably ship in huge amounts on a truck with a single driver, why would I use a couple hundred human mules to carry it through the desert?
If I also bother to dig long tunnels under the fences and send through vast amounts of drugs there in bulk, instead of trying to send human mules through the desert, why would I do so if its so easy to send it where there aren't fences??
How do we know that ? The only data I've seen is based on how much is seized. Everything else is analysis or extrapolation. We have no way of knowing how much gets through. What % comes through between POEs.
A barrier is to stop people, not just drugs.
Are you assuming we seize the same % at the POEs as we seize in between ?
Apply your Martian brain to the question, rather than blindly repeating a talking point you can't substantiate.
Get the 18 wheeler half loaded with refer out your head. That image is 1980’s, the times have changed.