get it to x wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:55 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:43 am
get it to x wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:25 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:08 am
Want to get truly serious about this scourge?
There would be enormous support for way, way more treatment capabilities.
Put the executives of Pharma co's who not just recklessly, but fraudulently, pushed opioids into jail. Shut down those companies.
Invest much more heavily into illegal drug interdiction through ports of entry, cargo, post etc.
Continue to invest in technology to interdict cross border drug traffic.
Stop with the demonization of poor people seeking a better life in America, that's an ugly distraction from real issues.
Frankly, though, I don't think we ever really break this sort of thing, including the next addiction scourge, until we decriminalize usage, get this out of the shadows pushed by criminals seeking extraordinary ROI.
Plenty of fentanyl comes over the border, as does meth, cocaine and heroin. But when one migrant kid dies, whose parents put through an arduous journey and didn't get medical care until it was too late, it's held up as an example of cruel border custody issues. As for "not wanting poor people seeking a better life in America", I'm for as many as we need that apply through legal channels. I'm happy to treat guest workers just like I'd treat house guests.
On the first warm night this spring go to bed with all of your doors and windows open. You might not get the guests you would normally invite.
Again, the vast majority of fentanyl is not coming through gaps in the 'wall'. It's coming through legal ports of entry and common post.
Stop with this.
Yes, drugs are coming across the southern border, indeed all sorts of ways. Over, under, however. The profit incentive is huge.
I wrote a few weeks ago about the comments of a former Coast Guard drug enforcement officer who said that our land border is the least of our problems. Super easy to come in by boat. He thinks the wall is a huge waste, invest in technology.
I agree that hyperbolic name calling can come from the left. Not actually helpful.
Glad to hear you'll welcome folks, seeking safety and freedom and a chance for a better economic life. Me too.
People are coming to legal ports of entry, presenting themselves...legally... for asylum.
And our response is to withdraw humanitarian support for the countries they're fleeing.
Build a wall.
It would be easier to change the asylum laws. You do admit most of these poor people are economic migrants and not asylum seekers in the legal sense of the word, don't you?
And to add, very few non "elites" have the privilege of their own walls.
I don't think your assertion that most of these are economic migrants (not safety) is accurate. Undoubtedly some are fleeing destitution, skyrocketing inflation, food shortages, no medical supplies, etc. Yup, undoubtedly.
But coupled with such destitution is fear of the drug gangs with the breakdown of society. Families with their kids forced to work for the gangs, moms and daughters raped, death threats, etc.
This is much more than 'economic migration', the notion as if it's an entirely voluntary sort of thing versus existential.
Not sure what your final sentence means. Are you talking about the terror these people are fleeing from, given they aren't 'elite' and don't have 'walls' to protect them?
Or are you saying that non-elites in America don't have 'walls' to protect them? I'd agree with either statement, I just don't see the connection.
Unless you are saying, as nativists have said in
every wave of migration to our country throughout our history, these people are dangerous and should be feared.
They aren't us.
They're the Other.
That's what Trump and the hard right nativist wing of American populism have been saying, again and again and again.
Be afraid. Very afraid.
And I'm the 'strong man' who will protect you.