“If we had Chinese troops lined up at our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, you damn well know you would do something about it. This is a war. Act like it. Do something.” These were the words of a distraught US mother who lost both of her sons to fentanyl overdoses from drugs trafficked across the southern border. As much focus is placed on the war in Ukraine, the real war we are fighting daily is against cartels trafficking drugs that are responsible for more death of Americans aged 18-45 than any other cause. This mother is right. We are at war and they are killing us.
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The war on drugs is an abject failure. The Government has been failing the American people for 40 years on that front, which is an extension of failing children in education.
Her son's were doing drugs. Is the objective "clean, pure" marajuana, coke, heroin, ketamine, meth, etc.? The war on drugs just created an "acceptable" baseline, a talking point.
I know fentanyl is different, on the first taste you either die or are permanently addicted. I don't have the answer, but zero fentanyl is like zero COVID, not achievable. I do know controlling the Southern border will not eliminate fentanyl.
Is some amount of fentanyl acceptable?
Is some amount of illegal aliens accessible?
I don't think we should conflate the two. The reason to control immigration is wholly different, and achievable, from the reason to control imports.
I am subscribed. Biden is a cold blooded SOB.