[blam]

"It took the might of WESTERN British Empire to cut that nonsense off."

Yup, the Brits stationed the most powerful fleet in the world off the African coast to stop slavery.

[Kay Soze]

No they had no need to position their fleet.

We as the single most powerful and technologically advanced nation the planet has yet seen cannot patrol a much smaller area (Mexican border) with any degree of success.

More efficient was to go to the source- the desire for slavery and attack it there.