[BigSkyFreeper]

Of course it isn't an emerging problem. I should know, I live in Montana about 4 miles from the Canadian border, next to a back road that leads into Canada. Before the BP put motion sensors along the borderline, illegal drug shipments were as common as farm tractors coming and going across the border. Sometimes those drugs were packed inside farm equipment. This was going on for more than a decade in the 1970's and 1980's. Farm equipment coming and going across the border is pretty common, as alot of farmers on this side of the border have sections of land in Canada which they farm.

I'm not advocating we shut down our borders because of this "emergine problem", I'm saying we as a country should be pooling our resources more wisely to start clamping down on what could eventually be another 9/11.

The War On Drugs has been a lost cause from the word "go", why Democrats feel that if they throw money on the problem, it will just go away, just boggles my mind, because thats the mentality of politicians, particularly Democrats these days.

Every so often there's an article I read in the Billings Gazette of someone stopped at the border because they were caught with marijuana or some other illegal drug in their possession, then they get commuted back to Canada to wait in line to face charges. Meanwhile that criminal just slips out of the system and goes back to what he/she was doing before.

The judicial system in this country and in Canada are both a farce, the War On Drugs is a scam and a failure, it's time to straighten out the judicial system in this country and legalize marijuana to the point it's out of the control of the dealers and smugglers and into the control of the government and manufacturers. This is the only way the border problem will be solved.

[Drammach]

You're confirming everything I have thought about the problem.

I too, have seen this go on for decades.
Too bad we're not running the country.. ;o)

[bc2]

I live along the Canadian border in New York, and I used to live on Lake Erie when I lived in Pennsylvania, so I can share similar stories of drug smuggling. I've seen fishing boats pull right up to the beach, guys walk to the park with backpacks full of drugs and return with boxes of cigarettes.

I would say that it is equal parts democrat and republican who think that we can just pour more money into the WOD and expect different results than we've been seeing for years.