Posted on 08/03/2017 7:45:07 AM PDT by mandaladon
OAN Newsroom
The Trump administration is allowing customs officers to screen all cargo trucks coming into the U.S. in an effort to crack down on Mexican drug cartels.
Under the Obama administration agents would only conduct random inspections allowing cartels to run their concealed loads through the border, but border security forces will now use technology to screen every cargo truck.
According to the Department of Transportation about 471,000 trucks pass through the U.S.-Mexico border on a monthly basis.
Officials say cartels often use other routes to transport drugs, but their preferred method is driving through a port of entry.
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OK ... so this stops one route, forces the bastards to try other more difficult methods. GOOD!
I don’t think two years is enough, that guy in Portland had been deported over a dozen times. There definitely needs to be some sort of three strikes you’re out deportation law.
A minimum of 5yrs room and board is a more generous offer to mule refugees. Our well known hospitality is at stake here.
Have you ever heard of a firing squad? I say use this for the second offense. Hell how about the first offense. Maybe they will be more scared of US than the Cartel that way.
US citizens in the US are protected by the US Constitution. No way should that change under any circumstances. Drugs or not. There should be no war on drugs in the first place because it is wrecking the Constitution. You propose to further shred the Constitution and limit its protections?
I tend to agree with you on what should happen to them, if they chose a second attempt. At that point, they should be treated as enemy combatants/spies/subversives, as the product they’re transporting is destroying this country.
I was trying to explore my softer side, with my original post, but I realize that when dealing with this problem and the people that make it happen, being soft isn’t allowed.
It is my feeling that we should put a mothballed ship 50 miles out in the Gulf as a prison with no prison guards. Put chum in the water to attract sharks. If they want to try and swim to shore, go for it. If any non-authorized boats are within 10 miles of the ship they will be shot out of the water.
Use the proceeds of the truck sales to buy fishing poles if they want to eat.
“The mule would be killed..................”
and then eaten. Savages.
I love it. Drain the swamp of corruption.
I thought of a slightly less brutal approach that would have the same impact.
It involves having a concrete pad and incinerator adjacent to all of the southern border crossings.
If you’re busted heading north with a load of drugs, you’re immediately arrested, your rig is confiscated, the illicit cargo are thrown into the incinerator, and your rig is set out on the concrete pad, doused in diesel fuel, and burned down to the pavement.
And then the perp is frog marched to the mexican side, after biometric ID, and is told in no uncertain terms to never again set foot on US soil under penalty of death.
Oh, and all of this would be within eyeshot of the border crossings, with signs both in english and spanish explaining what exactly is happening.
Absolutely not. And what Sessions is doing with Asset Forfeiture makes me cringe. The overuse us SWAT teams to enforce drug laws is out of control. And, I used to be someone that executed those types of search warrants. But.....
My proposition is that the drug mules shouldn’t get any protections, at all, unless they are American citizens. If they are citizens, they should be dealt with harshly. But, the non-citizens shouldn’t get anything. A simple, street level test, at the border station or elsewhere is conducted. Once the contraband tests positive, it’s is immediately taken and destroyed. Vehicles seized, auctioned or sold for scrap metal. Biometrics taken of the individual(s) and they are sent back home, asap. No need to wasted taxpayer dollars on processing, storing, testing, detaining, bringing to trial, incarcerating someone that shouldn’t be afforded those protections in the first place.
Without a doubt, one of the best movies, EVER, on the drug trade is, Traffic(2000). One scene, a snitch describes how the Cartels send numerous trucks to the border stations. Knowing that when one of them gets caught, the others will drive right thru, as the CPB doesn’t have the manpower, because everyone will swarm to the truck that just got stopped. Why?
Catch the guy.
Take his sh*t.
Take his vehicle.
Send him home.
If he comes back again, immediately to jail/prison, kind of like a probation violation.
Israeli’s have been doing it for years. They either blow them up or fill them with water.
Agreed.
The Cartel will deal with him/her accordingly.
Less manpower used to deal with the case.
But, why not sell the rig(if it’s in decent shape) to a trucker or scrap metal yard? Make a little money off of it. Maybe enough to pay the electric bill at the crossing.
they are bringing in hundreds of tons through major ports in large cargo ships protected by our government.
Thanks. You had me worried. We are in complete agreement. But I am still against drugs being illegal.
I can’t believe that no one has suggested...
If the cartels are fuming, perhaps we can next get them to completely fumigate each other. ;-)
Save taxpayers some $$$. Shoot them if they return .
Knowing the Cartels, they won’t return...........ever..............
Again, having dealt with the law enforcement aspects of it previously, I’m kind of torn about that. As I age and see our tax money going down the drain for nothing, I start to lean over to your side. But, I think with legalization, society as a whole has to take the theory of “accountability and responsibility” much more serious. And if that means someone dies as a result of their stupid decisions, so be it.
A close friend works in law enforcement, still, and he was telling me that he was able to secure a grant for NarCan, for all the officers. I shrugged my shoulders and asked: why should the police and taxpayers be responsible for someone making a shitty decision. In this day and age, it isn’t like anyone doesn’t know how bad heroin and fentanyl are. If someone wants to roll the dice with that stuff, why should you, me or anyone else pay the freight for them to get a pass. My argument, whether right or wrong, can go further. Why should some gangbanger, who’s out there getting into shootouts, be able to wasted $100s of thousands of taxpayer dollars for his/her treatment at the ER, OR, etc? When a meth-head, blows himself up in a lab, why should you and I have to foot their medical bills, which could easily go over $200k?
But, in this day and age, the Liberals have taught generations, that nothing is their fault and that someone will always be there to clean up your mess. When that way of thinking changes, I’m with you all day long about legalization.
“accountability and responsibility”. Right on!
What people want is freedom. Freedom to do as they wish with freedom from the consequences of doing as they wish.
Or private actions paid for at societal cost.
Which becomes societal restrictions on private actions because the societal costs become to high.
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