"The states say they don't have the money and manpower."
They always say that. I'll bet I could go to every state, look at their budget, and find the money immediately. Heck, we could just stop putting potheads in jail and get the money from the prison budget. Just lock up the bigtime dealers.
Not for busting illegals, anyway. Now if you're a citizen serf, that's another story. If one of us steps out of line, you better believe they've got the "money and manpower" to deal with them.
The way things are going, I'm nearly to the point of believing citizenship is for suckers.
As you may be aware, drug lords effectively control all the areas where Mexico adjoins the United States and facilitate the peasant invasion in order to dilute our law enforcement efforts where they ship their products. If the high profit incentive from the drug trade were removed the cartels would be weakened and far less influential (corruptive) to government representatives on both sides of the border.