I respectfully disagree with your premise. If one little city of 30,000 is sending out a fully staffed paramedic ambulance seven times a night on a weekend, and twice a night every weekday night at $500 (average) a whack, extrapolate that across a region, a state, or the entire country.
Add into that the cost of larceny, burglary, and theft. Add in the Emergency room costs.
I am not making an emotional argument at all. I am making an economic argument. The cost of the crap is going to add to the bankruptcy of our medical services.
Now, add in the gun violence. After suicide, I have to believe that most gun deaths are related to rugs.
ISIL is scary. But it is taking your attention away from a much larger problem.
We should be using those military assets to destroy the drug trade. We should make some ultimatatums to Mexico. We should kill the cartel leaders. We should stop doing business with Mexican banks.
The border crap is not about illegal aliens. Those people are a drop in the bucket when compared to the cost of dealing with the heroin trade in the US. Stopping it at the source will kill the root cause—cheap and readily available drugs.
I’m all for fortifying the border; as long as we refuse to do so we should accept that we have surrendered in the “war on drugs”. We do pay a high price by allowing the uninterrupted flow of drugs in this country; we simply don’t have the money to fight this war south of the border, and our government is increasingly the same leftists as those ruling the drug states to our south.