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.
You are missing my key point: Pull the troops out of the middle east. Pull the assets back home. Put them to use in Mexico.
If the Mexicans cannot take care of the problem, we should do the job ourselves. At the same time, use the “police state” BS that the government seems to want to use on the trafficking.
Honestly, going after the end user is a stupid ploy. That is akin to going after every German Soldier without the strategic bombing to cut the logistics.
Cut the supply. Drive the prices up. Wreck the quality.
Save us BILLIONS in days. The end user problem will take care of itself.