Confiscated smuggler's boats are auctioned off all the time. What are you talking about?
Anybody trying to steal any mines will wind up dead. Like they'll just be out there where anyone can just stroll up and pick them up. You're being ridiculous.
And you're going to magically dig up the $70 billion without a peep of protest from the Democrats, or the states that receive that money.
Confiscated smuggler's boats are auctioned off all the time. What are you talking about?
Yup, they're auctioned all the time. But those boats are a tiny fraction of the total number used in smuggling. The Coast Guard thinks that they stop as many as one in ten--and that includes the ones who get into trouble and send a distress call, and those are a sizable minority of their total seizure count. And more vessels engaged in the smuggling trade would get more drugs AND illegals through Coast Guard patrols.
Anybody trying to steal any mines will wind up dead.
Please explain why they would end up dead. Like I said, we seem to value the lives of our combat engineers, so US mines don't have the array of antitampering devices that other countries (like China) use--and the instructions for handling, placing, arming, disarming, and removing those mines are readily available from Uncle.
Like they'll just be out there where anyone can just stroll up and pick them up.
That's how landmines are used. They're buried in the ground (and not very deeply) and just left there.
Mr. Charles had a habit of stealing US landmines in Vietnam. He was quite successful at it, too. Heck, he stole them from US firebase defense perimeters. I don't think you can put enough firebases on the US-Mexican border to ensure that every mine is within small arms range, unless you want to go back to the idea of having a few hundred thousand troops on post at any one moment.