Does America's drug habit fuel illegal immigration?

I think that there are a ton of things that fuel illegal immigration. Drugs are one of them, but don't forget about the automatic monthly checks that go out to poor U.S. citizens. We've all heard about the mothers who run across the border just to have their child here so he/she is a U.S. citizen, and therefore entitled to a check.

I believe that there is a lot that needs to be done to reform our immigration policies. There are way too many illegals coming into this country, and I for one am sick and tired of having money taken out of my paycheck every month to pay for their well being. I have absolutely no problem paying for the well-being of down-on-their-luck American citizens. I have been in a bad place a couple times and I am thankful that we have those programs in effect. But I don't agree for a moment with paying for illegals' upkeep.

I too am respectful of those who come here legally, and I too believe that America is and always has been a melting pot. But there are always more than a few bad apples coming from everywhere, and unfortunately the cartels are one such group. Hopefully our politicians in Washington can agree on just how huge a problem this is. I think that before we focus on saving the rest of the world (Dafur, etc.) we need to focus on saving ourselves first...

unlawful drug commerce has no longer something to do with the unlawful immigration subject. There may well be no significant drug commerce subject if the final public of those drugs have been legalized and controlled, like alcohol and tobacco. that's the reality that they are unlawful that motives the cost to skyrocket to the place the money is pleasing to the drug cartels. If grass and cocaine have been as much less high priced or extra low-priced than cigarettes, how long might it take for the drug cartels to pass bankrupt? working occasion, look into what share 'gangsters' and politicians became prosperous during Prohibition. expenditures of booze soared, and with it got here prepared crime to acquire the earnings. the precise comparable project is going on now with drugs. As for unlawful immigration, the immigration subject is fueled by way of company usa GREED. prosperous white fat cats, ( i'm white and fat, yet no longer prosperous.) sitting at the back of their boardroom desks, are better than prepared to hire an unlawful alien at a million/2 the minimum salary with out advantages, and lay off the american worker who's in simple terms making minimum salary, to maintain a greenback. working occasion Walmart and their unlawful immigrant cleansing service. They have been very much shocked, in simple terms very much shocked to be certain that a corporation who quoted a million/2 the cost of the different might have employed unlawful immigrants to do the artwork. How did somebody that stupid substitute right into a CEO or Walmart? Or they're going to circulate a production facility to Mexico and pay much less in line with day than they paid in line with hour interior the US plant for hard artwork. yet did the cost of the motor vehicle pass down any? NO, and yet they laid off the worker who ought to arise with the money for to purchase the motor vehicle and employed a worker who will on no account arise with the money for a vehicle. And now they sit down returned and sweetness why they are in difficulty with sales. They do all this to maintain a greenback and make their obscene salaries, mutually as the middle classification, it fairly is the engine that makes the financial equipment run, shrinks ever smaller. we are headed to a factor the place the financial equipment will implode, and then we are able to discover out what living in a third worldwide u . s . is like.

Watch the movie Mary Full of Grace, many women and children are used as mules to bring in drugs. The Polleros or illegal immigrant traffickers are one of the many by product businesses aided by the drug dealers. Drugs are rife in America way before immigration was officially recognized as a problem.

It might be a chicken and the egg type of dilemma. There was a good Frontline episode that focused on the meth trends in the U.S. The one signifcant moment where meth usage trended down was when the quality of the meth declined...this event correlated to when there was a major crackdown on illegals (in local labs) and their sources.

Illegals come in and create more labs, more labs make better quality meth, creating more American addicts, creating more funding back to the cartels, which encourage more illegals to come over.

Yes to your original question. The drug problem is one of the reasons.

I think very few of the illegal immagrants are displaced farmers. I've heard that the number of illegals in the US could be as high as 13,000,000, obviously they weren't all farmers.

No NAFTA is causing illegal Immigration forcing many peasant farmers out of a job because they can't compete with the Huge US agriculture industry undercutting their prices

Is this a drug company war?

either that or yankees are too hgh to do any work ;)

yes, you might say that.

Well stated- I commend you and could not have said it better. Thanks.