Okay, I can't find the link now, but earlier I was researching about the Trump administration's deal with Guatemala to accept refugees from Honduras and El Salvador and found an article reporting that a Judge there had blocked the deal.
Apparently it will require approval from their congress which is in recess for the summer. Until then, the flow will continue unabated, and likely long after.
The Northern triangle, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have been hell holes for a long time. They are a narrow section of path on drug route to the United States. Shutting down our border will help curb that flow and force the cartels to look elsewhere. That will still spell disaster for the innocent people in those countries. The starving rats will look to strip bare those regions before heading to new pastures.
What is really needed is a solution to America's drug problem. You might say that there is no Constitutional authority for drug enforcement. There is Constitutional authority for control of imports though, and none of these drugs are native to the United States. Even the "native" marijuana is crap. The stronger weed is all hybrid from plants grown in Mexico and Central America, but the plant is native to Central Asia. Marijuana became illegal in the United States thanks to an international agreement in 1925 regarding the trade of Indian hemp. This led to the Marihuana tax act in 1937.
But, Barry Soetoro needs his regular fix of coke, so there.
What is the answer to our drug problem? Saudi Arabia, China and Indonesia execute smugglers and often users. Maybe we should consider placing the drug mules we catch coming over the border in front of a firing wall.
At any rate, our drug users fuel the problems the poor people in Central America are enduring. Sticking those poor people who flee in liberal bastions is not fair, they are still stuck in the presence of the problem they are trying to get away from.
Fix the problems here so they can have a better life there, or start a trade program where we send the families of people convicted of drug crimes to El Salvador while keeping any who are hard working migrants here. That would also help Mexico since the drug route would stay south.
To quote the late Bob Grant: It's sick and getting sicker!
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