Do you think its time to send Military to the Mexico border? Border drug wars threaten U.S. ?

Question

Do we need the military and a big 80 foot deep and 100 feet high fence? This is dangerous and they do means us harm ."They've got weapons, high-tech radios, computers, cell phones, Global Positioning Systems, spotters, and can react faster than we are able to," Mr. Moran said. "And they have no hesitancy to attack the agents on the line, with anything from assault rifles and improvised Molotov cocktails to rocks, concrete slabs and bottles. There are so many agent 'rockings' that few are even reported anymore. If we wrote them all up, that's all we would be doing."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigative arm of Homeland Security, said in a report this year that the drug gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless against rivals, and also were targeting federal, state and local police. ICE said violence on the border has been rising dramatically over the past three years in what it called "an unprecedented surge."

During a January raid on a gang operation in Laredo, Texas, an ICE-led task force of federal agents seized two completed improvised explosive devices, materials for making 33 more devices, 300 primers, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, five grenades, nine pipes with end caps, 26 grenade triggers (14 with fuses and primers attached), 31 grenade spoons, 40 grenade pins, 19 black powder casings, a silencer and cash.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/03/mexican-drug-wars-threaten-us/?page=2

Answer 1

We have to.

Answer 2

Absolutely! We need to bring our people home from Iraq to fight the real war here.

Answer 3

If the US decriminalized marijuana like the civilized nation it pretends to be, the drug wars would probably cease. They've got a marijuana SEED seller, Mark Emery as the number one most wanted drug dealer in the US... I don't wonder the drug runners have guns... how many of them are really "drug" runners? They lied to you about oil... why not drugs?

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Yoda

Suffering leads to doing whatever the administration tells you you should do.

Answer 4

yep

Answer 5

First Washington Times is the Moonie paper, about as accurate as the National Enquirer.

IF Americans, especially nice, middle and upper class white Americans, stopped using drugs, there wouldn't be a market and there wouldn't be a problem. It's all all about capitalism baby.

Answer 6

No. What would be the point? The only reason the drug people cross the border is because there is a high demand for drugs in the US. If there wasn't it wouldn't be worth their while. If you send the military to the border, the drug lords will find a different way to get the drugs into the country.

The cost of doing this would also be extremely high. Surely the money would be better spent curing the root problem, the problem of drug addiction within the US...? Then the drug lords would have no reason to cross the border or attack anyone, they would just move elsewhere.

Answer 7

I think if Mexico and Washington were serious on getting a handle on the cartels we'd already have troops on the border with Mexicos blessing. But we don't and probably won't, I wonder why.

Answer 8

Most assureadly. But the fact that we put our border patrol agents in prison for shooting mexican drug dealers on our own side of the border will make the people assigned to protect us unable to do their job. Military or border agents, when you get prosecuted for doing your job you have to wonder of it is worth doing. I say if they are here illegally and run or smuggle drugs shoot them on sight.

Answer 9

Abso-freaken-lutely. That would be a superb and legitimate use of our military-TO ACTUALLY PROTECT US ON OUR OWN SHORES AND FROM A REAL AND SUBSTANTIAL THREAT (DRUGS,SOCIAL SERVICES COSTLY AND OVER TAXED, HUGE PRISON POP. AND GANG VIOLENCE.

Answer 10

I totally agree....The immigration issue has been ignored for far too long and something needs to be done.  I think that if we handled it with more force and 'actually doing something' for a change the violence would go way down.  Anywhere there is weakness we will continue to have issues.  If they are fearless because of our lack of proper patrol they will continue to fight and things will never change.  If things get addressed the way they should local gang violence will eventually go down as well.

Answer 11

It's crazy that we are in Iraq, but our own country is under assault by foreign invasion and nobody seems to notice.

Answer 12

yes i hate the whole illegal immigrant thing

Answer 13

Well yah Id support that but we need to get them out of Iraq, then we can do that.  One thing at a time.

Answer 14

This is long past due, we should do whatever it takes to gain control of our border, Military, fences, minefields whatever it takes.