Okay, why not the whole southern border first? I’m not being racist, but realistic. There’s far more violence in the south than the north.

Although, I am biased on this issue with Cuban Nationals. They came from an island surrounded by water in extremely harsh conditions. Cuban travel for all citizens should be lifted immediately.

Cuban and American economic gains could benefit a great deal. We’ve had a trade embargo with them for almost half a century. Are they violent towards us? Are we at war with them? Or did someone’s feelings get hurt and this is their punishment…

If we have a law, either enforce it or get rid of it.

I personally see the investment of deporting all illegals based on the amount spent on them at the tax-payer’s expense rather than the amount this country gains from them, as the right thing to do.

This country at the very least should recommend treatment in the court systems before jails/prisons if you are found breaking the law for a petty drug crime.

I agree with you though, hard drug use for the majority of people who use them, have a problem, destroy their lives, and usually nearly everyone in connection with them sees the dark side of addiction.

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Once denied healthcare for not having proof of being an American citizen, you are turned away. I know that’s harsh, but it would stop the downward spiral.

We don’t need a National ID Card.

I have mixed feelings on the U.S. and Mexico’s “War on Drugs”, but the violence in Mexico has increased despite what (our) tax dollars, military equipment and personnel we have gifted Mexico, and there is more violence in our border towns.

Wikipedia: Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics that flow into the United States.

Although, if we decriminalize marijuana, free-up our prisons of non-violent offenders, legalize medicinal use, and protect the doctor’s decision to prescribe it without fear of retribution. Marijuana would have little value on the black market.

The Government could tax it, it would be free to grow, and you couldn’t sell it. Growers could qualify for tax credits if they are caregivers to a patient needing his service. Insurance companies can’t deny coverage. Which in turn would create more bureaucracy.

The street violence for marijuana sales would plummet. Robberies would probably increase seeing how they are growing marijuana. Harder drugs would be sky rocket in price, there’d be greater law enforcement concentrated on them, but if they only concentrated on the dealers, and not the users I think the world could quite possibly be a bit more peaceful.

Mexican drug cartels pushing cocaine should be targets.

This country has lost billions in tax revenue and will continue to do so, and that’s not okay!! In turn, our ratesgo up. Illegal immigrants drag our hospitals down financially, they do cheaper labor compared to Americans for under-the-table wages, send “untaxed” money back to their native country. The person who employed them should face a heavy fine and business license suspension, like a DUI consequence. I’m not blaming Mexico directly, but Canadians don’t seem to be barging into our country, using our country’s well-mannered humanitarian effort (at our cost) when they use our services.

I think it’s wrong. Clearly the beginning paragraph seems unappoligetic and wrong, but “How many President’s have given amnesty to millions”? Historically, California has been a target. Reported by Dateline: December, 2004 Illegal Immigration Costs California Over Ten Billion Annually.

California’s already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers’ money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.

July 10, 2009, LATimes, To save money, activists may try to cut aid for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.

If we have laws we don’t enforce, they shouldn’t be laws.

Montana has instances where the illegals take skilled construction employment away from us..

Washington needs to step it up!!

E-Verification–MUST–become a permanent law, not just subject to an employer’s whim? The public who savor their jobs not being appropriated by foreign workers–AS HAPPENED IN EUROPE–should demand E-Verify in every industry, every business with heavy penalties for those who rebuke the law including mandatory jail sentences. EUROPE over several decades has also been overwhelmed by legal and illegal immigrants, thats why health care across the Atlantic has become compromised? E-Verify could be easily expanded for many other uses in the US, including admittance to health care, drivers licenses, government subsidies that would include education and home mortgages?

But we must remain vigilant as the status quo has in their influence a group of stalwart politicians. They have secretly conspired to table E-Verify in the past and will no doubt try to eradicate it’s accessibility in the future. Hundreds of pariah businesses are devoid of a conscious towards the American working man or woman. They have corrupted the lawmakers in Washington, with special interest money and extravagant favors. They have already indoctrinated some of our previously honest leaders with favors and in return we have seen the weakening of 287 G police training apprehension of illegal immigrants. Already President Obama has listened to Sen.Harry Reid D-NV, California’s own Nancy Pelosi and Napolitano who have weakened other enforcement laws. NO! Innocent children of illegal immigrants who were transplanted by their parents here are not to blame. Our borders have remained like sieves, thanks to some of the lawmakers whom we voted for over the years. Legislators are ultimately culpable as they make the decisions, as by inheritance of each administration who resides in the White House?

Money was wasted on building the single length border fence instead of Rep.Duncan Hunters planned two-tier barrier as in San Diego? ICE raids have been reduced and even the No-match-rescinded. More money is wasted overturning enforcement laws, instead of using the full force of these procedures in combating the illegal immigrant invasion. IF YOU HAVE SOME SOLID KNOWLEDGE OF ILLEGAL WORKERS, CONTACT ICE! ADDRESS YOUR POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 NO MORE COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM! IT IS NOT IN THE COUNTRIES INTEREST. USE AMENDMENTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS WITH THE 1986 IMMIGRATION LAWS ALREADY ENACTED. Learn facts not rhetoric or lies at NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCH & CAPSWEB.

“if the USA were to “LEAD” in the puerile (sp) notion of legalizing drugs”

“PUERILE” notion…?

In your first sentence you show your hatred and lack of objectivity…

“All thats missing from your scenario Mr. Swemson are unicorns crapping rainbows.”

You’re so sure that you’re right, you can’t even listen to a different idea without twisting EVERYTHING I say, and then pronounce YOUR opinions as if they were FACTS.

EXAMPLE:

““We get rid of the crime, and with it a huge % of the violence”
I have allready show that the opposite is true. Ending Prohibition did NOT stop criminals from continuing their violence. They just moved onto other enterprises ”

You haven’t shown ANYTHING.. all you did was disagree with me, and your OPINION, as shown immediately above, is so absurd as to be pathetic.

“Ending Prohibition did NOT stop criminals from continuing their violence.”

It sure as hell stopped the violence associated with illegal booze… And yet you try to imply that I think that legalizing drugs will cause the elimination of ALL crime…

” They just moved onto other enterprises and kept the killing going.”

Yeah right… as if there was never any crime before prohibition….

That’s as stupid as Carter, who, looking at the sign “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” said that the right wanted to bury Obama himself.

You don’t offer ONE opinion based on facts…

Your solutions have been tried for years, and have NEVER worked, and some of them are so absurd that no reasonable person would ever agree to it…

Harsh penalties ?

“Local dealers, 5 years hard labor first offense. Life after second. Drug trafficking , first offense, life no parole.”

Like America is really going to support the idea of putting a college kid selling dime bags away for 5 years on a first bust or life on a second… Your idea would require the creation of hundreds of thousands of new prisons beds….. Only a very small % of drug criminals ever get caught, and we already have 1 adult out of every hundred in America.

So if all you can do is spout stupid and failed ideas, twist the facts to suit your OPINIONS, and insult those who disagree with you, then why don’t you just shut up. You have proven that you have nothing to add to the debate, and that you’re not even worth talking to….

As Groucho said: “Go, and never darken my towels again”