Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
Quicker way to remove drug trafficking and illegal immigration is to cut off the end users... drug users and businesses respectively.

Fine the businesses/ seize their assets. This will add a couple of million to get rid of the deficit. The larger impact would be there would be less of an attraction for illegal immigrants as the available job market would shrink, stage two of helping the money drain would be towards government funds that go on illegal immigrants... everything from stopping them, sending them back and looking after them... less people means less costs.
You don't get it, do you Pape? Every Mexican gang that wants to come across the border, raping and pillaging the Southwest, then flee back under a cover of amnesty will be free to. And our Middle Eastern friends? Mexico lets them in, then they take the scenic route to LA, up the coast.

And what's the principal Washington is standing on to open the border to Mexico? Cheap labor and more votes.