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To: AuntB
“The supply, however, can be stopped.”

Do you really believe that? How are we going to stop the supply from coming in? We've tried for decades to do that with very little luck. We've spent many billions of dollars and an awful lot of manpower over the years and illegal drugs are as easily available as ever and have actually gotten cheaper and more pure in many cases. I just don't think it's possible to stop the flow of drugs, not with so many billions of dollars to be made. If we ever get the fence built that will help a little bit, but they'll still get the drugs in. They'll grow more pot here and they'll figure out how to get the cocaine, meth and heroin in. According to government estimates they bring in less than a thousand tons of all those drugs combined which really isn't that much when you think about it in terms of the volume that amount would fill. It's a couple of dozen tractor trailer loads. They'll cut holes in the fence. They'll use boats, planes, tunnels, submarines, remote controlled aircraft, etc. They'll bribe people at the border. No matter how well we seal the border there will always be cracks. We'll be able to stop the people who just walk across the border to come here to work, but not highly motivated drug smugglers who make many thousands for each load that will likely sell for millions in this country. I think the notion that we are going to stop that is pure fantasy. There is just too much demand and too much money to be made meeting that demand.

41 posted on 03/07/2009 5:57:28 PM PST by SmallGovRepub
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To: SmallGovRepub; AuntB
When I said they bring less than a “thousand tons of all those drugs combined” I was referring to cocaine, meth and heroin, not marijuana. They bring several thousand tons of that in every year. I just wanted to make that clear because it wasn't clear in my post.
42 posted on 03/07/2009 6:00:53 PM PST by SmallGovRepub
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