Just think about the logistics of that, from the standpoint of a drug smuggler. You've got a pack of scruffy farm workers who are crossing the border to find jobs that pay $2.50 an hour... are you seriously going to trust these people to each carry a $15,000 brick of cocaine, or even a $1,000 kilo of marijuana? Why would you ever expect to see them again on the other side of the border? And why would you even bother? It's not remotely difficult to smuggle drugs across the border; why would you dragoon a bunch of amateurs to do it for you?
Now think about it from the illegal's standpoint. If you get caught in the US illegally, at the very worst you get a free ride back to Mexico. If you get caught on the Mexican side of the border, nothing happens at all. But get caught on either side of the border with a kilo of coke, and you go to serious prison for a serious amount of time. Why would you risk that?
I think what Brewer meant to say is that most coyotes are also drug runners, and that I will believe. I'll even believe that most groups of border crossers contain a drug mule or two using the illegals as cover. But the notion that half of all illegals are smuggling a dime bag in their socks or whatever, no, that's "Guam tipping over"-level stupidity.
Yup. And her statement is absolutely true and correct. The drug cartels are using the illegal alien traffic to move their drugs. Every steenking illegal alien that comes across the border helps the drug cartels move their stuff.
Obama, the Democraps and RINOs like John McCain and his little dog Grahanesty are all helping the drug traffickers ply their illicit trade on the backs of the diseased illegal alien invasion.
Secure our borders!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
She should have used the word ‘many’ as opposed to most.
The cartels control the smuggling corridors. When they need to move a load, they will use the easiest method. Illegals are one of the easiest. And none of them are going to try to take off with their cargo. There are two reasons for this. One is that the guards have full auto AK-47s or M-16s. That is also the reason that DHS doesn’t intercept those attempts. Second, the illegals have no idea where they are, and no other way to get where they are going. Getting left in the desert to die doesn’t sound like a pleasant way to die, does it?
So no, what Brewer said isn’t ‘Guam tipping over’ type stupidity. Until last year, the Feds wouldn’t prosecute anyone bringing in under 500 pounds of pot. And since a person can’t carry 500 pounds of anything, how many illegals were prosecuted for it? None. The rules have changed some, but most will never see the inside of a courtroom because of ‘budgetary constraints’.
How do I know all this? I live here in southern AZ. To paraphrase Tina Fey’s piss-poor attempt at lampooning Sarah Palin, “I can see Mexico from my front yard.” And the view isn’t pretty, and getting worse.