USA Border: Greater Protection = Greater Corruption

With the increase in Border Patrol Guards, Police and National Guardsmen along the southern border of the United States of America, Mexican Smugglers of all kinds are increasing the incidents of bribery in order to maintain "business as usual."



Who will police the Police? The rampant influence of the Mexican Drug Lords and other smugglers along the borders should be treated as acts of war. The number of Agents along the borders that take bribes is out of control and the costs of these internal investigations are rising every day.

What happened to the "War on Drugs"?
Drug Lords should be considered enemy combatants and those that serve them their Soldiers. Those that serve them who are acting in an official Law Enforcement capacity should be charged as Traitors and all proper penalties should be applied. No 'backroom negotiations' should be allowed between Prosecution and Defense either, bring them to Court on ALL charges and then, after they are convicted, hang them high at the border.

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How about this, legalize. Actually I dont have time to go into the debate now, but regulate and legalize, you will crush so many cartels and gangs too actually.

I agree. Legalizing it takes all the money away from the gangs, cartels and dangerously violent people. If it's legalized it can be taxed, monitored, controlled and studied.

I don't think the US is ready for legalization, esp. for anything harder than marijuana. But this problem has enormous potential to turn into a major issue. The corruption and murder rampant in Mexico that is related to the drug trade could spread over to this side of the border.

It's one thing to refuse a bribe, quite another when the lives of an agent and his family are threatened.

Corruption and murder are related to the illegal drug trade. If the drug trade was regulated, say as alcohol is, gangs and cartels would not be fighting over drug smuggling routes. That should end most of the violence both in the U.S. and in Mexico. However this may cause the price of smuggling humans to skyrocket as these groups would still be looking for an income.

[edit on 3-11-2006 by that1prsn]

No need to regulate. Just legalize marijuana. This alone will deny billions of dollars to criminal organizations large and small. The government does not need to be in the marijuana business. Those who want it will grow it and the criminal organizations will dry up and disappear.

A lack of regulation will play into the hands of prohibitionists. Irresponsible people will continue to sell to minors. Not that irresponsible people wont sell to minors with regulation but the slighty more responsible people will not. Controls on quality will not be observed. Criminal organizations already have an infistructure and will continue to control the trade. Non-criminal entities will be bullied out by the violent groups who still want to secure their profits. And if only marijuana was made legal, there is still an abundant illegal drug trade in operation. To end the crime, all drugs would need to be regulated.