Does America's drug habit fuel illegal immigration?

Question

What is your view?
Is our concern of losing jobs to illegal immigrants blinding us to the real problem?

Regarding the news link (below), Mexican drug cartels are now attacking the Mexican
Military.
The cartels would not do this unless there was a lot of money at stake.
And American drug addicts are paying that money.

Perhaps the so-called “War on Drugs” should be re-thought and re-packaged as part of the war on terror.
My best analysis is this: if our government does not act quickly to stop illegal immigration, Americans will witness a new wave of drug-fueled terror in our streets.

Please note that this is not a diatribe against Mexicans who come here legally to work or those seeking to become citizens.
I am not one of those “English-only” xenophobic people who don’t want anyone in our country but Americans. Immigrants made this country great and I welcome the good citizens from south-of-the-border as long as they abide by our laws.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_army_vs_drugs

Answer 1

lets begin...... drugs and immigration? ok you fell and bumped your head. there is no way thatthe drug cartels in mexico are in anyway linked to these immigrants. Do I think that the drug cartells and the illicit drug use in this country is at an all time high... yes. These border-jumpers are comming here for work, they are comming here for a better life than they can have in Mexico, looking back in history i think thats how ALMOST everybody got here is to make a better way of life for their future generations. Now you tell me how after 911 the government produced commercials saying that when you buy illegal drugs you are contributing to terrorrist, now they are saying that buying illegal drugs is affecting theimmigration of people from Mexico? Come on.....Someone look through the smoke screen here. Now as far as you saying the ""English-only" xenophobic people" I have a problem with that thought, you cant expect a country as large as the USA to change their whole way of speaking because 1/100th of the populationis or is going to be foreign speaking. Speak English be AMERICAN not MEXICAN-AMERICAN, you want to be here BE HERE not in both places, and come here the right way. You are right this country comes from many other countries but everyone wants to be some type of other nationality but AMERICAN, you have mexican-AMERICANS, african-AMERICANS(which a portion of those are not even of african decent), and those are just a few. Everyone wants to add the AMERICAN, i say drop the first part and be JUST AMERICAN.

Answer 2

Illegal drug trade has NOTHING to do with the illegal immigration problem. There would be no major drug trade problem if the majority of those drugs were legalized and controlled, like alcohol and tobacco. It is the fact that they are illegal that causes the price to skyrocket to where the money is attractive to the drug cartels. If grass and cocaine were as cheap or cheaper than cigarettes, how long would it take for the drug cartels to go bankrupt? Case in point, look at how many 'gangsters' and politicians became rich during Prohibition. Prices of booze soared, and with it came organized crime to reap the profits. The exact same thing is going on now with drugs.

As for illegal immigration, the immigration problem is fueled by Corporate America GREED. Rich white fat cats, ( I am white and fat, but not rich.) sitting behind their boardroom desks, are more than willing to hire an illegal alien at half the minimum wage with no benefits, and lay off the American worker who is only making minimum wage, to save a buck. Case in point Walmart and their illegal immigrant cleaning service. They were shocked, simply shocked to find out that a company who quoted half the price of any other would have hired illegal immigrants to do the work. How did someone that stupid become a CEO or Walmart?

Or they will move a factory to Mexico and pay less per day than they paid per hour in the US plant for labor. But did the price of the car go down any? NO, and yet they laid off the worker who could afford to buy the car and hired a worker who will never afford a car. And now they sit back and wonder why they are in trouble with sales.

They do all this to save a buck and make their obscene salaries, while the middle class, which is the engine that makes the economy run, shrinks ever smaller. We are headed to a point where the economy will implode, and then we will find out what living in a third world nation is like.

Answer 3

Watch the movie Mary Full of Grace, many women and children are used as mules to bring in drugs. The Polleros or illegal immigrant traffickers are one of the many by product businesses aided by the drug dealers. Drugs are rife in America way before immigration was officially recognized as a problem.

Answer 4

Not really, it is the oppressive regime in Mexico that drive Mexicans to the United States. If you spent a day in Mexico you would realize how miserable it is. That is why we come to the United States undocumented because we want the freedom! We deserve the freedom. Why should anyone have to live with the filth and disease of a third world country when they can simply pass over to the richest country in the world and have a MUCH better life!

Answer 5

Yes, if this country would take the War on Drugs seriously the illegal immigration issue would no longer be a concern

Answer 6

we could deal a killing blow to the drug cartels and to drug dealers all over this country, it's called legalization. Not everything just Cannabis. It's used in the form that God gave it to us in, no refinements, no additives. when you take that off the black market it will be better controlled by store owners and fuel our tax base. don't and it will stay in our schools and continue to line the pockets of criminals while making otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals as well. Using a gift from our creator is not a crime. Although, according to the Holy Bible, we should eat it not smoke it.

Answer 7

YOU GOT IT, Do you know how much drugs this country needs to survive, and a little tip, majority think that is only the gettho people, I am a cleaning person and I go to so many wealthy familys out there, they stay on coke 24-7.

Answer 8

Very intelligent question. If demand were curbed, so would the drug cartels selling these drugs to Americans. It sounds like it is in our hands (and no, I don't personally use drugs).

Answer 9

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. America love it or leave it. Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Leave it Now. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 10

Nice question. I'd have to do some research before I can comment on that.