Since you know the statistics how much more drugs comes across the Mexican border than the Canadian border? How much comes in through the ports?
Cartel violence on the border:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpwd7/a-cartel-firefight-just-turned-a-us-mexico-border-town-into-a-war-zoneHuman smuggling and trafficking with "migrants" dead in San Antonio
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108280982/texas-migrant-deaths-human-smuggling-mexicoSan Antonio is a hub for cargo, including migrants
The city is just 150 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, on two busy corridors that reach across the U.S.: I-10 running between Los Angeles and Florida and I-35 running from the border crossing at Laredo up north to Minnesota.
"Once you get to San Antonio, you can go to Houston, you can go to Dallas, you can go further north into the Midwest. Of course, I-35 goes all the way up to Minnesota," Enriquez said. "So it is an important corridor for goods and unfortunately, also for smuggling and the trafficking of persons."
Human traffickers thrive in areas where their trucks can mix in with other vehicles. And in Laredo, thousands of trucks cross the border each day. Smugglers operate their own logistics chain — but with safehouses instead of warehouses.
"I mean, it is literally a needle in a haystack," Robinette said. "If you've ever been to that border, you just see the frequency and the volume of trucks that are traveling northbound through the different checkpoints. It's a miracle that [agents] come across what they do come across."
Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said in a tweet that the dead include 22 Mexicans, 7 Guatemalans and 2 Hondurans. The others have not yet been identified.
Migrants pay tens of thousands of dollars to smugglers
For migrants, the financial costs of crossing are steep.
"We've heard reports of tens of thousands of dollars, depending on where they're coming from and where their destination is," Enriquez said.
"We also have to keep in mind that many of these folks already have family in the United States, and they're simply either trying to reunify with family here" or are in families with mixed citizenship, he said. In turn, loved ones who are working in the U.S. often help migrants raise the money to pay smugglers' steep fees, Enriquez added.
"It's a terrible human tragedy, and it continues to happen on a too-regular basis, because we have really failed to address two of the most important components of immigration law, which is family reunification and labor," he said.
Noting flaws in the U.S. guest worker program and other issues, Enriquez added, "Basically, we've stayed in a holding pattern for the last 10 or 15 years."
One thing that has changed is the difficulty of crossing into the U.S. Because of the measures people take to elude new technologies, Enriquez said, migrants' journeys continue to get more dangerous.
Another part of the problem, Robinette said, is that when things go wrong, human traffickers will look after themselves first.
"At the end of the day, these smugglers have very, very little value or care" for the people they're bringing into the U.S., he said.
For migrants who rely on human smugglers, the heat sharply increases the risks they face. The San Antonio area has been experiencing extreme heat, with record temperatures topping 100 degrees this month.
"Any mistakes are essentially a death sentence to folks," Enriquez said, adding that if a driver doesn't show up on time to pick up a load, or if a refrigeration unit fails, "You're putting folks in a tremendous amount of peril."
Robinette says the U.S. has long sent mixed messages to would-be migrants, who then risk everything for the chance of a better life, despite the dangers and the threat of prosecution.
Until the U.S. can change the dynamic, he said, "we're going to have people doing anything and everything they can to try to get in here and many times risking their lives, like they did in this situation."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/immigration/article/How-does-human-smuggling-work-17279592.phpWhat is the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking?
Human smuggling is when a person willingly pays a smuggler to gain entry into a foreign country, while human trafficking is the exploitation of an individual, for labor or commercial sex acts, using force, fraud or coercion.
'TOO MANY INNOCENT DEATHS': Biden says human smuggling crackdown will intensify after San Antonio migrant deaths
“A key difference is that victims of trafficking are considered victims of a crime under international law; smuggled migrants are not—they pay smugglers to facilitate their movement,” according to the U.S. Department of State.
However, it’s not uncommon for a migrant who willingly is being smuggled to end up being exploited or trafficked.
Old Justice Department stats:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs27/27513/border.htmUSA Today expose on drug cartel market and how they go around walls.
https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/story/drug-trafficking-smuggling-cartels-tunnels/559814001/NYT article on human smuggling:
Smuggling Migrants at the Border Now a Billion-Dollar Business
With demand for smugglers on the rise, organized crime has moved in, with cruel and violent results.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evolution.htmlI'm not a big person on thinking harmless civil violations of unjust laws makes a person a bad person though.
Did I claim all illegal immigrants are bad people?
No.
But I don't know who they are. Are you denying Mexico does not have a cartel/drug problem?
As per NYT:
‘Absolute Warfare’: Cartels Terrorize Mexico as Security Forces Fall Short
The president disbanded the Federal Police and created the National Guard to tackle soaring violence, but three years later, criminal cartels have expanded their reach.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/world/americas/mexico-cartels-violence.htmlThese are not Canadians with their low crime rate, Benji.
Canadians gangs certainly aren't "terrorizing Canada". You have nothing to worry about. However, these people are unchecked and they can waltz in. Given the very apparent problem in Mexico, why in the
hell would I trust people that are passing through that very country to be able to cross borders into my and surrounding states without going through authorities?
I don't trust a robber to come into my house without asking. Sure, some might not be non-violent and just there to steal stuff. But why should I give them the benefit of the doubt? I have no idea what their aims are. Some might actually try to come because they really want to add to America and want a better life. Cool. This isn't to call them all bad, but to trust
blindly is foolish. Given the very real circumstances that allow firearm ownership in case of robbery to shoot assailants if need be, why in the ever living fuck would I want much less allow people to do the same thing through my own border.
An uncontrolled border leads to sex slavery, human trafficking, human smuggling, drug smuggling, violence, and an entire swarm of humanitarian violations.
How is this not contradicting NAP?
Why should I just trust people to come into my state without being checked just because I will be accused of being racist from by people far, far away from the issue who don't have to deal with it?
Are you fine letting robbers rob houses too? Or are you more fine with calling them "visitors"? Some are migrants, some aren't but all are illegal immigrants and to label them "migrants" with a broad brush is to deflect from the reality of the issue.
The case is very clear: build the wall. Add more security on the border.
If Democrats were doing all they can about it, I'd give them a pass. But Biden's administration is half assing it in the name of fighting "racism" while putting his actual constituents and citizens in harms way. Don't forget, if it's easy to get into America it must be easy to get out. Guns go out of America too. I'm sure people are just as easy to traffic.
