sometimes you ask, other times you put words in my mouth.
And... you still didn't answer my questions about what you mean or what your position is. Three times you didn't answer. And three times you talked about me putting words in your mouth when I'm asking you to use your words to tell me.
My position is this: the President is responsible for border security. He should stop illegal immigration instead of enabling it.
This is true, but to a lessor degree than most people think. It's vaguely similar to building sea walls. Yes, you can do it, like in the Netherlands, but it's an enormously costly and complex undertaking.
The bottom line is that "the war on drugs" has basically failed. We need to look at why people take harmful drugs. For the sake of discussion, I'll agree that people don't take fentanyl on purpose, it's used to spike drugs like heroin, meth and cocaine.
Okay, so why do people take these harmful drugs? I would say that poor living conditions are highly correlated. That, and the fact that as long as these drugs are illegal, a LOT of criminal activity will ensue. And this is true no matter how tight you try to make border security.
You seem to be focused on the war on drugs instead of on the issue of border security.
Are you trying to say that the war on drugs is the one thing the President should do well and not half-***?
I think that because border security impacts drug availabilty border security can impact the war on drugs as well. But it's not clear to me how the war on drugs can impact border security.
Moreover, I'm not so sure that you can cure addiction. As far as the correlation of living conditions to addiction, I think that addiction generally destroys people's lives and leads them into poor living conditions. Most people are not so wealthy that they can afford their addiction and not worry about the consequences. And if you are in poor living conditions when you become addicted, then addiction generally prevents you from escaping poverty. Yet even if you did escape poverty, you would still be addicted. But if we reduce the availability of fentanyl, then at least fewer people will die to their addictions as fentanyl is not an essential component of their drug addictions.
Moreover, the President is more directly responsible for securing the border than he is responsible for drug addictions. There are clear actions the President should take to secure the border: Remain in Mexico policy, end Catch and Release, and enforcing existing laws are examples. Hey, there's also a wall that could be completed, which is not nothing. He should also pressure Congress to pass additional legislation to clear up problems such as laws that force family separations, which are still on the books and which Congress, whose responsiblility it is to pass laws, has still done absolutely nothing to amend. Very disappointing.
But it's not clear to me what the President should do about drug addicition. What do you think the President should do to solve the addiction problem?
