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The idea that racial profiling will now begin, due to the new Arizona
law, is ridiculous—the U. S. Border Patrol has, for many years now, been
engaging in the commonsense practice of racial profiling in order to iden-
tify illegal aliens. For example, I realize that most Americans have not tra-
veled through south Texas on a Greyhound bus as I have, but I can assure
you that the U. S. Border Patrol, for many years now, has routinely
stopped such busses and asked Hispanic people for their papers and that I,
being white, have never been asked to show mine. Likewise, whenever I’ve
traveled on Interstate 10 through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, I, like
everyone else, have had to stop at the U. S. Border Patrol checkpoints
along the way where the U. S. Border Patrol will ask Hispanic people to
show their papers. But again, I have never been asked to show mine.
The new Arizona law simply allows ordinary police officers in Arizona,
and not just U. S. Border Patrol officers, to ask Hispanic people for their
papers, which prove that they are in the country legally. Legal aliens have
long had to carry these papers with them and the U. S. Border Patrol has
long been asking to see them. Considering the fact that Mexico is virtually
a war zone, due to America’s failed War on Drugs, and a smuggler’s free-
for-all, what’s the big deal about Arizona’s now allowing Arizona cops to
assist the incredibly overworked U. S. Border Patrol in policing illegals?
The second option is the better of the two solutions. Legalizing mariju-
ana would devastate the cartels financially, effectively putting them out of
business. The money they make from marijuana sales is what they use to
fund their sales of narcotics. For example, if a cartel “loses” a shipment of
heroin, which isn’t hard to do, because the shipments are relatively small
and very valuable, about a pick-up truck load, that loss is then made-up
with the large cash flow that is provided by the cartel’s marijuana sales.
Marijuana is not as easy to smuggle as heroin. On the level of cartel financ-
ing it requires a large scale operation, because it requires several pick-up
truck loads each time; therefore the cartels require vast, regular, illegal in-
roads into the U. S. in order to keep this money flowing (see also a recent
article concerning this important issue). If marijuana were to be legalized,
this action would shut down the cartel’s illegal inroads, defund their nar-
cotic trafficking, and put loads of tax money into U. S. coffers (about 70
billion dollars a year), which makes a lot of sense to me, and it would also
bring an end of the Mexican government’s war with the cartels.
America’s “War on Drugs” policy is a proven failure that has only led to
corruption, violence, murder, and more people than ever fleeing Mexico
for their lives. This horrible situation will continue until the real problems
are addressed and I can assure you that the real problem is not Arizona’s
new law regarding illegal immigration; it’s America’s failed drug policy.