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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am livid. I can't believe that we are going to waste money, yes WASTE money, on a wall and sending troops to the boarder when illegal immigration across the boarder has been at a record low. There are so many [b]more priorities like the opioid crisis[/b], getting Puerto Rico 100% back on the grid, [b]dealing with gun violence[/b], securing health care and saving Social Security. It's unconscionable that we are chasing around Trump's[b] imagined boogeymen using taxpayer's dollars[/b]. Un*f'ing*believable.[/quote]

Actually securing the border would help fight the opiod crisis. 95% of heroin consumed in the US comes from Mexico. Stronger border security would aid in cutting the supply chain. And the drug cartels are not imagined boogeyman. There is a real enemy south of us. Yes, many are families fleeing for a better life but you would be burying your head in the sand not to acknowledge the level of crime that crosses the border as well. [/quote]

February 15th hearing of the House Judiciary Committee:
A panelist who testified at the hearing—Dr. Keith Humphreys of the Stanford University School of Medicine—said that the opioid epidemic is, "…at its most destructive [in] rural areas that don’t have sanctuary cities and indeed generally don’t have cities at all. Recent immigrants are rare, yet opioid addiction is rampant. That’s because the opioid epidemic was made in America, not in Mexico, China, or any other foreign country.”

See: Purdue Pharma[/quote]

I'm not claiming that the problem wasn't American made. Of course big pharma and overzealous doctors are to blame for the opioid epidemic. You missed my point entirely though. My point is where do you think all the heroin and fentanyl is coming from? Do some research. 95% of it is comes from Mexico. And the cartels are brutal brutal people that you do not want in our country. Cut off the supply chain, or at least try to minimize it. [/quote]

Ah, but just like a criminal will always find a gun, the druggie will find the drugs. If demand exists, the supply will come from somewhere.  You need to attack from both sides.[/quote]

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