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The immigration topic has always been a hot button topic for people. Wanting to pass tougher and tougher legislation against immigrants has yet to produce even a slow down in illegal immigration. I propose we should try something new, instead of making rules that prosecute the immigrant and cost the tax payer money, how about we stop creating a society that bankrupts another country. By legalizing drugs you would run the very people that ruin the Mexican economy out of business and then allow its citizens to at least get a foot hold on to repairing their own country. Instead of making our home undesirable how about we try to make their home more livable, an option that would save both countries billions of dollars.
What a nice post! I really like your perspective about this (as you said) hot button topic for people. We have to realize that the change is in our hands, and we must attack the problem from the source, if we help them to eradicate the mafia's issue, they will be able to focus in their internal issues. We are all human beings, and we should help each other to success in this big planet, our home. We must think as a unit trying to survive the challenges together and then get a world full of prosperity for all, and not just for few. I do believe that some day this going to be a reality and we better understand before it's too late.
ReplyDeleteBut we have to be realistic about this issue. Today's government won't consider something like legalization of drugs, or at least not in a decade from now. In the meantime, we have to go toward a new reform in the immigration law. Government should realize that we need a more actualized and homogeneous immigration reform from the federal law, and not from each single state; Unity is strength, and having this reform in the whole country will help securing the border and controlling illegal immigration in a more effective way.
I'm sure government someday will have to legalize drugs; that is an unwinnable war and we must find another way to attack it. When that day comes, Mexico and U.S. will have a turning point in the trafficking war not only in the social sector, but also in the economical sector.