Stop being melodramatic. Everyone knows what to do. You either do it or you delay it. You want delay. I want action because people are being hurt right now.
Actually, in a different conversation in this thread, I have already advocated for immediate and aggressive action. I just don't think that you have ever addressed any of my points and was pointing out that it wasn't because of YOUR arguments that I had taken that stance. Again, you are behind the times: I am an advocate of immediate, thorough and forceful action.
... you want a delayed response.
Saying that I want a delayed response is such a misrepresentation of what I was advocating. I wanted an incremental response because I thought there were too many economic consequences to a comprehensive response. I decided I was wrong about that, and changed my mind. But, I never wanted a delayed response.
Actually it is. They will leave and go home. Observe.
Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.
Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy.
"Nobody wants to pick us up," Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law - CBS News
See what happens when action is taken and people don't live in the world of theory like you do?
Let me help you think this through:
Where do you suppose those people are going?
Where do you suppose they will go when there are no more jobs in the U.S. for them?
As economically poor individuals, what do you suppose they will do once they arrive back in Mexico?
Do you think anyone in Mexico will be interested in making use of these people?
hahaha What a defeatist attitude you have. We can't get rid of their jobs because then the drug cartels will employ them and we can't deport them because its mean.
Now you're putting words in my mouth. I am sure you think that's what I was saying, but it clearly is not. Again, you see what you want to see.
I will help tutor you in reading comprehension: Here are some hints - I did say that some of them would be willing to work for the cartels. I didn't say that we shouldn't proceed with immediate, comprehensive illegal immigrant reform and law enforcement. In fact, I said the opposite. So, why do you suppose I brought up the issue about the cartels and such? Aww, hell, I can't trust you to come up with a sensible answer, so I'll just give it to you: Because I thought it should be something we need to be prepared for and do something about.
I'll tell you what. You find an article talking about the employee problems within the Cartels and I'll wait laughing here while you try and find something to back up your rediculus claim.
Oh please, you are unbelievable. If it is so ridiculous, you should be able to come up with an article that says they have all the employees they could ever wish for.
No you didn't. And you never addressed how we would combat the voilence.
Yes, I did. I addressed it by promoting a solution to neutralize it. Right after I stated that we should still go ahead and proceed with effective immigration law enforcement.
I know drugs would be a hell of lot higher in cost if the borders were secure.
Perhaps. However, they don't have to ship them through the border, and shipping them by plane and sea, although higher, may not be a 'hell of lot' higher.
I know that the illegals employed to bring the drugs would be fewer and far between if the chance they would be deported rose sharply.
That is completely untrue. Why would they care if they were deported when there are no jobs here for them other than drug industry jobs?
The way you make it harder is to control the flow better. Raise the price. Make it harder to bring in.
Why spend all that money getting the price to go up? Just legalize them. Then take over the production and distribution, temporarily. Privatize the industry later if you want.
We have had aggressive drug interdiction efforts before. I see no reason to begin them again.
Unfettered access from the border is the first problem.
No, it isn't.
Dealing with addiction is the second.
This is the first problem. The two problems are separate and don't even need to be related. Legalization would uncouple them.
Easy analogy for you. If there's a hole in the dam do you repair it fist or start bailing out the water?
Drugs are not water and addiction rehabilitation is not the same as 'bailing out water'. Here is why: With a dam you have an actual hope of stemming the flow of water once the dam is repaired. Over the long history of the "drug war", I have seen zero evidence that attempts at stemming the flow of drugs into the country has ever actually succeeded in significantly reducing the flow of drugs. We keep trying, partly because people think drugs are like water and interdiction is like building a dam. But, I really don't want to keep learning the lesson that they are not not the same. Over and over. Here's a bonus question for ya': What is the definition of insanity?
But you and your defeatest attitude don't want to plug the hole, you want to look around at the water coming in and think about it.
Sorry, we can't wait for you.
Sorry, but your straw man has too many holes, and his stuffing keeps falling out. You're not very good at this are you? If you want to keep putting words in my mouth, you'll have to provide evidence. When did I say that I wanted to delay enforcement of immigration laws because of potential problems with strengthening the power of drug cartels? When did I say that I want to think about it while waiting to take action?
Again, I had very specific reasons for wanting to ramp up enforcement, but became differently convinced about those issues. The whole drug thing is not those reasons and I have never said I want to delay, measure, or ramp up enforcement due to this aspect. I specifically stated, when I first voiced the concerns about drug distribution issues, that despite these reservations, I believe that effective enforcement should begin immediately and aggressively. I specifically stated this because I wanted to voice the concerns, but avoid a drawn out idiotic discussion trying to explain that I didn't mention them as a point on which to oppose enforcement, and get on with discussing possible solutions. But, it really was giving you too much credit, I guess.
Yes, here I am explaining THAT I DON'T CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL CRIMINAL DRUG DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS TO BE A REASON TO DELAY, OR IN ANY WAY DILUTE IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND AT NO POINT DID I EVER TAKE THAT VIEWPOINT.
Sorry to shout, but I am thinking it might help you to hear me.