Clearly the only solution here is to build a wall at our ports of entry!
“The reason that drug traffickers are largely U.S. citizens is because most drug trafficking occurs at ports of entry because most drugs—other than marijuana—are easier to conceal in legal luggage than while crossing the Rio Grande or the desserts in Arizona. Figure 2 shows the location where Customs and Border Protection seizes drugs by drug type. Port officers seized between 80 and 90 percent of every major drug type except for marijuana. Even there, officers at ports made nearly half of all the seizures so far in 2019.”
That’s actually a terrifying statistic. There is and estimated 320 million American citizens and 20 million illegals. Of the 20 million roughly a quarter of them are involved in drug trafficking.
Your math is off. The report does not say the remaining 23% of drug trafficking cases were from illegal immigrants (16% were). And it is definitely not saying 23% of all illegal immigrants are drug traffickers. Just like it is not saying 77% of U.S. citizens are drug traffickers .
I can’t open the raw data for 2018 from the USSC. I’ve included the fact sheet from the USSC for 2017 below. We do know 17% of drug trafficking was from illegal immigrants in 2017, similar to 2018. In 2017, there were a total of 19,240 drug trafficking cases per the USSC. 17% of that is 3,270. Using your number of 20 million illegals, that is 0.0016% of all illegal immigrants. A shade under “roughly a quarter.” Using the same numbers, 0.0044% of all U.S. citizens were involved in drug trafficking. Three times higher than illegal immigrants.
It wasn’t my math it was my English, I went full retard for a sec and didn’t proofread. I meant to imply it’s not a good thing that 1/4 of all drug trafficking is done by illegals, which represent a small minority of the population compared to the population as a whole.
Stopping illegal immigration is its own reward. What drugs are being sold is a different thing and I am perfectly happy to leave that to the professional law enforcement and border patrol.
However…apparently this “think tank” didn’t think that the number of drug smugglers caught might not be exactly the same thing as the number of drug smugglers or the quantity of drugs smuggled.
Perhaps it is easier to catch smugglers at ports of entry. Perhaps more drugs can be smuggled through an underground tunnel than can be smuggled through a suitcase.
Well. It’s still not 1/4th (16-17%). Also, as I stated, an illegal immigrant is 3 times less likely to be involved in drug trafficking than a U.S. citizen.
This “think tank” used data from the U.S. government. Are you saying the government is wrong? How do you count people who don’t get caught? Just make up a scenario and numbers that fit your agenda?
Math is tough when it doesn’t support your misconceptions, isn’t it?
If you have counted the number of oranges, don’t tell everybody you have counted the number of apples. They have not determined the number of drugs smuggled in ports of entry compared to the number of drugs smuggled elsewhere. They have not determined the nationality of most drug smugglers. The government has not made that claim so the government is not wrong.
I have no agenda, so I don’t have to find the answer.
Nor, unlike some, do I feel the need to pretend I have found the answer.
Is there a register of all drug traffickers somewhere and a register of all their drug movements somewhere?
How can we know how many drugs are coming into the US?
How can we know how many drug runners there are?
Sounds like an appeal to probability to me. Ignore available statistics based on the assumption missing statistics would prove your point. I hope you’re not a statistician or work in a science field. That thinking could hurt people.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Build a wall at the southern board to stop the 23% of Mexican smugglers AND build a wall around the ports of entry to stop the 77% of American smugglers.
Simple solution - legalize drugs and tax it. Yes there would still be an illegal trade in drugs just like there is with alcohol and tobacco but the vast majority of people would purchase drugs from legal sources. The government gets it cut and the war on drugs is won.
