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Government doesn’t have enough staff on border

Published/Last Modified on Friday, Sep 05, 2008 - 05:30:43 am MST

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To the Editor:

In reply to Francis N. McWilliams, “Pointing the finger” (Aug. 30), I don’t know which finger you refer to, but I am sure of the location of the finger when Mexico refers to it, and they point it at us a lot. In the area of drug enforcement, you need to look at the whole picture and not just your small part of this great problem.

First off, the U.S. government spent billions of dollars in Columbia, taking out dictators and moving the drug cartels north to Mexico. Drugs are Mexico’s largest form of income and when a country depends on that income then they will go to extremes to make sure it is protected. Most of the contrabandistas you speak of were trained by ex-military of the United States. Your perception that we have enough staff on the border is ridiculous. If the government put enough staff on the border and did their job correctly, then we would not need Chertoff and many of the other high paid government employees.

What should be done is empty the seats in Washington and in every government office and put them on the border, and guess what, we could cover every square inch of the 2,000 miles.

No, my friend, we are not to blame, it is the wishes of rich fat cats in Mexico making a dirty living and passing it on to rich fat cats here in the United States.

Harold W. Sanders

McNeal

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Seriously wrote on Sep 10, 2008 11:41 PM:

" Looks like the "free market" is asking for recreational drugs so why all the fuss to deny it? You always said that if the market wants it, the market gets it. And the market appears to be winning which is what I would expect. One might have thought we would have learned with prohibition but I guess that is just crazy to think we would learn by history. Concerned Citizen living in a military state with orders to shoot is not my idea of freedom. "

Concerned Citizen wrote on Sep 5, 2008 7:53 AM:

" Again I will say it, put the military on the border with orders to shoot! "