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If fentanyl deaths are your issue, then arresting immigrants isn't the cure: US citizens are smuggling the vast majority.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

Indeed. The two points aren't connected.

Ever notice how that bot farm was raided overseas this stream has been quieter? Me too

That’s true!

The police have been arresting the wrong person forever. It's much, much, much easier to determine if a person is a legally allowed to be here, than it is to solve a crime.

So what if ICE arrests the wrong person. They'll immediately be released when they show a legal reason to be here.

It's a 1,000 times harder to prove innocence of a non-immigration related crime. Innocent people have been executed.

It's all a tragedy but we don't live in a perfect world. So if an ICE agent accidentally arrests a legal citizen, green card holder, etc. then at least there's no threat of them being executed or being sent to prison for many years. They just have to show a valid ID and the problem is solved.

"So what if ICE arrests the wrong person"

Wrongful arrest is against the law

It is but mistakes happen all the time. It happens with citizens all the time. Our law enforcement should always strive to improve but that doesn't mean we should shut the whole thing down just because of 1 or 2 mistakes.

Why is it so important that people come to and stay in this country illegally?

Every murder or rape committed by someone who is here illegally just did not need to happen. If the left stopped trying to destroy this nation then maybe they would understand that. Of course not all illegal immigrants commit crime, other than the crime of illegally entering this country but the fact that it does happen places some of the blame for those crimes on the left.

The type of people crossing our border illegally is changing. It used to be people who wanted to work and earn more money then they could in their own country. Those are the minority of who is crossing our border illegally. But those are the only people the left sees.

Since Biden started handing out free money he attracted the freeloaders of the world. They aren't here to work, they're here for the handouts.

In addition there are Islamic terrorists who are coming here and this started before Biden. Venezuela was working with them to teach them Spanish and how to dress and act like Mexicans when they crossed the border. So it wouldn't look like a Islamic invasion.

BTW Islam has a strategy for taking over countries that they have been using for about a century. They know they can't always raise a big enough army to take over a country so the slowly infiltrate into a country. They establish Muslim communities and begin to practice sharia law. They try to insert themselves into government positions that will give them strategic advantage. When they become about 30% of the population then that is when the bloodshed starts.

For some bizarre reason the UN and most of the leaders of the Western world decided to facilitate a Muslim take over by importing immigrants and calling them refugees. Rapes and murders have skyrocketed in Europe because of that. In Islam raping or murdering an infidel is not considered a sin or crime.

I am not living in fear of any of Islam but at the same time that doesn't mean I want any of this happening here and Islamification has already started here. The left is facilitating it and encouraging it. Apparently the left thinks they can control the Muslim population. Idiots.

So I ask again, why is it so important that illegals stay here?

It’s actually less then 100k

The number they're running off of is 100k overdose deaths in total. In 2023, there were about 110,000 overdose deaths in the US (shocking! way too high) and about 76,000 of them were from synthetic opiods. The good news is that those deaths came down significantly in 2024.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/releases/20250514.html

Behavioral health, like the nuances of statistics are apparently verboten to MAGA, though.

This has nothing to do with drugs crossing the border but drugs itself I can’t see the point you’re trying to make

That is my point. A great deal of fentanyl does cross our borders illegally, and leads to a great many American deaths -- BUT it is not coming with immigrants, so arresting or harassing immigrants does nothing to stop the drug-overdose deaths. Arguably, the money our government is spending to punish immigrants is being diverted from efforts to keep fentanyl from crossing the border, and may result in more deaths (one hopes not, but I guess we'll find out).

My point about behavioral health is that it's the practice of figuring out what steps change people's behavior in healthier directions, and what steps produce less death and suffering. Conservatives typically have a hard time with that mode of thought, because it requires us to stop saying and planning, "Drug users are bad people. Sweep the places where they do drugs, arrest and punish them." Instead, you have to find interventions that actually work, like needle exchanges.

Ok I now see your point sorry I was under the impression you were blaming migrants or something along those lines. My bad

I did see a record the other day most immigrants arrested and deported have no history of crime at all which doesn’t make sense like they help do jobs and pay taxes ect ect why deport the non violent mother of 6?

I see Trump doing the drug boats and attacking them but honestly without sufficient proof they have drugs I don’t believe it and while they do that fentanyl gets over the north and south border

It's another case of our collective impulse to handle behavioral health as a moral issue causing greater problems. MAGA really wants someone to blame for the economy, for crime, for the drug deaths, for music not being as good as it was when they were in high school, et cetera.

But immigrants commit crimes at a lower per capita rate than US citizens, and drug smugglers also know that immigrants (legal OR illegal) are more likely to be stopped and searched.

As a white male I’m a white male im 4x more likely to commit a violent crime then a black person or Hispanic but you’d never see any conservative saying the truth

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