If You're a Smart Smuggler, You Use a Freeway, not a Footpath

   I think many are ahead of me on this, already realizing it, but it is a bombshell to me: Most of the illegal drugs crossing into our country are coming in with those entering legally, not with those coming illegally.
  Read from an article in the today's online Washington Post:
  "Trump has tied illegal immigration to the opioid crisis specifically and illegal drug smuggling broadly. But that, too is misleading.
   "In February 2017, former Homeland Security secretary John F. Kelly -- and now Trump's chief of staff, for the next few days -- testified before Congress that most drugs that enter the U.S. across the border with Mexico come smuggled in vehicles or on the bodies of people crossing into the U.S."
   I would imagine there are no roads that do not pass through points of entry. And, if you pass through a point of entry, you are coming legally. Take one of these ports of entry, San Ysidro, and you have 100,000 vehicles entering a day. Do you have time to thoroughly search each vehicle?
  If there are drug-sniffing dogs, can you seal off the drugs so they cannot be sniffed? I would guess so.
  We have a law -- it's called the U.S. Constitution -- against illegal search and seizure. I do not know how how that law plays out at the border. I would guess the possibility of drugs makes searches legal. At any rate, as I said, you likely cannot make a thorough search of each and every vehicle.
  So, what is the smartest way to smuggle drugs into the U.S.? Do you make pack mules out of those sneaking in across the desert? Anything they bring is extra baggage. They pare down to the least they can carry in order to make it across the desert on foot. So, what if they get caught? And, what if they turn themselves in for asylum as soon as they cross?
  The drugs will never be delivered.
  But, if you use the people coming legally, you can stash a fair-sized load as long as you place it in places not likely to be searched. Instead of walking in, you ride in. Instead of sneaking in, you have free passage and welcome passage.
   Greased entry.
   I don't know if any of the roads crossing the border are to be classed as freeways. Perhaps so. At any rate, the choice, in essence, is whether you choose to smuggle your drugs on a freeway or on a footpath.