We Look into the Eyes of a Beggar and See the Face of a Terrorist

The flood of migrants is creating chaos. In a couple instances, the entry ports have been shut down in order to shift border officers to those just showing up unannounced and without paperwork. In other words, the vehicle traffic has been suspended because of the need to deal with those swimming across the Rio Grande, or where ever. The ironic thing about that is that such action stops the cartels from getting drugs into the U.S. through that port. We shut down the ports of entry -- not considering that that is where there is the greater threat of illegal drugs coming in -- in order to process the migrants who have wandered across the desert and who are accused of being the source of illegal drugs. Do we really think the cartels are so foolish that they would load a migrant with drugs knowing that they are going to turn themselves in at the border, or get caught at the border, and all the drugs confiscated? That would be directing your drugs right into the mouth of the capture. There were 300,000 encounters with migrants last month. If the cartels are loading their drugs on the migrants, that would be 300,000 chances of catching a drug smuggler. How many news accounts have you seen about drugs being seized from migrants? Of those 300,000 encounters, how many involved illegal drugs being seized? Did we see so much as one story of drugs being seized? No, I do not think that is a prime way drugs are entering our country. There are many ways illegal drugs are smuggled -- airplanes, underground tunnels, and vehicular traffic among them. They hide drugs in semi trailers, and underneath floorboards of cars. So, when we close border ports, that stops the drug flow through that drug port. Then we rush our border agents over to the Rio Grande, saying we have to concentrate there because they are bringing in illegal drugs. There is irony in that. These migrants are the poor of the world. They want to escape the poverty and conditions of the countries they come from. They aspire to be Americans. And how do we react? We look into the eyes of a beggar and see the face of a terrorist.