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Thank god for the Wall!!!


IMO you underestimate cartels.

It's been back and forth since the start of the drug war.

Sure, people walk it over occasionally. They have submersibles, tunnels dug waiting to be completed North Korean style, functional tunnels, etc. I'd bet they have drones, or are R&Ding drone smuggling.

Cars and trucks coming through the border, decoy cars and trucks meant to be discovered so that something bigger gets through. Trap doors in sedans, faked shipments in trucks, shipping containers in ports with falsified information hidden among the masses of imports.

These guys are not going to pack up shop and sell bars of soap because of a wall. Where there is a will, there is a way.

If you were joking, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise. Poe's Law, I suppose.

My point is that the demand is incredibly high. Drugs that are worth very little along that corridor are worth much, much more on the streets of the US.

People will continue to risk life and limb, as well as take life and limb, as long as the War on Drugs continues. The potential profit is too great.


I'd bet a dollar he was being sarcastic.




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