May 03, 2006
What Amnesty Brings
Welcome to the new look of illegal immigration.
Via the L.A. Times:
Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he's vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.The list of illegal drugs approved for personal consumption by Mexico's Congress last week is enough to make one dizzy — or worse.
Cocaine. Heroin. LSD. Marijuana. PCP. Opium. Synthetic opiates. Mescaline. Peyote. Psilocybin mushrooms. Amphetamines. Methamphetamines.
And the per-person amounts approved for possession by anyone 18 or older could easily turn any college party into an all-nighter: half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy pills, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus.
The law would be among the most permissive in the world, putting Mexico in the company of the Netherlands. Critics, including U.S. drug policy officials, already are worrying that it will spur a domestic addiction problem and make Mexico a narco-tourism destination.
So not only are we facing an ever-increasing number of illegal aliens leaching funds and services that were created to help America's legal residents, we're now facing the distinct possibility that these illegals will be junkies and addicts desperate for a fix as well.
Remember to "thank" your Republican senators pushing for the amnesty bill by voting them out of office in November.
Perhaps after enough of our dopers head south of the border, the Mexicans will re-think this policy; I'm a native New Yorker and have visited Amsterdam often, and I've decided that druggies are a detriment to any society they temporarily call home, but we could have a reverse migration that benefits us!
Posted by: Tom TB at May 3, 2006 06:03 PMHow can voting for people who will do the very same thing (Democrats) change anything?
Posted by: Rachel at May 4, 2006 09:30 AMA more palatable action is just to stay home in November...
Posted by: _Jon at May 4, 2006 02:39 PMCY -
I share your frustration with the Republican Party. To me, it seems such a simple thing to vote to create a Great Wall of America along the Mexican-US border, and I too loathe the ball-less hand-wringing of our senators and congressional reps.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water, though. Surely, the Democratic replacements will only be worse.
Perhaps a few more "This was our homeland" posters will convince the lawmakers that the immigrants actually see themselves as "re-conquistadores" that need a physical barrier to make the point: this is our land; it will forever be our land so long as we stand to protect it; and fences make good neighbors.
Posted by: Atticus_NC at May 6, 2006 05:49 PM
