(via The Map Scroll: Human Development and the US-Mexico Border)
My favorite map, showing that the poorest county on the US border is still higher than any of the counties to the South. Until this is addressed, no immigration policy will keep people from trying to seek a better life.
In addition, how many drug killings in Mexico can be attributed to the US war on drugs? The substance of evil is not in words, but in actions. To wade through the issue on abstinence, seems ridiculous when so many lose their lives to feed a demand. Follow the money, and you will see we can’t fence away our problems. It didn’t work in Berlin, it doesn’t work in the West Bank, and it is farcical to think we can mask the underlying problem with concrete, chain link and barbed wire. GET REAL.
