Since I like to live dangerously, I went to "Fox News" for this article (it actually ended up originally being from the "Associated Press").
Recently, three Mexican men were found folded into a wooden box hidden underneath an RV driven by U.S. citizen. They were caught after Border Patrol Dogs sniffed them out at the California-Mexico border.
I confess what I really want is for someone to smash the cartels and for us to be able to open up the U.S.-Mexico border. I realize that the cartels aren't going down without a fight, but I'm nearly beyond all hope that there is a peaceful solution to dealing with the drug lords (other than all U.S. drug users giving up drugs and totally eliminating all of the State's demand for the cartel's goods - but what are the chances of that?) I'm not quite ready to call for a total violent overhaul of Mexico, but are there any other solutions?
So what's the lesser evil? Do we keep pulling potentially innocent men and women from wooden boxes underneath cars rather than dealing with the cartels? Is there another pragmatic option? Do we close the border completely? Open it up completely? Wage a costly quasi-war with Mexico's cartels? I'm not sure what the best course of action is, and I don't really know of anyone who does.
The default course of action seems to be stagnating any change in immigration policy and just waiting things out, so for the next little while I guess we will continue to pull men out of wooden boxes.
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