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Sep 17, 2022·edited Sep 17, 2022

This is as much a drug problem is it is symptomatic of a demoralization crisis.

If it's true that when the wealthy catch a cold, the lower classes catch pneumonia then the lower classes have terminal pneumonia at present.

I'd be hard pressed to claim that there is some simple "war on drugs" solution to a problem involving drugs which are so cheaply produced and easily trafficked that their rapid proliferation can be stopped short of draconian measures. Frankly, i'm anticipating that homelessness and drug addition will be met with Duterte style execution squads at some point in our generation. Probably sooner than later judging from the international community's mere whimpers to Duterte's rapid implementation of extrajudicially dealing with drugs.

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Just posted this on Fakebook and sent by email to family:

People are dying in open air drugs markets in Philadelphia because the city and state governments are not doing their jobs. The images are dystopian.

https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/shapiros-walmart-of-drugs

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1,946,780 people have illegally crossed the southern border in FY2022 so far.

3,681,466 people have illegally crossed the southern border since Biden took office.

We have no idea how many were allowed to enter the country.

We have no idea where they are.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

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The Biden Administration has been bussing and flying these people all over the United States, often in the middle of the night without notifying local and state governments.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/22/the-mainstream-medias-lies-on-secret-migrant-flies/?fbclid=IwAR0NNoPKPK2upDnfzbwKBy8WRtGVu3UAPph_t_hDrQS2VA2KCX3K-q1AP5A

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Nearly 750 people (including children) have drowned in the river or died in the desert so far in FY2022.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/nearly-750-migrants-have-died-crossing-the-border-this-fiscal-year-shattering-last-years-record-report/?fbclid=IwAR3vtq1jAd8I2RMD_n5NoHwUkxQIxLGIb-WFaY88xMSNGbmaqb1orFrsMQk

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An estimated 500,000 gotaways in FY2022 so far.

https://nypost.com/2022/07/25/over-500k-immigrant-gotaways-at-border-may-be-in-us-report/?fbclid=IwAR1HYOnGP5jlQm6aTZgiRc0EaME1i4NQvJcF4loVbTDgJesoaIIak0SuA-o

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The Border Patrol is dealing with about 8000 illegal immigrants a day...and those are the ones that turn themselves in or are caught. Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, stated that 1000 encounters a day was overwhelming. We are now eight times that rate with no end in sight.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/highest-number-in-us-history-border-patrol-logs-8000-migrants-entering-us-each-day/

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Where are all the people who cared so much about illegal immigrants under the Trump administration? They're outraged that border state governors are sending illegal immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities (DC, NYC, Chicago, Edgartown), but they have no problem with Biden's middle-of-the-night flights? Out of sight, out of mind? If Chuck Todd doesn't report on it, it's not a problem?

The border is not secure, so people from all over the world are coming. An unknown number die before they even reach the border. Women and children are raped and trafficked. Some pay their way as drug mules. No one crosses the border illegally without paying the cartels. No one. How do desperately poor people come up with thousands of dollars to cross?

The US federal government is incentivizing desperate people to make a dangerous and sometimes fatal journey to our southern border.

The US federal government is enriching the cartels and endangering American citizens by allowing drugs to flood across the border. If the Border Patrol officers are overwhelmed with illegal immigrants, they are not able to stop the drug mules crossing in other areas.

Why is the Biden administration allowing this?

Why is the Biden administration lying about this?

Where are all the people who cared about illegal immigrants under Trump?

We own every bad thing that happens to these people.

We own every bad thing that happens to these children.

You get what you vote for. Did you vote for this?

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Mastriano, PhD in History, speech at war College wearing a confederate costume vs. Shapiro, current PA DA, watches people die in the streets of PA's metros and does nothing.

A costume vs. watching people die.

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We need to bring back the vagrancy laws and institutions. Just because it is public does not mean that you can live, sleep, get high, defecate anywhere you want. If you can't help yourself, we will help you, give you a place to stay, feed and clothe while you do menial work to pay for your maintenance. When you have successfully recovered, you are free to go but do it again and you will be back. The poor house/work house used to scare people and were not places you wanted to go. Today, even prison is like a holiday camp. Bring back personal responsibility and cut the welfare period.

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