The war on drugs was prosecuted through law enforcement means inside the U.S., focused on controlling drugs. This would be executed through military means with the goal of eliminating organizations. Ideally like a combination of the war on ISIS m and the war on the italian mafia.
Wars on drugs are basically fighting laws of economics themselves. The only option that actually works is legislation & regulation. Why we think that we can't regulate cocaine the way we regulate alcohol, weed, or cigarettes is beyond me.
Make seasonal work permits easy to get and make it easy for people to leave, instead of the current IIRIRA mandatory 10 year bar which incentives people to stay in the black economy.
Or if you're Trump, just fire missiles at things. For all you know some of the people killed on that boat were victims of trafficking themselves.
Ask someone else. I believe that labor should have the same free movement privileges as capital, so that the provider of said labor can maximize their economic opportunity.
No kudos for falsely putting words in my mouth. Every time I think something's beneath you you manage to surprise me.
It's a simple concept: to the extent that capital is allowed to move freely across borders, so should labor. That doesn't argue for the abolition of nations of borders, but the removal of unecessary friction on natural market flows.
> The war on drugs was prosecuted through law enforcement means inside the U.S., focused on controlling drugs.
That isn't the whole story, not by a long shot.
Plenty of Latin American countries collaborated on this with the United States and there were DEA personnel in many of those countries, some stationed permanently, others on shorter tours mainly involved in educating local LE. In Colombia for instance your chances of being interviewed by US DEA officer when leaving the country were pretty good. Even today they have plenty of representation outside of the USA:
Because that's worked out so well the last time...