I find the choice of wording in the title most curious. "Asylum seekers"... who, exactly, are they? I do not for one moment believe that all the unlawful aliens are seekers of political asylum. That means the actual seekers are a subset of the total, giving rise to the question of what proportion are genuine, vis-à-vis those who have come unlawfully for other, unclear reasons. My strong suspicion is that they are a vanishingly small percentage.
That said, the wording of the title seems to be peddling something which, had the wording more closely reflected the reality, people would not be buying.
As to the problem, the solution is simple, if not quite altogether palatable from certain standpoints: decriminalize all drugs. "Oh my GOD, NO!!!" many will say, citing the horrors. Indeed it would be so... for a while. And I say allow those who would destroy themselves to do so. Is it horrible? It is, but warring against those hell-bent to engage in such matters is a fruitless endeavor, as the past fifty years of the so-called "drug war" has demonstrated in such stark and glaring terms. Those who support the prohibitions seem to come from three main camps, all of which are sadly mistaken. The one honestly believes in the wrongness of drugs and that because it is wrong, it must be prohibited. These people are opposed to liberty, much as some of them might deny it. The other are those who see no other way of saving their own from the threat of addiction and all that follows therefrom, and are hanging on to the force response like grim death. They are in a frenzy, terrified, and the more they fear the prospect, the harder they cleave to force as the solution. And of course the third group are those who profit from the trade. Decriminalization would spell the end of their profits.
Decriminalize and eat the bitter consequence of unleashing that particular liberty upon a population that is generally unprepared for it. Allow hundreds of thousands or even millions to die, no safety nets whatsoever, and clean that gene pool which has turned so deep and emerald a green. Those with basic sense will learn and our world will become a better place in the longer run, the price of our former stupidity and corruption being the lives of so many others who chose foolishly.
We've been insulated from hard, cold reality going on 100 years in terms of such personal choices and the consequences that usually follow forthwith. It is time for America and the rest of humanity in the so-called "first world" to grow the hell up and cop some responsibility for ourselves as individuals. Want to inject heroin? By all means do so, but when you OD and nobody comes to your rescue, make your peace with God and accept whatever it is that comes next. And if you survive, take what you will from the experience. Learn. Don't learn. Nobody from "government" is going to aid and abet you, nor will they toss you into a cell. You are free to live, or to destroy yourself as you please. But bear in mind that under such conditions of liberty, which must exist not in lopsided fashion, but in balanced completeness, when you bring harm to others, you will be held feet to the fire to account for what you have done, and your state of incapacitation would not be used in a court to mitigate your culpability as it tends now to be, but rather to aggravate the severity of your actions.
Liberty is the only viable solution, and liberty demands responsibility and accountability by all, upon all.
So I say let the fur fly, come what may. What we are experiencing now is living death.
