Of course Mexico wants open borders, they have drugs to run.

Wouldn’t want anyone competing with the CIA’s operation, right? Or stop being xenophobic while we are at it.

It is CIAs operation. Cartels own Mexico, CIA owns the Cartels.

Close the border, stop the flow, and criple the CIA.

Call me crazy, but I think there might be an easier way to control the CIA.

Or even reducing the profitability of smuggling drugs by legalizing some of the most popular ones or something. But I guess then they would also lose the Jim Crow 2.0 and would need to come up with something else.

And you think the cartels will just disappear just because you’ve given them concessions?

If legal alternatives undercut their main income stream, yes, they’ll disappear. Or rather, they’ll fall apart as their resources become scarce and the ‘middle managers’ being cut out of the remaining money start fighting the higher ups and each other.

Ending alcohol prohibition didn’t strengthen the bootleggers. It put them out of business as Budweiser ate their lunch.

What makes you think they won’t just sell their product legally?

They’ll almost certainly try to (and some people who are currently involved may see some success). But they won’t have their de facto monopoly anymore. And these organizations are rife with internal corruption (shocking, I know); they aren’t being run efficiently.

Without their monopoly profits, they aren’t going to be able to afford the hit squads, the bribed law enforcement, or the silence of the people who know where the bodies are buried (often literally).

Crime won’t magically fall to zero overnight, but these organizations will not be having a good time.

But you’re still giving them concessions while the population pays it just because you haven’t been able to deal with them properly