Border Security

[we vs us]

Well, Jan Brewer has her first beheading, and it wasn't in the desert, it was in a suburb. The perpatrators came in through California and exacted revenge for possibly stealing money or drugs, but committed the crime and were able to flee to Mexico after the fact. It's not know if they are cartel members, the results are still pending the investigation.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2010/10/29/20101029chandler-beheading-case-1030.html

I'm interested as to how a stricter immigration policy will prevent what seem like drug-related attacks.  It's obvious that the drug cartels have no problem operating across national borders, whether to transport the goods, set up what are essentially logistics networks, sell the product, and enforce their markets (yeah, by brutally killing people, en masse); why would treating illegal immigrants as the equivalent of violent felons effect the cartels' ability in the long run to pursue their business?

I ask this because I think illegal immigration and drug violence get conflated all too often, and keep us from putting together effective policy for each. 

[borman09]

Obviously, it would be better for the federal government to secure the border and enforce federal immigration laws so that states do not have to attempt to deal with the problem on their own.In mind that, Senator McCain and I have proposed a 10-point plan to better secure the border and enforce existing laws.