Interesting remarks by General Barry McCaffrey, our onetime "drug czar", on the dangers of our dysfunctional immigration and border control policy. Covers the economic impact of what I'd call "high end" and "low end" immigration, impact of our "war on drugs" and huge prison population on the growth of gang activity, Mexican drug cartels, and so on. It's contained in a dispatch by Michael Yon, my favorite military correspondent.
McCaffrey's thoughts resonate with a number of points I've made here on various aspects of immigration policy, and with what I've argued elsewhere on our self-defeating (and hugely expensive) corrections system.
Enjoy!
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