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Interstate transportation of marijuana is illegal in the US.[1] But why is DHS doing this? Stopping interstate drug trafficking is DEA's job, and DEA is in the

by Animats 24d ago

Interstate transportation of marijuana is illegal in the US.[1] But why is DHS doing this? Stopping interstate drug trafficking is DEA's job, and DEA is in the Justice Department, not Homeland Security. Homeland Security should be looking for illegal aliens and labor contractors who move them. [1] https://federal-criminal.com/drugs/marijuana-cross-border-transportation-legal-implications/ https://federal-criminal.com/drugs/marijuana-cross-border-tr...

AngryData 24d ago
Because they want the money. The reason drug crimes are so heavily enforced is because they come with large fines and fees and monetary rewards for the department that arrests them and the courts that prosecute them. They use it as a funding source. Look at what fines and fees a court gets when they successfully prosecute a murder versus a drug crime. Look at the grants the feds give towards police drug enforcement departments. DHS wants that easy cash.
- sailfast 24d ago
  They already have a multi 100 billion dollar slush fund from Congress. If they’re doing it for the money then things have really gotten out of hand with internal DHS budgets.
- abirch 24d ago
  Don't forget about civil forfeiture where the government sues the alleged drug money.
woodgala 24d ago
Or punish the companies that hire them knowingly. Why punish the immigrants at all? If they weren’t given jobs they wouldn’t come.
- pocksuppet 24d ago
  The point is to get workers for low costs, the purpose of the system is what it does. They need the workers, and they need the workers to be scared. If they had no workers they'd have no workers, and if the workers weren't scared they'd have to pay proper wages.
  - ProllyInfamous 24d ago
    >they need the workers to be scared See also: US healthcare (typically) being tied to your employer. ...you're not going anywhere, worker.
pessimizer 24d ago
"Homeland Security" isn't about homeland security, that's a meaningless propaganda name. It's the result of an evil initiative to coordinate all of America's Federal police and secret police agencies that was created after 9/11. It's not CBP/ICE, it sits above them (and everything else.) It was something that had been warned against by everyone from the beginning of the US having secret police forces, and 9/11 was the excuse to do it. Before DHS, the FBI and the CIA (for example) had to go through protocols to share information with each other. This was good because the CIA aren't allowed to do some things that the FBI is allowed to do, and vice versa. Now they're really all one organization, although they have internal turf battles caused by power struggles between ambitious individuals.
Computer0 23d ago
I would argue that if DHS has not joined the ranks of “Rogue agencies” we have in the US, they are on the verge.
- halJordan 23d ago
  What rogue agency? What agency hasn't immediately and stridefully buckled to the political pressure of the lawful appointees from this admin?

by Animats 24d ago

AngryData 24d ago

Because they want the money. The reason drug crimes are so heavily enforced is because they come with large fines and fees and monetary rewards for the department that arrests them and the courts that prosecute them. They use it as a funding source. Look at what fines and fees a court gets when they successfully prosecute a murder versus a drug crime. Look at the grants the feds give towards police drug enforcement departments. DHS wants that easy cash.

sailfast 24d ago
They already have a multi 100 billion dollar slush fund from Congress. If they’re doing it for the money then things have really gotten out of hand with internal DHS budgets.
abirch 24d ago
Don't forget about civil forfeiture where the government sues the alleged drug money.

woodgala 24d ago

Or punish the companies that hire them knowingly. Why punish the immigrants at all? If they weren’t given jobs they wouldn’t come.

pocksuppet 24d ago
The point is to get workers for low costs, the purpose of the system is what it does. They need the workers, and they need the workers to be scared. If they had no workers they'd have no workers, and if the workers weren't scared they'd have to pay proper wages.
- ProllyInfamous 24d ago
  >they need the workers to be scared See also: US healthcare (typically) being tied to your employer. ...you're not going anywhere, worker.

pessimizer 24d ago

"Homeland Security" isn't about homeland security, that's a meaningless propaganda name. It's the result of an evil initiative to coordinate all of America's Federal police and secret police agencies that was created after 9/11. It's not CBP/ICE, it sits above them (and everything else.) It was something that had been warned against by everyone from the beginning of the US having secret police forces, and 9/11 was the excuse to do it. Before DHS, the FBI and the CIA (for example) had to go through protocols to share information with each other. This was good because the CIA aren't allowed to do some things that the FBI is allowed to do, and vice versa. Now they're really all one organization, although they have internal turf battles caused by power struggles between ambitious individuals.

Computer0 23d ago

I would argue that if DHS has not joined the ranks of “Rogue agencies” we have in the US, they are on the verge.

halJordan 23d ago
What rogue agency? What agency hasn't immediately and stridefully buckled to the political pressure of the lawful appointees from this admin?