The only infrastructure we need is THE WALL.
Talk about a useless waste of money.
You want to improve immigration add more immigration courts , lawyers , and agents .
Why would a wall be a waste of money?
There are better and cheaper ways to control the border. Also, according to Trump border crossing are down 78% in just the last year without the wall and with very little added resources to the border.
I think drugs are a huge problem. Currently we lose more than 50,000 Americans from overdoses because of drugs. It's at record proportions in cities and counties across the country. That's not to mention how many were saved from OD"s.
It seems like this stuff is everywhere and it's coming from somewhere.
How America’s opioid epidemic began
The opioid epidemic began in the 1990s, when doctors became increasingly aware of the burdens of pain. Pharmaceutical companies saw an opportunity, and pushed doctors — with
misleading marketing about the safety and efficacy of the drugs — to prescribe opioids to treat all sorts of pain. Doctors, many exhausted by dealing with difficult-to-treat pain patients, complied — in some states, writing enough prescriptions to
fill a bottle of pills for each resident.
The drugs proliferated, making America
the world’s leader in opioid prescriptions. As Stanford drug policy expert Keith Humphreys
previously noted, “Consider the amount of standard daily doses of opioids consumed in Japan. And then double it. And then double it again. And then double it again. And then double it again. And then double it a fifth time. That would make Japan No. 2 in the world, behind the United States.”
First, there were the pharmaceutical companies. Wanting to make as much money as possible, these companies marketed their drugs as safe and effective for treating pain — even though the
evidence for opioids shows that, particularly for chronic pain, the
risks outweigh the benefits in most, but not all, cases. Many doctors and patients were convinced by this campaign. (Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and some of its higher-ups
later paid more than $600 million in fines for their misleading marketing claims, and opioid makers and distributors are now facing
many more lawsuits on similar grounds.)
Then there were doctors. On one hand, doctors were under a lot of pressure from advocacy groups (some pharma-backed), medical associations, and
government agencies to treat pain more seriously. On the other hand, doctors faced increasing pressure to see and treat patients quickly and efficiently.
The opioid epidemic, explained