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To the editor:
I have a few things I would like to see happen at the southern border:
1. Finish the wall that President Trump started.
2. Get legislation enacted that no person is admitted into the U. S. unless they report to a normal entrance on a normal thoroughfare with a guarded gate. Anyone entering any other way is automatically rejected.
3. Anyone caught smuggling any type of contraband articles of substances is immediately taken into custody and jailed, charges filed and remain without bail until the trial.
4. Let us declare a real war on drugs and treat any foreign persons caught smuggling drugs as a foreign combatant and tale them into custody and imprison them as prisoners of war until we declare the war on drugs ended. If they resist in any way they are subdued by any means possible including deadly force, and if they turn and run they are shot.
I know this may sound harsh but this is what would happen on a typical battlefield. If you want to stop the many deaths happening to the citizens of this country because of the drugs coming across the border you have to make the cost to those engaged in the smuggling so high that the money they make for doing it is not worth the risk to their well being. I am not concerned about what happens to the smugglers, they can choose not to do it.
Stephen Sellers.
Lewistown