Immigration was at a high point in the 80s under Reagan since the high tech boom required lots of cheaper labor. It has always been used as a cudgel of exploitation and to divide the working class using xenophobic rhetoric.

There is now a narrative out there that “illegals” are bringing in synthetic opiates. It may be true. When I floated the possibility that given the intelligence services history of funding off the books operations via drug running that it might be happening now in this case, it was met with silence.