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Well, I'm less directly impacted by illegal border crossing, so I'm a bit ignorant in that area. My guess is most of the drug problem in Oregon is homegrown. By the time people get that far north, they are probably either here legally, or working in the fields.
I imagine being in close proximity to a country with more overt corruption, those "values" impact the border areas to a greater extent.
That said, I don't care where someone is from; I want to treat them as decently as they allow.
Being a free-trader, I don't care where drugs originate. The problem is that we create the demand in the first place. Don't know how to solve that one, but simply locking people up with others who have drug addictions is not a good solution. A good solution would be something like instilling a sense of community and meaning in the lives of individuals.
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