To "identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal organizations;" who could possibly object to that?

The description of such a lofty mission is meant to be the actual role of the "Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel on the Southwest Border today" according to General James L. Jones the National Security Advisor to President Obama.

"Rather than seeking to deploy an arbitrary number of National Guard personnel" Obama's National Security Advisor extolled the "unprecedented resources" dedicated by the administration to border protection and law enforcement.

After protesting Congress' "unwarranted interference with the Commander-in-Chief's responsibilities to direct the employment of our Armed Forces" General Jones warned it would even compromise the ability to "bear the burden of our Nation for fighting two wars."

In a final attempt to ally the south border menace hysteria, the top National Security Advisor claimed some successes such as "significant seizures of illegal drugs…record seizures of illegal weapons and bulk cash".   Interestingly enough, the General provided no actual figures, and for a very good reason.

When President George W. Bush deployed a maximum 6,000 troops between 2006 and 2008 the kudos during their mission were an annual average of 54,000 "illegal" immigrants arrested, the seizure of $23,000 in cash and 102 metric tons of illicit drugs.

Those figures pale into insignificance when compared against the actual magnitude of the drug and weapons trade and money laundering.  The U.S. consumes 1,735 metric tons of drugs, 17 times more than what was seized, including in order of tonnage: marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin.

The drug trade alone generates $36 billion a year, money that freely surfs in and out of the U.S.' financial system, and the troop surge in 3 years seized $69,000?

Politicians have a knack of astutely invoking grandiose goals such as the "fighting and dismantling" of criminal organizations.  Then they astutely claim vague successes such as "significant" or "record" seizures of drugs and money, and we inevitably have to ask, whom are they so brazenly trying to deceive?

The sole objective of "securing our borders" is to keep brown people out. 

Neither President Barack Obama or his predecessor George W. Bush, actually combat America's addition to drugs, and its penchant for selling powerful weapons to criminal organizations, all in the name of its infatuation with money.

Right now the American public and the politicians that court it are far more concerned with the feigned menace of immigration.