Our 50State Border Crisis, Howard G. Buffett
Our 50State Border Crisis, Howard G. Buffett
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Our 50-State Border Crisis
How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America

Author: Howard G. Buffett

Narrator: Matt Kugler

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/03/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts and migrants into drug mules -- and killing us in record numbers.

Politicians talk about a border crisis and an opioid crisis as separate issues. To Buffett, a landowner on the U.S. border with Mexico and now a sheriff in Illinois, these are intimately connected. Ineffective border policies not only put residents in border states like Texas and Arizona in harm's way, they put American lives in states like Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont at risk.

Mexican cartels have grown astonishingly powerful by exploiting both the gaps in our border security strategy and the desperation of migrants -- all while profiting enormously off America's growing addiction to drugs. The solution isn't a wall. In this groundbreaking book, Buffett outlines a realistic, effective, and bi-partisan approach to fighting cartels, strengthening our national security, and tackling the roots of the chaos below the border.

About Howard G. Buffett

Howard G. Buffett is chairman and CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. He has served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger and served on the corporate boards of the Coca-Cola Company, Con Agra Foods, and Archer Daniels Midland, an American global food processing and commodities trading corporation. He serves on the corporate board of Berkshire Hathaway, an American multinational conglomerate holding company. A farmer, businessman, elected official, photographer, and philanthropist, he has dedicated his life to finding solutions for some of the world’s most serious and intractable problems, including hunger, conflict, wildlife trafficking, border security, and public-safety challenges. Among his many awards and accolades, he has received the Order of the Aztec Eagle Award, the highest honor bestowed on a foreign citizen by the Mexican government. He is a sworn volunteer auxiliary deputy for the Macon County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois and a Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Volunteer Deputy Commander in Arizona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dana on July 19, 2018

As with most issues that you think you understand from what you read and hear in the media, the real situation on the ground is infinitely more complex. This book does a good job of shining a light on the difficulty dealing with the human criminal minds of cartels, coyotes and traffickers that are e......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 27, 2019

If you ever wondered what you might do if you had essentially unlimited money you could take a page (or a book) from Mr. Howard G. Buffett (a son of the 'Oracle of Omaha'). I guess he could be sitting around on tropical islands or in the south of France surrounded by curvaceous beauties, and perhaps......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on January 12, 2019

This is a sober take on the border crisis that presents a balanced analysis of why securing the Southern border matters to all. While political attention has largely directed us to associating the border with drug and human trafficking, which covers a solid page count here, Buffett also reports on t......more

Goodreads review by Libby on June 13, 2022

I had expectations that it was going to be a bit anti-immigration, even though the people who recommended it to me said it changed their perspective on immigration and were more in favor of it. I was curious by what this book contained. The author focuses on the need to protect our border, from cart......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 06, 2024

Comprehensive, fair, and frank. He evades most partisanship in an effort at real solutions. I do think he under-evaluated the demand side, especially on the issue of Substance Use Disorders. It's not just that big pharma hooked people on opiates, drugs in general are coping mechanisms for other unre......more


Quotes

"[Buffett's] argument is not doctrinaire.... In all this, he urges probity and diplomacy... A useful, reasonable work of civilian policy analysis sure to invite discussion and even controversy."—Kirkus