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P.O, senators and judge, I stand as Senator Ortega to make the claim that we should not pay people to find information about drug dealers because these ”helpers” have been known for not being the most reliable. REASON adds that from 2010 to 2016, these informants have not been known for being reliable at all , so we will just be losing money which will in return harm the economy. Besides the fact of having to find a source of where to get the money from, even if we do get one do we know how much money we are going to use and how harmful it will be to the economy. According to CNN, this does not work 52% of the time. As a matter of fact, we are talking about criminals giving us information and us paying them, after all, this money delinquents …show more content…
It should be eliminated immediately to prevent further waste of taxpayers’ dollars and abuses of travelers’ constitutional rights. One should ask themselves, “Where is this money come from because USA is already in debt”. Even though, many may believe the benefits will outweigh the costs, keep in thought that this will put citizens in danger and who wants to see people suffer? Why should the government even be taking the chance to fund people who are most likely criminals? Besides, there is no way to know if the program is even effective, since the DEA only keeps track of situations in which a search leads to an arrest or a seizure, and even then only limited information according to Los Angeles Daily News. While ostensibly seeking illegal drugs, which are a relatively rare find, or, more commonly, the proceeds of drug transactions, such searches also result in seizures of cash from innocent people, not to mention the harassment of countless other passengers who are not carrying drugs or large sums of cash as stated by to the Orange County Register. Moreover, usually, agents seize large sums of cash from travelers and then send them on