The War on Drugs fuels the cartels and corruption that they flee. The US is manufacturing a crisis and then complaining about it. But "patriots" like Thiel will make sure to profit from it.
Providing security assistance would like like what?
And while ending The War would not magically erase the existence of the the cartels, it would be a good start. Corruption itself needs to be addressed or nothing will change.
You wrote this and it sounded like you were endorsing an implicit open border policy. Did you have some more intermediate solution in mind? Recall that we do presently have a legal pathway for asylum seekers to immigrate to the US.
> Providing security assistance would like like what?
We already do this. US agencies frequently cooperate with their counterparts in Mexico and elsewhere.
Between the War on Drugs and agricultural dumping we have deeply damaged their economies and political stability.
https://nacla.org/article/mexico-cost-us-dumping
(oh, and let's also not forget how US Big Ag utilizes these vulnerable migrants to maximize their profits).