Here’s a convergence between two “victimless” crimes that seem to produce scores of victims. The so-called “immigrant rights” advocates are nothing more than modern day slave masters advocating for the flooding of America with millions of vulnerable and desperate people who will be taken advantage of. Drug legalization advocates ignore both the inherent vileness of drug gangs and the fact that repealing prohibition didn’t make the mafia disappear. Both groups have no concern for the safety of people they help put in danger.

Here’s what happens when poor people are lured here by leftists and open border libertarians who could care less what happens to them while crossing the same desert the criminals they buy their drugs from lurk in:

Two female illegal immigrants from Guatemala said Thursday that they had been raped earlier this week by a group of armed drug smugglers.

The women, ages 18 and 28, were apprehended along with a group 38 earlier this week but didn’t tell anyone about the sexual assaults until Thursday morning while meeting with an assistant U.S. attorney in preparation for a deportation hearing, said Mario Escalante, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

They gave the following account: A group of men dressed in black and carrying backpacks intercepted the group as they were walking through the desert on Monday night. The men pulled the two women aside and sexually assaulted them. One women said a man put a pistol to her head.

Officials notified the Guate-malan Consulate in Phoenix about the incident. The women were still set up for formal removal proceedings, Escalante said.

It’s the second report of women being raped by drug smugglers and third report of violence against women on the desert trails in the past week.

On May 4, three Mexican women, ages 16, 17 and 20, told agents that they had been raped by masked, armed bandits the day before.

On May 6, the Border Patrol encountered two Nicaraguan women, ages 41 and 36, near Milepost 20 on Arivaca Road who were visibly injured and dehydrated.

They said they had been badly beaten by a guide, or coyote, when they asked to slow down, Escalante said.

They were then left behind in the desert.

Let’s be clear. The gun that was held to these women’s head while they were raped, and kept their fellow travelers from intervening, was purchased with drug money. The money you give to people to buy your pot helps rape the illegals you pay slave wages to mow your lawn. That’s not what I call a victimless crime.

Repealing Prohibition won’t solve the problem either. As drug gangs lose their main revenue they’ll use the cache of weapons and funds to move into new territories. From the AZstar:

Drug-fueled home invasions, kidnappings and other violent crimes have surged in Tucson recently, echoing the drug war raging in northern Mexico.

As law enforcement cracks down on smuggling along the border, officials say, traffickers increasingly are turning to more desperate measures to continue their criminal activity.

In some cases, smuggling groups turn on each other, finding it easier to steal from competitors than bring drugs across the border themselves.

And although the violence is most likely to hit those engaged in drug-related activities, there’s always the risk that it will spill over and involve innocent people — a possibility that local law-enforcement agencies are scrambling to confront.

The violence is driven in part by the massive amount of drugs flowing through Arizona, officials say.

Although it’s one of four states along the U.S.-Mexico border, 60 percent of illegal drugs that end up in the country come through Arizona, said Tucson Police Department Capt. Terry Rozema, commander of the multiagency Counter Narcotics Alliance.

Drug trafficking always has been a brutal trade, but lately the violence is on the rise, officials say.

In response, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, now assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol, recently created two border-crime units that target human and drug smugglers in rural areas.

The growing threat in the city prompted the formation last month of a home-invasion unit, staffed with a sergeant, five detectives, a crime analyst and a clerk, said Sgt. Matt Ronstadt, the unit’s supervisor.

“The criminal element recognizes it’s probably easier to obtain a large quantity of narcotics or cash from someone who’s already done the hard work of shipping the product and finding a place to store it,” he said.

In other words, repeal prohibition and allow your local bodegas to sell weed and those bodegas will become death traps for everyone daring to cut into the cartel’s business.

But of course prohibition isn’t stopping the violence either. Mary Anastasia O’Grady has a great article in WSJ that talks about American demand for drugs destabilizing Mexico:

The upshot: Americans underwrite Mexico’s vicious organized crime syndicates. The gringos get their drugs and the Mexican mafia gets weapons, technology and the means to buy off or intimidate anyone who gets in their way. Caught in the middle is a poor country striving to develop sound institutions for law enforcement.

The trouble for Mexico is that, even if it understands that U.S. demand is not going away, it cannot afford to cede large swaths of the country to the drug cartels. Thus Mexican President Felipe Calderón has made confronting organized crime a priority since taking office in December 2006. His attorney general, Eduardo Medina Mora, told me in February that the goal is to reclaim the state’s authority where it has been lost to the mafias.

But after 17 months of engagement, while San Diego students party on, victory remains elusive and the Mexican death toll is mounting. Most of the drug-related killings since Mr. Calderón took office seem to be a result of battles between rival cartels. Still, the escalating violence is troubling. The official death toll attributable to organized crime since the Calderón crackdown began now stands at 3,995. Of that, 1,170 have died this year.

Especially alarming are the number of assassinations among military personnel and municipal, state and federal police officers. The total is 439 for the 17 months and 109 so far this year. Many of these victims have been ordinary police officers whose refusal to be bought off or back off cost them their lives.

But as the murder of police chief Millan makes clear, high rank offers no safety. Two weeks before he was gunned down, Roberto Velasco, the head of the organized crime division of the federal police, was shot in the head. The assailants took his car, which leaves open the possibility that it was a random event, but most Mexicans are not buying that theory. Eleven federal law enforcement agents have been killed in ambushes and executions in the last four weeks alone.

If U.S. law enforcement agencies were losing their finest at such a rate, you can bet Americans would give greater thought to the violence generated by high demand and prohibition. Our friends in Mexico deserve equal consideration.

The only real solution would be for Americans to stop buying so much pot, to boycott the cartels the way we boycott companies whose policies we don’t like. But Americans are spoiled and used to receiving their instant gratification and college aged kids will no more give up getting high to save some Mexican lives than they are likely to not have unprotected sex to avoid catching AIDS. Pot smokers will continue funding the destruction of Mexico, and when the cross border violence becomes intolerable they’ll demand action from the government.

But when we demand action from them, the people that fund the cartels, they’ll always fall back on the “it’s a victimless crime” argument.