Approaching Societal Change

This subject came to me, while sitting and waiting for a daughter to get her annual checkup prior to school. It reflects the area that I live in - but also the area where many of us live - problems are similar everywhere we look.  Is the Federal Government failing to secure our borders? Is the question that simple, since we are the shining example of self-government to the rest of the world - or at least we like to think we are. I'll have to figure out my thesis statement, but this is the note that I took to myself:

Immigration (refugees) resulting from drug violence in Central American countries feeding a culture in the US that takes care of drug dependent people who may have turned that direction as a result of a failed national drug policy. Wasted resources on marijuana when the real crime lies with over-prescribed pharmaceutical drugs, and failing that homemade bathtub drugs. Combine the above with a health policy that states we will care for these folks because they are poor or uninsured or uninsurable. And should they be unable to work, we will place them upon Social Security Disability and give them Medicaid or Care so we don't have to deal with it ourselves. Yes, these folks are all someone's relative.
Does a solution exist that is consistent with our Constitution, and impacts society great enough to affect change without losing our Democratic principles based upon life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Are we willing to pursue change that will impact our own daily lives? Are we willing to accept that each one of us, as citizens of these United States, is ultimately responsible for creating the change that must happen in order to ensure that 'and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'

Before I can continue, I must address that over-prescribed pharmaceutical drugs are designed by, made through, sold with, pushed on, profited by.....

I must also make clear that we took care of the uninsured long before the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) so please, do not try and point a finger and say "that is the cause" It is not.