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Mexican drug cartels are coming to America
NewHavenRegister.com ^ | April 01, 2013 | N/A

Posted on 04/01/2013 4:20:08 AM PDT by raybbr

CHICAGO — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels' move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering.

Cartel activity in the U.S. is certainly not new. Starting in the 1990s, the ruthless syndicates became the nation's No. 1 supplier of illegal drugs, using unaffiliated middlemen to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and heroin beyond the border or even to grow pot here.

But a wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. Cartel operatives are suspected of running drug-distribution networks in at least nine non-border states, often in middle-class suburbs in the Midwest, South and Northeast.

"It's probably the most serious threat the United States has faced from organized crime," said Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office.

(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Mexico; Politics/Elections
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To: raybbr
Armed by the obama admin..

Hussein wants his cut of the action.

21 posted on 04/01/2013 5:36:55 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: Moonman62
Can't possibly be true. The MSM has already fingered “white supremacist” organizations and identified the murder weapon as being an “assault rifle.” Jeepers, they're good! Got the case all wrapped up through “unnamed sources” in 24 hrs.!
22 posted on 04/01/2013 5:37:29 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: 1010RD

legalize murder and rape and they will go away

/sarcasm


23 posted on 04/01/2013 5:51:51 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Moonman62

But still Napolitano says we are safe, and Obama wants more and more Mexicans in this country.

I know they are right because they are liberal elites.

Theyw ant us to give up our guns so we will be at the Mercy of the benevelent Cartels.


24 posted on 04/01/2013 5:52:40 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: unixfox
Our pathetic government just doesn't want to admit it because they may offend someone.

The War on Drugs has been going on for 42 years. The longest war in the history of the United States.

Why can't it be won?

Corruption.

25 posted on 04/01/2013 5:57:55 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: Venturer
Reminds me of Star Trek and Borg ... had a democRAT leader say this point blank about twelve years ago when was discussing a matter. And I quote, “You will be assimilated.” One cannot deal with people of such mindset. Thanks RINOs, you are helping the Borg.
26 posted on 04/01/2013 5:58:57 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Moonman62

Really, you got a source for that?


27 posted on 04/01/2013 6:07:15 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: raybbr; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?"

28 posted on 04/01/2013 6:12:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: raybbr

Obamanation Counterculture File.


29 posted on 04/01/2013 6:14:08 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: 1010RD
It’s time to try the alternative - personal responsibility. Get government out of the prohibition business.

That's a good one. If you are going to rely on "personal responsibility" then you HAVE to end the welfare state first. ZERO payments to anyone.

30 posted on 04/01/2013 6:14:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Fai Mao

Exactly. California elects every liberal running for office, but they don’t legalize marijuana? Only because illegal drug money runs the Democrat party. They aren’t going to give up that money.


31 posted on 04/01/2013 6:18:58 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: a fool in paradise

32 posted on 04/01/2013 6:24:42 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron. No, they are both.)
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To: a fool in paradise

We’ll need to make alcohol illegal again until the welfare state is dismantled. It’s the number one drug of choice, after all.


33 posted on 04/01/2013 6:33:45 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: unixfox; Rich21IE
You sure about that?

Maybe not.

34 posted on 04/01/2013 6:35:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Wolfie

Good luck with that.


35 posted on 04/01/2013 6:37:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: raybbr
Mexican drug cartels are coming to America

Coming, my a**. They're here, walking the streets among us as part of the huge illegal immigrant population and protected by claims of racism if even questioned.

In addition, members of DOJ, HS, ICE, Congress and myriad state and local officials are on their payroll.

The joining of forces by the two political crime syndicates (Democrats & Republicans) and the Mexican drug cartels is a marriage made in heaven.

Those that can't be bought off will be intimidated into silence or inaction!!! A few car bombs, murders of family members (wives & kids) will have even the bravest toeing the line.

36 posted on 04/01/2013 6:43:12 AM PDT by varon (USA Nationalist)
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To: raybbr

Legalize it. Problem solved.


37 posted on 04/01/2013 7:14:19 AM PDT by Force of Truth (Intelligence and virtue are preferable in a candidate, but I'd much rather he or she be stingy.)
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To: raybbr

Chicago. Go figure.


38 posted on 04/01/2013 7:15:15 AM PDT by Force of Truth (Intelligence and virtue are preferable in a candidate, but I'd much rather he or she be stingy.)
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To: TYVets
The War on Drugs has been going on for 42 years. The longest war in the history of the United States.

Why can't it be won?

Corruption.

What enables corruption? Big money. What does the War on Drugs put in criminal hands? Big money. The War on Drugs inescapably contains the seeds of its own failure - as did Prohibition before it.

39 posted on 04/01/2013 7:30:12 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: Fai Mao; 1010RD
The War on Drugs is an abject failure. In the same way Prohibition took a bunch of loser mopes and turned them into millionaire crime bosses, the War on Drugs has created billion dollar drug mafias.

It’s time to try the alternative - personal responsibility. Get government out of the prohibition business.

Yep I agree. But, at this point legalization will not work because the Cartels won’t give up the monopoly

Rumrunners didn't willingly give up their monopoly - it was taken from them by the free market, a more powerful force than any government (at least, any government that this Land of the Free should tolerate).

40 posted on 04/01/2013 7:35:10 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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