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The San Antonio driver, whose name was not released, was arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents in El Paso.
Well, it's obvious that the driver was an illegal alien and wasn't from San Antonio. Otherwise, Immigration and Customs wouldn't have been called in.
The male driver and a female passenger, neither of whom were identified, were arrested and taken into custody of the Drug Enforcement Administra-tion.
One DEA and the other Immigration. See what I mean?

And some $2.1 million in marijuana seized?

"More than anything else it would be the intensified inspection process put into place after September 11 that is responsible for this. Terrorism is the focus, but our greatest dividend on the border has been the increased drug seizures." Roger Maier U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection

"More than anything else it would be the intensified inspection process put into place after September 11 that is responsible for this. Terrorism is the focus, but our greatest dividend on the border has been the increased drug seizures." Roger Maier U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection

I don't know exactly what a great dividend this is. So far, it doesn't appear to be doing anything to price or availability where I live, but I do see it causing something else. From what I've been reading there are a lot of Mexican drug dealers who are moving their operations across the border and growing their dope in the U.S. so they don't have to smuggle it across the border. Now, they can't get away with growing huge fields of weed here like they did in Mexico so they have their underlings camp out in our national forests growing several well hidden, well cared for smaller plots of much more powerful marijuana. Since they can't grow quantity like they did south of the border, they are going higher quality so they can still bring in the same kind of profits as before.

Not only are we starting to see more high grade outdoor weed, but the indoor hydro stuff is really becoming popular too. That's the stuff they say is not your daddy's marijuana, the really strong stuff. If the supply of cheap Mexican drys up, the demand for this type of marijuana will go up correspondingly and lets just say it will be a realy good time to be in the grow light industry.

So whether all these seizures of cheap Mexican marijuana is such a great dividend or not depends on how you look at it. If you want the overall average THC content of marijuana to get a lot higher here, then I suppose you could look at this as a dividend.