[waxhaw]

You have to read through most of this article to get to the root of the problem - "... the dealers are often Mexican migrant workers, many of them illegal immigrants...". Of course, the article listed by name those relatively few non-illegal-immigrant meth users/dealers. This problem is growing across rural America - everywhere there are large numbers of settled illegal immigrant Hispanics. But I'm not surprised the NYT wrote the article in such a way as to avoid mentioning the huge role illegal immigrants have played in the drug trade.

[sarcasm]

They're just doing the jobs that Americans won't do.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

The Mexicans deal to be sure [and I live in an area with lots of Mexicans] and they are not a bunch to mess with. But it can be bought in any neighborhood & on any street corner from kids & adults you would never suspect. It's like candy out there.

By the time your kids & mine get to the Mexicans for their supply they have been using for years.

We have lived a meth nightmare in our home for years.

Would not wish it on anyone.

[applemac_g4]

Another similarity between the methamphetamine problem in Lovell and in states like Nebraska and Colorado, law enforcement officials say, is that the dealers are often Mexican migrant workers, many of them illegal immigrants, who came to work for low wages on farms or in meatpacking plants or mines.

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This can't be correct. After all, Jorge has informed us that illegal aliens are hardworking, tax-paying, law abiding citizens...just the sort of salt of the earth folks you'd want living next door.