This is old news. Illegals have CONTROLLED sales and production of MJ and meth in Oregon for years. Their just doing the jobs Americans won't.
The President said that again in his press conference today. Twice.
He also reused his line about "family values not stopping at the Rio Grande".
He's certainly got a one track mind about this topic.
Yes, it's old news to people who live around it, but the rest of the country seems oblivious. Here's some more.
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The multibillion-dollar Mexican cartels have discovered it's safer and more profitable to grow marijuana in the United States than to try to smuggle it across the border, he said. Instead, they're often importing guards and handing them firearms with orders to shoot at anyone coming by.
They're also branching into methamphetamine production, often using what authorities have dubbed "super labs." And this summer authorities for the first time discovered 40,000 opium poppies growing in a remote area of the Sierra National Forest bordering Yosemite National Park. The poppy plants originated in Mexico, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Richard Meyer said Monday.
Three-fourths of the marijuana gardens discovered by California authorities this year were on public lands like state and national parks and forests. As recently as 2001, the majority of plants were seized from private land.
California's recent harvest season was one of the most violent in years.
In just one deadly week in September, law enforcement officials in Northern California fatally shot four armed guards protecting marijuana plantations. San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies were shot at as they entered a garden; a hunter walking near a marijuana grove in Los Padres National Forest was shot at by three men armed with automatic weapons, and guards tending a Ventura County garden shot at a backcountry hunter.
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http://www.theava.com/03/1224-marijuana.html
So now they're gettin ta be organized labor and replacin the old dope smokin cowboys with milkin machines, right???
Welcome back to tha wild... wild... WEST!!! (git along little dubies)