Mexico US cross border crime wave
According to U.S. Home Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, crime along the Mexico and United States should be a major concern for incoming Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona who will replace him.
In 2008, more than 5,300 people were killed along the Southwest border which has been home to drug smugglers for twenty to thirty years. In spite of huge enforcement actions on both sides, the Mexican trade is more active and brazen as their tactics become more sophisticated. New tunnels are continually being excavated and ramps help to get the marijuana across the border.
Now the four largest drug cartels, the Federation, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartell and the Gulf Cartel are working with prison and street gangs in the United States. According to a Congressional report one year ago, increased drug traffic activity was detected in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Steatle and Yakima, Wash.
Marijuana crops are now being grown in the U.S., from Miami to San Diego including in vineyards that have been leased by the cartels in Washington State. Over 6.6 million cannabis plants, mostly grown by the cartels, were found by drug enforcement in 2007, one third more than those destroyed in 2006. In California alone, 2.9 million plants were found by authorities in December 2008.
In spite of the planting done in the U.S. the cartels use smuggling as their main supply route. However, now the cross border activity has brought the violence associated with the drug cartels in Mexico to the U.S. The expectation is that there will be more violence and blood as the cartels vie for dominance in the marijuana trade.
Instead, of course, she's promoted to a cabinet postion. It boils your blood.
Free.
If farmers or drug stores make profits on the stuff they'll lobby our corrupt congressmen to keep it legal. And that's a mistake.
Keep it free
Free and as much as the druggie wants - once he's registered. Hand the stuff out by caring social workers in store fronts like the old welfare offices... Food stamps here - drugs - here.
Loserville.
"Free" bankrupts drug gangs - and takes away casche -- free make drug users pathetic - not glamorous. Free sucks the money and incentives to hook new users.
Free allows cameras to interview the losers - look into their lives and show the world the real story. Free WINS the drug war.
“According to U.S. Home Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, crime along the Mexico and United States should be a major concern for incoming Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona who will replace him.”
Is this the very definition of “chutzpah”?
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