“The Obama administration has acknowledged the negative role that the US plays in fuelling drug-related violence - from the demand for illegal drugs by American consumers to the trafficking of US-bought weapons into Mexico.”
Notice how the smuggling of illegal aliens at the price of $2,000 per head is not mentioned.
Your way off, it is $5599 a head now and going after the drug related stuff is great because the mess the drugs make out of the people taking them is horrible.
2k was probably 7 years ago.