And now the ugly big picture.
Tell me, if the government is so concerned with drugs and the safety of the American people, why have they for 30+ years, aided and abetted Mexico and kept the lawless borders unsecured where thousands of tons of drugs enter annually, unabated?
Our government, the Mexican govenrment and the cartels are making hundreds of billions off this epic con-job annually.
So much so people/officials from top to bottom, who are supposed to be in charge of border security and law enforcement, are bribed and bought off to make damn sure those borders remain lawless, and wide open for business.
Since the potential for enemy infiltration (at that time Soviet SPETSNAZ) through the porous southern border was first highlighted as a finding of the fallout of Nifty Nugget in the Carter Administration (yes that is correct the Carter Administration) in 1978 your assessment is the only one that makes sense. The CIA has used drug trafficking to raise large amounts of untraceable cash for various black operations since the early 1950’s at least so what you write only makes sense.