Essay about Drug Traffic, A DEA Report

The problem of drugs coming over into the United States from Mexico is not new, but it is serious and in spite of many efforts by American law enforcement and border authorities, it continues day after day. This paper reviews the problem from several perspectives and brings to light attempts the U.S. has made to stop drug trafficking on our border with Mexico. The biggest issue regarding border security is the power of the drug cartels, and the majority of emphasis in this paper is directed towards the cartels.

In this book, Luis Rodriguez deals with a problem that he is always targeted by the police. The reason why Luis is targeted by the police is because he is in a gang, which makes Luis become a bad influence to others. For example, “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on Garvey Boulevard who took our money, all smudged into one.

Rodriquez also feels a distance from the barrio children. Although they also spoke Spanish they were not part of what he considered home. He did not live in the Barrio but rather in a very white neighborhood, “only a block from the biggest, whitest houses,” of Sacramento in the fifties. Due to the location of his home he explains as “an accident of geography” that sent Rodriquez to a school of white children. It was there at school that he first heard his name pronounced in English, and this occurrence made the young child cry. The name Richard was as foreign to him as many other English words, it was the first time he truly understood the difference between home and public.

Furthermore, growing up poor also contributed to Richard Ramirez becoming a serial killer. Richard was surrounded by drugs because of where he lived in Texas. Richard starting smoking marijuana as a 10-year-old and he started doing LSD as a teenager. Richard was sent to live with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband. Roberto, Ruth’s husband, would take Richard to watch women through their windows at night. This experience is what probably led to Richard Ramirez

Everyone growing up has experienced forms of pressure to participate and soon regretting their decisions. Luis Rodriquez is no exception, detailing the extent in his autobiography called Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis Javier Rodriguez, born in El Paso in 1954 and a former Los Lomas Chicano Animal Tribe gang member, has led an extensive life filled with criminal activity to activism in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. When he was just a young teen, Luis Rodriguez joined the Los Lomas Chicano Animal Tribe gang. During his time in the gang, he developed an extensive criminal record, even getting arrested for “assault with intent to commit murder” at only seventeen years old after four people were shot. He was

The country’s borders make the most important part in the process of reducing drug trafficking in the U.S. Drug law enforcement agencies face enormous challenges when it comes to

In the twenty-first century there is a plethora of drugs distributing from Mexico to the United States all the way to Canada causing numerous people to be sentenced to prison, to depart from their families, and to even die. Luckily, there is one law enforcement agency created by the U.S. government to banish these horrible facets, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Breaking down and destroying drug empires, arresting the kingpin leaders of illegal narcotics, and trying to put an end to this terrorizing crime. Drug cartels have always been an enormous issue all across the globe, but the DEA is like the superhero trying to fight

After many hours of being trailed and chased they and also driving to unknown destination evading the cop whose jurisdiction was the town yet now he was following them up in the mountains, they decided to face the cop and ended up killing him. The fear of killing state cop leave alone being a killed by people who are already marginalized is what made Felipe worry or his fate once they find out the

In the first chapter Sergeant Gonzales is saying how if only the brave and cunning Zorro were to step through his door, when his door then opens turns out to only be Don Diego Vega. Don Diego Vega always seems to leave the tavern right before Zorro was about to walk in, then reappears shortly after Zorro leaves. Zorro is always surprised appearing in front of Captain Ramon and mysteriously always gets away. In chapter 15 Zorro burns what he thinks is the only copy of the letter Captain Ramon wrote to the governor.

The character of Demetrio Macias proves to be quite ironic. One facet of his character reveals his determination to find Pancho Villa’s army,

Emilio’s murder had only a few sentences in the newspaper and his uncle Torres was upset about that because the people kind of just brushed it off. Not too long after his nephew’s death, he began to ask around Chicago to try and find out who killed Emilio. Later on, he started to drink a lot and he borrowed two guns. Torres was going to track down his nephew’s killers after the funeral was over. Torres has a criminal history, he was arrested for a stolen car and a gun.

The film opens with Gibson (Gringo) driving a getaway car with a clown mask and his accomplice is in the backseat sounded from American police while heading towards the Mexican border. Gibson crashes through the border fence, and he is arrested by corrupt Mexican police officers, Vasquez and Romero when they find $2 million in the car and Gibson was incarcerated into El Pueblito prison under false charges and keeping the cash for themselves. Now in the film, El Pueblito is described more as a small ghetto town-like than a prison. Then Gibson met a kid who lives with his incarcerated mother. The kid wanted to kill the leader, Javi that runs El Pueblito for killing his father.

On September 11, 2004, Rodolfo, his wife, and two young children were visiting a Culiacán shopping mall. While leaving the mall, escorted by police commander Pedro Pérez Lopez, the family was ambushed by members of Los Negros, assassins for the Sinaloa Cartel. Rodolfo and his wife were killed, the policeman survived.[2]

As the narrator recounts the crime he states the brother “had done much to have someone stop them from killing him”(29).The phrase’s firm, direct voice helps emphasize how the brothers did everything in their power to be caught, yet were never stopped. Through Vicario brother’s efforts to be stopped, Marquez hints toward the doubtful thoughts the brothers felt towards killing a man, as if they knew deep down what they were doing was wrong. Pablo’s hesitant nature is shown as Pedro “dragged him off almost by force in search of their sister's lost honour” (36). The forceful tone of word “dragged” helps illustrate

It is second time this drug lord has escaped from prison. Mexican law enforcement has been put on high alert after this incident. He was serving a 20 year sentence in the prison. A 1 mile tunnel was what he went through to get out of the prison.