Sam Quinones

The United States agency of drugs have discovered that for all of the illegal drugs consumed in the nation has been transported by the Mexican cartels. “U.S. federal officials say that the mexican cartels operate in dozens of U.S. cities and analysts say they are moving to consolidate their control of the entire supply chain of illegals drugs”(Schwartz, 1). The government of the United States have been conducting the investigation to now if the cartels are north. Many big cities today have a piece of the cartel organization working there and also producing drugs to distribute within the city. According to the investigation done by the DEA and U.N officials “Mexican cartels have established command - and - control centers to orchestrate cocaine shipments by sea and air along the still wild caribbean coast with the help of local authorities”(Booth, 2). All though that the cartel are moving to the United States they are still leaving command center in mexico to conduct shipments by ground or any other shipments overseas. The cartel is able to transport such quantities of drugs with help of the local authorities and other corrupt government officials.

Brief History of Smuggling Across the Border from Mexico Author Peter Andreas explains that a "wide range of smuggling practices" has been part of the "cross-border economic exchange since the nineteenth century," and hence the present-day smuggling of drugs across the border into the United States is not at all a new phenomenon (Andreas, 2012, p. 29). In fact Andreas explains that the economic relationship between the United States and Mexico "…was founded on smuggling," and today (as drugs move from south to north) things are opposite of what they were two hundred or so years ago when the smuggling went from north to south (Andreas, 29).

There is a major heroin epidemic in the United States, and most of it is imported from Mexico. We need to keep the drugs out of our county and away from our youth. Police and detectives are working hard to stop drug use, but what good is it if the drugs are coming from a different country, where we have no control over? Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are involved in some sort of crime in the United States, and 25 percent of the jailed population are illegal in the United States. That means that taxpayers are paying for illegal immigrants to live in a jail cell.

order to get these drugs into the U.S. Drug smuggling has been an issue in the United States since the 1960s and the Border Patrol has made many efforts to stop drugs from crossing our borders. The Purpose of the Border Patrol is to secure and keep our borders safe. Recently their focus has been on illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Drug smuggling has become an increasing issue and the efforts of the Border Patrol are being pushed to stop these illegal activities. The influx of drugs into the U.S. has many effects on our country as a whole and as smugglers get creative in finding new methods to get around the Border Patrol, it becomes harder for them to stop it. This may be why it seems too easy to get drugs across the border. With new techniques of smuggling it allows for more drugs to enter the U.S. and it leave the Border Patrol on their toes and on a constant lookout for these new techniques.

Mexico’s Drug War Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today. Illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production, distribution, packaging, and sale of illegal substances. Although today’s "War on Drugs" is a modern phenomenon, drug problems have been a common problem throughout history. The market for illegal drugs is massive, when we consider the estimated global drug trade value is worth $321 billion (Vulliamy). The most drug trafficking happens on the border between Mexico and the United States. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, “Our neighbor is the largest consumer of drugs in the world. And everybody wants to sell him drugs through our door and our window”

Despite the effort of the immigrants, the wall will make it more difficult for them to cross into the United States. Priscilla Alvarez, an assistant editor for The Atlantic, explains, "For example, the San Diego sector, where the prototypes have been built, [apprehension numbers] dropped from 560,000 in 1992 to

Drugs continue to pour into the united states despite all of the efforts from the Drug Enforcement Administration, border patrol, Of course a wall won 't prevent every drug to stop pouring into our country. But it will most definitely make it harder on drug dealers. Most of all the deadly drugs that come into the United States across the vast 2,000 mile long land border between the US and Mexico. Mexican drug cartels make an estimated $19-$29 billion a year on drug sales in the United States. So they will do anything they have to do to make smuggling drugs past the border possible. And when they enter the border they don 't just bring drugs with them. The confrontations with the drug cartels has took too many lives, due to the confrontations with the drug cartels involving territory with other dealers as well as the attempts to

So how will a wall stop this massive drug enterprise? It won’t and never will, but if the wall won’t stop them then what will? To solve this issue the US and Mexican government need to work together. Since 2006 the two countries caught or killed 33 out of 37 of the most dangerous drug lords but each drug lord that is caught or killed the rest learned from their mistakes and adapted. Despite being forced to adapt there’s one thing they refuse to change about themselves, their national pride. Drug lords are deeply patriotic and very active in local communties by funding and creating local soccer teams, building schools, and inviting everyone in the community to huge holiday parties. By doing this they kill two birds, they help their own communtiy and gain positive public opinon. After gaining the trust of the people they use that to sponser select politicains. The Mexican people are deeply patriotic so when a politician is being sponsered by the people that are building and improving their country the politician is almost guarnteed to win. The Mexican people are already against the wall and if a wall is built a surge of national pride ripple throughout the country and give the cartel the chance to seize even more power and

many critics point out the illegal drugs are smuggled across our nation especially the Southwestern border and it is in wholesale quantity that the flow of illegal border crosser. Although it has been reduced in recent years, it is still significant problem for border security. Current administration takes the opposite side of this. They are saying that "they are working with Mexico government through the' Twenty first century border initiative', to improve coordination in planning, financing, building, and operating bi-national infrastructure; to enhance cross-border commerce and ties while managing our common threats; and to augment law enforcement cooperation to disrupt 'criminal flows' and enhance public safety. Also, The Administration is working with Canada to enhance joint law enforcement efforts and bolster cross-border security operations. Through the 'United States – Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan', Canadian and United State law enforcement are forging new ways of sharing resources, personnel, and information to uncover and disrupt threats that endanger the security of both the United States and Canada."( Border Security: DHS Progress and Challenges in Securing the U.S. Southwest and Northern Borders). It is creating a twenty first century border which is more secure now than it has ever been. Neither side in this debate seems interest in defining what a secure border means and without a definition of secure border, it is hard to say who is

Borders are ubiquitous; some are physical, others are not; some are rigid, others are not, but all have the same purpose, that is, to prevent two groups from interacting in a particular way. The border that exists between the United States and Mexico is no different, as author Leslie Marmon Silko can attest to in her work Border Patrol State. Even though her work is dated by roughly two decades, her message still persists, perhaps more clearly now than ever, in light of presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s, proposal to construct a multi-billion dollar physical border separating Mexico and the US. This topic is analyzed by comedian John Oliver’s in his piece, Border Wall where he, similarly to Silko, describes the asinine struggle the government

Extra Credit DEA Assignment     This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to listen to DEA Agent Michael Sullivan talk about his career as a DEA Agent. He did not specifically discuss one thing, but he talked about how he started off doing Border Patrol. He discussed how he often caught people that were trying to transport drugs back and forth. He also mentioned that the largest amount of drugs he found was over 21,000 grams of weed. One interesting thing that I enjoyed from his discussion was the different tactics he told us that people use as a way to transport drugs from the US to another country. He told us that people will cut all of the organs out of a dead baby and stuff the baby with drugs. They

Drug trafficking has been an ongoing epidemic in the United States, as well us other countries for an unimaginable amount of time. Illegal drugs varying from heroin and cocaine are primarily the main drugs that get smuggled in the United States from South America. Even marijuana and methamphetamine have been popular in the drug smuggling “industry”. These gangs go to a variety of different extents to get the job done. Drug trafficking increases the violence levels These drugs have been smuggled through the Southwest Border since the 1970s and are attempting to expand the distribution of those drugs into eastern U.S. markets. The countries of drug production have been seen as the worst affected by prohibition. In many countries worldwide, the illegal drug trafficking can be directly linked to high violent crimes. This is especially true in third world countries, but has still been seen as an issue for many developed countries all over the world. Drug trafficking increases the risk of violence and crime due rise of addiction along with an increase of death. It also effects the along with correctional system effects.to its high costs, Nearly all of the heroin produced in Mexico is destined for distribution in the United States. Organized crime groups operating from Mexico produce, smuggle, and distribute various illegal drugs after trafficking them across the US border. Trafficking groups that operate from Mexico tend to avoid penalties by their stealthy methods of smuggling

This article, from News in Levels is about Tunnel from Mexico Smuggling tunnel between tijuana and San diego industrial park shut off by Mexican Authorities. The US authorities discovered the tunnel. They believe that the length of the tunnel is from Mexico to a rented warehouse in San Diego Industrial area. FBI detected and confiscated drugs such as marijuana and cocaine from the tunnel.

It is all over the Internet; the many stories of drug dealers from Latin America being caught coming through the same tunnels immigrants use to get into the country. In addition, because of them not only are they closing the tunnels but also they all put up with

     The main ways to ship illegal substances into the United States are This will force parents to take a more active interest into their children’s activities.      Many other types of methods are utilized on the ground to transport drugs into the United States through the borders. Although every road that leads into America’s soil has a port of entry and checkpoints, there are still traffickers that attempt to get pass the security and get the product to the destination. The majority of these traffickers are female and not all of them are caught. The most common method used to transport on the ground is in an automobile with the hopes that the border guard will not inspect the vehicle. The Mexican border has become a conduit for illegal transportation into the United States from South America (Clawson, 22). The convenience and location are the reasons that traffickers seeking to get the illegal substance to America utilize this border.