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    Life Along the Border December 2008 marks the initial start to the devastating and gruesome cartel drug war in Mexico that has led to the deaths of over 80,000 people. In the midst of this war, violence has surged dramatically in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an area seen by many as a point of contention in the lucrative drug smuggling business that stems from Mexico and flows into the United States. As a result of the recent outbreak of violence, it has been difficult to accept the fact that my mother

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    Drug Wars. When people hear the term “Drug Wars” they think that the cause of all the Drugs and Violence flowing through into the United States, is all Mexico’s fault, that Mexico is the cause of so many deaths and a War that the United States thinks it’s “Winning”, but they are not even making a little dent. Interestingly enough, Mexico is not the only cause of this War going on around the Border, The United States plays a big role around the Drug Wars as well. THE TIES THE U.S. HAS WITH MEXICAN

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    Department of Homeland Security there are an estimated eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States of America. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2015) However, contrary to popular beliefs, not all undocumented immigrants are Mexican or cross a border without documentation in order to enter the U.S. Many people from various countries fly into the U.S. and overstay their visas in addition to other forms of entering the country. In recent years there has been a lot of controversy

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    Pacifism In Mexico

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    The Mexican government’s past pacifism has enabled cartel strongholds throughout the nation. With agreements between the Mexican cartels and the PRI ruling political party, extreme violence was considered under control, in the 1970s through the 1990s (Madrid 2013, 100). However, in a 2015 Congressional Research Service (CSR) report addressing crime and drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, the document reveals Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO) are not a new trend, and in fact have been around

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    The article contained impact because this affects Mexico and the rest of the world. It affects Mexico because if Guadalajara is the next “Silicon Valley”, then they will become more popular, like the United States of America, or as they mentioned in the article, India. This would prove as evidence that the stereotypes created are not always true and that Mexico is a reliable country. This affects the world because if one of the technological companies start to become influential and they create a

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    Mexican Independence ( Rough draft ) Have you ever thought of something you're so curious about? Something that your curiosity runs completely insane because you need the full information or a full story about what really happened or how did it happen ? Well I did, When a research paper was assigned about Spanish Culture I was only Interested into one topic and thats the History or background oh how the Mexican People receive their Independence. Like how America had it’s own story of its independence

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    his criticism of the American government during the time. During Thoreau’s life, there were two major issues being debated in the United States: slavery and the Mexican-American War. Both issues greatly influenced his essay, as he actually practiced civil disobedience in his own life by refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican War. He states that the government should be based on conscience and that citizens should refuse to follow the law and has the duty not to participate and stay as a

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    Drug War Research Paper

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    Again, it was shown that approximately 70 percent of the federal budget for the war on drugs (again, the report for the federal budget was statistically manipulated and skewed) was going towards the imprisonment and law enforcement against the suppliers and users of narcotics. The effects caused by the imprisonment and armed force

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    intervention. In Mexico, the AFO thrives on the large number of corrupt Mexican officials. The cartel makes it a very smart choice for a government official or law enforcer to help them. Not only are they bribed, but they are also threatened with violence. Everyone in Mexico knows from the history of this group that they mean business and any threat is very legitimate. Because of the large amount of corruption in the Mexican government, the Tijuana cartel flourishes. Both of these cartels are

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    seem to embrace love for Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, and Mexican films. However, we haven't really focused, and don't seem to much care about, the innocent victims killed every day in Mexico. Just in the past few years. 80,000 people were murdered directly by the Mexican Drug War. An ongoing low-intensity asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates. Since 2006, when intervention with the Mexican military began, the government's

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