Thread: Border Drug Busts Dominate Thanksgiving Week

by Kristin Tate 29 Nov 2014, 4:58 AM PDT

Thanksgiving week was no time to celebrate for the numerous drug smugglers caught with hundreds of pounds of marijuana by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.

During the past week, agents seized about 800 pounds of marijuana and four vehicles, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

700 pounds of pot -- with a value of $350,000 -- were seized during just one bust near Naco, Arizona. The drugs were found inside of a vehicle on November 19, after the driver pulled over on the side of the road and fled the scene on foot. Ultimately, officials found the suspect, a Mexican national, hiding in a nearby house.

Another significant event occurred on November 20, when agents saw five men emerge from the desert and jump into a Jeep Commander vehicle. An agent arrested three Mexican nationals, all in the U.S. illegally, after pulling the vehicle over. The other two passengers were U.S. citizens. Officials found three firearms in the car, according to CBP: a machete and two loaded handguns.

Just one day later, agents arrested three Mexican nationals, all in the country illegally, on suspicions of smuggling activity. The arrests were made near Douglas, Arizona.

Another $43,000 worth of marijuana was seized on November 23 from a vehicle at the DeConcini crossing in Nogales, Arizona. One man was arrested in connection with the drugs after "he attempted to flee south into Mexico following a vehicle stop," according to CBP.

Drug seizures have remained common along the U.S.-Mexico border. At one point -- during the height of the 2014 border crisis -- Border Patrol agents were seizing $10 million in drugs along the Texas-Mexico border each week.

"The sizes of busts vary," Daniel Tirado, a spokesman for Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, told Breitbart Texas. He added that many of the larger seizures are made from commercial vehicles. But Tirado pointed out, "A lot of legitimate commercial traffic goes through checkpoints. Just because they're commercial doesn't mean that they're transporting narcotics." He said officers rely heavily on canines to detect the odor of drugs.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-T...nksgiving-Week

We need to end the war on drugs and let Americans grow, make and sell their own stuff. All this cross border shenanigans over drugs that Americans want to buy but can't grow or make is just stupid. End the war on drugs, legalize and regulate, make it a domestic US citizen trade only, and run these cartels and all their illegal alien drug runners the hell out here by undercutting their prices and putting them out of business.

The War on Drugs is a delusion.

We tried prohibition here at home, and interdiction in Columbia and Mexico. The result was always the same: rival drug gangs - alcohol is a drug, after all - and massive corruption of government officials and police.

The only drug policy which will work long term is legalization, taxation, regulation, and education.

There's a perverse aspect to the War on Drugs. Illegal aliens undercut Americans for entry level jobs. Then our own people end up in jail for minor drug crimes, before they even have a chance to learn what it means to be responsible adults. Then illegals have an even easier time of undercutting them for entry level jobs. It's a vicious cycle, which 'Bama's executive amnesty will, if not defunded, make even worse.
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