Thread: Drug, immigrant smuggling surging at border in New Mexico

Officials say drug, immigrant smuggling surging at border

Posted at: 05/20/2010 10:45 PM
By: Misa Maruyama, Eyewitness News 4

Drug and illegal immigrant smuggling is surging in New Mexico's Bootheel, according to the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department.

Eyewitness News 4 tagged along with deputies in Southwestern New Mexico to see the trend for ourselves. Investigators say they found $100,000 worth of marijuana on Wednesday in the trunk of a car, after the driver refused to show his photo identification or vehicle registration. Officials said a suspected illegal immigrant who had been deported 10 times was behind the wheel.

Deputies also executed a search warrant on a suspicious truck that had been pulled over Wednesday night. Officials said about $50,000 worth of marijuana was stashed in the gas tank. The license plate appeared to be from Chihuahua, Mexico. The driver, who officials say had a US Visa, told deputies he was on his way to Albuquerque.

"We get a lot of marijuana and alien smuggling loads going toward Albuquerque. We get a lot of vehicles registered out of Los Lunas, Belen and Albuquerque," Cpl. Gary Lassiter of the Hidalgo Co. Sheriff's Dept.

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That is because Calderon is telling "HIS" people that Obama will force immigration reform regardless of what American citizens want.
Don't you know they are broadcasting the Congress applause of the Mexican Pres., on every radio and TV station in Mexico?

this will never stop until we put military on the border, throw illegals in jail for being in the country. like the penalties Mexico has