"Mexico's deadly drug war crossing the border" NBC

Mexico's deadly drug war crossing the border

Posted: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:57 PM by Daily Nightly Editor

By Mark Potter, NBC News Correspondent

While reporting on the vicious drug war inside Mexico, which claimed more than 5,000 lives there last year, we were shown a U.S. map that really put us on alert.

The map showed all the United States cities where federal law enforcement officials believe Mexican traffickers have set up smuggling operations. Each of these American cities was marked in red and together they filled the country, from South to North, West Coast to East Coast.

As one official put it, when it comes to drugs, weapons and violence, "Our southwest border has now moved to Chicago, Atlanta and New York."
For many people, Atlanta is the real shocker. News that Mexican traffickers have spilled over into Phoenix, El Paso and other border towns is more easily understood, given their locations. But drug agents talking about Atlanta becoming a major illicit drug distribution hub for Mexican cartels supplying the entire U.S. eastern seaboard is a different story.

Slowly, the traffickers moved into Atlanta and other towns in recent years by hiding among the already established immigrant communities. The drug trafficking business model they put together is quite sophisticated and hard to crack.

Smugglers work in cells to ensure security, answer directly to the drug cartel leadership in Mexico and use the same trucks which bring cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and heroin into the United States to sneak billions of dollars in cash from drug sales back into Mexico.

In a radical departure from legitimate business practices, the cartels establish loyalty and efficiency among suppliers and distributors through the use of threats and violence. (Atlanta and other cities are seeing a rise now in drug-related kidnappings, torture and murders.)

Tonight on NBC Nightly News we'll take a look at this serious problem and hear from some of the officials at the DEA and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who are trying to fight it.

And as you watch, remember what officials from President Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to agents and police on the mean streets have all pointed out. The buyers of all those narcotics who are sending $11-billion a year to Mexican drug lords are American citizens. Almost all the powerful weapons the traffickers use also come from the United States.

As an ATF official told us, "This is a problem not just in Mexico. This is our problem."

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Why is the blame ALWAYS on America. Of course those that indulge in illegal drugs are wrong, but if it wasn't America, it'd be someone else. The truth is Mexico is and always has been a corrupt horrible government, refusing to deal with its overpopulation and everything else. The "root" of the problem is Mexico's corrupt, inept government and until the USA says this to them, refuses to deal with them, refuses to take in its impoverished, Mexico will never change. It will only change America. Pathetic

So where is Keith Olbermann on this one?

When will the rest of the U.S. media pick up on this?

I was surprised when NBC Nightly news had this on tonight. It's about time. Now they need to talk about this in conjunction with securing our border and sifting out the illegal aliens in this country.

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I was surprised when NBC Nightly news had this on tonight. It's about time. Now they need to talk about this in conjunction with securing our border and sifting out the illegal aliens in this country.

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Yes, it is surprising.....everything has been so hush-hush up until now.....you know, that pesky elephant in the room no one wanted to talk about.

I imagine that we'll start seeing bunches more coverage too......all other agendas aside, the one thing networks and journalists will NEVER tolerate is being outreported by competitors :lol:

But, I will bet anything that this is why the pro-illegals are showing their desperation to get amnesty passed and enforcement ended.

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The buyers of all those narcotics who are sending $11-billion a year to Mexican drug lords are American citizens. Almost all the powerful weapons the traffickers use also come from the United States.

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I guess none of the 40 + million illegal aliens "hiding in the shadows" don't use drugs? Please!

I'm also to assume the sellers had nothing to do with setting buyers up for addiction to those drugs? :roll:

I saw this Tues night. Surprised me to see such a strong news story on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Brian even used THE standard line from Lou Dobbs that "Mexico is the number one supplier of marijuana, meth, cocaine, and heroine".

They've ducked this Mexican drug problem for years and now all of a sudden they run a big story? Something or someone must have finally gotten through to this mainstream channel. also....maybe the perspective of the U.S. military? also.....maybe just in time for the Obama transition? also.....maybe they snapped on the spread of drugs and violence in America? also....maybe they think any number over 5,000 deaths is too high? also.....maybe it will mess up their globalist cohorts plans?.....maybe they're losing more of their audience to Fox and CNN?

Oh well, I just hope they keep after it and give better reporting.