Thread: ILLEGAL MEXICAN DRUGS SPREADING THROUGHOUT U.S. LIKE CANCER

ILLEGAL MEXICAN DRUGS SPREADING THROUGHOUT U.S. LIKE CANCER

By Michael Cutler
June 2, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

A news report appeared in yesterday's edition http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31 ... &th&emc=th of the New York Times. It makes it clear that the Mexican drug cartels are spreading throughout our county like a malignant tumor. It also makes it clear that the smugglers who move illegal aliens into our country are also using those same illegal aliens to further their efforts at peddling narcotics in the United States.

When George W. Bush debated John Kerry during President Bush's campaign for re-election he made a statement I took strong issue with. President Bush had said that as the former governor of a border state he understood the issue of immigration. As a retired INS special agent and as a New Yorker, I knew that the immigration crisis was not limited to the border states but impacts each and every one of our nation's 50 states.

A couple of weeks ago Atlanta, Georgia was identified as being a major "hub" for the Mexican cartels. Today's article focuses on America's heartland.

Increasingly the news reports are making it clear; quantities of narcotics across our country are soaring and Americans are getting hooked. Americans are also dying.

As more people are becoming addicted to drugs it should be anticipated that more street-level crimes will be committed by addicts who are desperate to get the money to feed their drug habits.

Commonsense would dictate that because of the clear interconnections between the smugglers and the growing illegal alien communities in our country that any effective strategy to combat what the article states is the greatest organized crime threat confronting our nation today. Consider this quote from the article:

Federal officials now consider the cartels the greatest organized crime threat to the United States. Officials say the groups are taking over heroin distribution from Colombians and Dominicans and making new inroads across the country, pushing a powerful form of heroin grown and processed in Mexico known as “black tarâ€

THINK What's if the Congress and Past Presidents had secured the country earlier? Maybe the drug war would have been nearly eliminated?