Drug Trafficking in the United States Jason Reed ENG122 English Composition Instructor McKenna September 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Over forty years ago, the world declared the war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to control drug consumption, the drug problem has emerged and allowed violent drug traffickers to expand their networks and corrupt even more Mexican and American government officials. The use of violence by traffickers against authorities and witnesses represents a major challenge to the neighboring countries as the ultimate guarantor of law and order within their borders. This in turn, has allowed drug cartels to move illegal narcotics freely throughout Mexico in an attempt to smuggle them
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The problem begins in Mexico and needs desperate help to contain the war on drugs. Majority of law enforcement in Mexico have been co opted, the dilemma silver or lead? Accept the bribe or we’ll shoot you— weighs heavily on Mexican civil servants, law enforcement officials, and security forces. Even high-ranking federal officials and military personnel are not immune; in the past decade, two of Mexico’s anti drug chiefs have been arrested for taking payoffs from drug kingpins. Paul.
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Justice Department report from 2009 estimates that the 18th Street gang in Los Angeles has a membership of some 30,000 to 50,000 with 80% of them being illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America (End). Its main source of income is street-level distribution of cocaine, marijuana, and to a lesser extent, heroin and methamphetamine. Gang members also commit assault, auto theft, carjacking, drive-by shootings, extortion, homicide, identification fraud, and robbery (End). It is estimated that $1.6 billion is spent on the incarceration of criminal immigrants annually and to add to that, an estimate of about one third of all local, state, and federal prisons consist of illegal immigrants who have committed a crime somewhere in the U.S. (Center). Consequently, the Mexican drug cartel has been reported to have gotten so powerful that Border Patrol agents are outgunned and outmanned, leaving them helpless and making no attempt to interfere with the Mexican’s illegal operations
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English 015 9:00 22 May 2012 Mexican Drug Cartels Mexican drug cartel: large gangs in Mexico who control shipments, manufacturing, and transportation of narcotics. Also corrupts political officials, Army and Navy persons, police of all kinds including federal, municipal, and also judges. I would like to show you how the Mexican drug cartels got created, who they are, who is in control, and why and what they are so gruesomely fighting for. Also is the President of Mexico to blame for an uprising in violence when the head of a cartel is either captured or arrested? The first drug cartel to be in Mexico was controlled by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.
Juveniles and Social Justice Linda Buch Ashford University CRJ 422 Instructor J. Kerr March 3, 2014 Juveniles and Social Justice Drug use has been a major concern in American society for as long as our country has existed and is thought to be what has led to the many unfolding issues of the now overcrowded prison population in America. In 1980, there were “41,000 people in jails and prisons for drug offences, but by 2012 the number had risen to 507,000” (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2013). Why the rise in prison population? President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs", a war that thus far has cost roughly a trillion dollars and has engendered little to no effect on the supply of or demand for drugs in the Cumulated
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