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Has Your City Been Infiltrated by Mexican Drug Cartels? Find Out Here

Forget drug cartels being a Mexican problem, they have infiltrated thousands of U.S. cities and are running complex and lucrative drug operations right under our noses. After all, we are their biggest and most relied upon customer.

Using information from a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Post was able to identify the trafficking routes and bases of various Mexican drug cartels. And it may shock you just how deeply embedded they are in America.

Unsuspecting cities like Portland, Denver, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago, Seattle, Louisville, Memphis, Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and so many more have a reported drug cartel presence.

The gangs move heroin, marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines to feed America’s massive drug habit, and they do so gleefully as they rake in billions of dollars in profit.

So which cartels have actually been “confirmed’ to be in America? To name a few, the Tijuana Cartel, Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Federation Cartel and numerous gangs with “unknown affiliation.”

Curiously, two of Mexico’s most powerful and ruthless cartels, the Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, are not included in the report. But make no mistake, their tentacles reach the U.S. as well.

Texas is particularly affected by the drug cartel invasion. The Gulf Cartel appears to control much of east Texas while the Juarez Cartel divides up the west. Further, the drug routes moving out of the Lone Star State and into other states are many.

“Cocaine is the most lucrative of illegal drugs. The United Nations estimates that sales of the drug net $88 billion a year on the street. While the largest federations were once Columbian, now it appears they are Mexican. The UN estimates two-thirds of cocaine that left the Andean region of South America for the United States in 2008 passed through the hands of Mexican cartels,” the National Post reports.

This graphic from the National Post breaks down the routes visually and shows where the drug cartels are operating. It also shows the number of drug related deaths in various categories, which now totals more than 50,000 since 2006. Has your city been infiltrated?

Mexican Drug Cartels Have Infiltrated These US Cities

(h/t: Business Insider)

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:03pm

    We do have a few ex dopey people in charge. When you do dope you end up being one. Watch who you vote for!!!!!!!!!!!1

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    • Marine 1
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:43pm

      …and our Idiot-in-Charge has ordered nine (9) Border Patrol stations or facilities closed. Hmmm! I wonder what he’s getting out of the deal? Oh, that’s right, more illegal votes come November.

      **** For Brains is destroying this country and his actions and orders are allowing the cartels open access to this country. The man is not mentally sound folks! Or is he?

      Give me a Division of Marines and we won’t have a drug cartel problem anymore. Hell, we’ll own Northern Mexico and turn it into a resort region for U.S. tourists.

      That will save the Mexicans the trouble of trying to take half of America back for their own version of what Mexico should be.

      Long live the United States of America.

      Semper Fidelis

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:21pm

      This is ALL Obama’s fault! Who cares who is running in 2012 against him – we need a real Christian Patriot!

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:40pm

      You want a whole division? How about a pair of MEBs? One swoop down thru the Sonoran Desert the other prong comes thru the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Let them meet up in Monterrey.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:44pm

      Today in the Anchorage (AK) Daily News there is an story asking whether we should stop the war on drugs. What timing!

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    • Consteacher
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:16am

      Not to mention all of the dropped korans and prayer rugs left in the s.w. prep and pray, the end has arrived.

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    • teddie888
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:05am

      Who said they’re “ex”? If you think that just because someone becomes older they stop, you’re naive and sheltered.

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:56am

      If the idiot in chief won‘t do anything about it maybe it’s time for us to take matters into our OWN hands and purge our country of this filth.

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    • GLOCKU
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:01pm

      SavvyCowboy, I was thinking the exact same thing!!!

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:38pm

      Ron Paul was speaking of any type of fences.

      Hear about rich people denouncing their citizenship and going overseas?
      Now the U.S. government is trying to tax them into oblivion for doing so…….. FENCE

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    • bdsconserv
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:43pm

      how come fast and furious has dropped out of the news this week? holder needs to be prosecuted: no let up on him!

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    • Collateral Damage
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:08pm

      Hey Marine 1, can you say “Numbered Cayman Account???”

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    • CTRYDRUMMR
      Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:13am

      Marine 1 hit it on the head………..Adolf obama is on a mission to destroy this country, and if re-elected, its going to get worse. Like it or not you liberal jerks……..

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    • Ramrod64
      Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:32am

      MARINE1 I agree,but lets say alittle Rolling Thunder 1972 stlye wouldnot hurt either!!!

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    • dutch groh
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:41am

      Noooooooooooooo! It’s not just Hussein Alabama & Eric Holding-this has been going on for decades. I lived in Columbus, IN in the late 70′s. It has a huge old WWII bomber base that’s now a municiple airport. The airport isn’t patroled at night by either the police or any gate security. It’s located 39 miles from Indianapolis, 79 miles from Louisville and 86 miles from Cincinnati and has been the local drug distribution point to these huge metro areas for decades as is evidenced by the multiple accidental drug confiscations and drug filled plane crashes (1 a marj filled DC-8). Every 4-6 months, the local police issue warrants for 50-75 street dealers & it makes front page news on the local paper. Hovever, never any action is taken against the higher level distributors-none. The police know the identy of this small group & most citizens know them as well yet local, state and federal authorities keep their corrupt hands out taking bribes which allow these criminals to continue poisoning our society. We hear almost nightly the media refering to the corrupt Afgan regime while our government and it’s enforcement agencies are corrupt and rotten to the core.

      Wake up America & do something yourselves to help your country before its to late.

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:58pm

    Of course. EVERY city is invested with illegal alien criminals. The LEFTIST democrats and LEFTIST republicans HAVE DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO WELCOME AS MANY THIRD-WORLD ILLEGAL ALIENS AS POSSIBLE, ON TOP OF the “LEGAL” MILLIONS they import.

    The LEFTIST democrats and LEFTIST republicans are successfully BREEDING OUT, by import and encouraged procreation (bankrolled by American slaves) of government-dependents, American Constitutional liberty. This is TREASON and we tolerate it.

    BTW, how’s the Romney-supported Rubio Dream Amnesty coming?

    Anyone?

    Anyone?

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    • PeteHDO
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Ten-four

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    • Boone2
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:08pm

      YOU NAILED IT WINSTON

      If Romney chooses Rubio as VP we will hold our nose and vote for Obama.
      Marco Rubio is a La Raza operative Period. He disguises it slightly by talking the conservative talk but his agenda he has already made plain.
      He tried to shove the Dream Act Amnesty down our throats and when Obama beat him to the punch by executive order Rubio whinned like a baby that he wasn’t a part of it.
      Rubio is a La Raza activist and their slogan is “ For the Race Everthing all Others Nothing”

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    • stopspendingourmoney
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:31pm

      http://www.dailypaul.com/245043/ben-swann-facts-clarification-from-the-rnc-rules-committee-ron-paul-has-6-states…. its not over yet RON PAUL 2012!!!!
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEd7F5wBrqI

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:22pm

      Ron Paul want’s open borders

      “The one thing I have resisted and condemned: I do not believe that barbed-wire fences and guns on our border will solve any of our problems,”
      Paul also said he was against laws that require immigrants to carry proof of legal status.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:36pm

      therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:22pm

      Ron Paul want’s open borders

      “The one thing I have resisted and condemned: I do not believe that barbed-wire fences and guns on our border will solve any of our problems,”
      ==========================================

      The Berlin Wall (1961 – 1989)

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:38pm

      BTW where do you Paul “FOLLOWERS” live? Me, see the clump of dots in SE Arizona.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:48pm

      @kid

      And your point is?
      I’ve been stationed in W. Germany twice (83-85 and 87-90). The Wall was not built to keep ‘illegals’ from W. Berlin from going east,but to keep the citizens of E. Berlin from escaping to the freedom of the west.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:54pm

      TheBigGovernmentConservative

      Since you have been living under the rock for the past couple months Ill be a nice guy and let you in on some info. RON PAUL WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT. You and your buddy TIME got what you want. Your constant bashing of a liberty candidate worked. So try and keep up.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:00pm

      @wake

      Since you have been living under the rock for your entire life I’ll be a nice guy and let you in on some info. Ron Paul won’t be President because he was defeated by WE THE PEOPLE/VOTERS, TWICE.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:03pm

      Oooops, therealconservative.

      MENTIRA:
      “Ron Paul want’s open borders”
      VERDAD:
      Ron Paul is NO AMNESTY, NO DREAM ACT, NO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, NO WELFARE INCENTIVE. Furthermore, Paul will AND HAS explained his stance, FACE-TO-FACE WITH ETHNOCENTRIC HISPANICS… he NEVER panders.

      VERDAD:
      “The one thing I have resisted and condemned: I do not believe that barbed-wire fences and guns on our border will solve any of our problems,”
      EXCELLENT POLICY, DOC! With your ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAW, there’s no need for any walls.

      Strange that a “realconservative” would spread such nonsense… particularly about a man who seems to be so… insignificant, right?

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:06pm

      Oooops, WAKEUPUSA2012

      “Since you have been living under the rock for the past couple months Ill be a nice guy and let you in on some info.” RON PAUL IS STILL RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. LEFTIST, PROGRESSIVE ROMNEY IS NOT THE NOMINEE.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:12pm

      Oh it was “we the people” who picked mitt rommney to be the nominee? LOL. Its was the ESTABLISHMENT who picked Rommney. Im no sore loser about Paul. Your a sore winner. Your still here bashing Paul when everyone else has moved on. You are a coward of the worse kind. And a big government conservative. You are a fool. And just like Mr T, I pitty you.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:17pm

      therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:48pm

      @kid

      And your point is?
      I’ve been stationed in W. Germany twice (83-85 and 87-90). The Wall was not built to keep ‘illegals’ from W. Berlin from going east,but to keep the citizens of E. Berlin from escaping to the freedom of the west.
      ==========================================
      It’s purpose is really irrelevant though….

      The debate centers around whether or not it was effective at preventing people from crossing from one side to the other:

      —————
      “When the East German government built the Berlin Wall in 1961 to prevent its citizens from leaving, the regime failed to take into account the ingenuity and creativity of those willing to risk anything to escape the communist system. While some flew over the barrier in hot air balloons, others sailed far around it, via the Baltic Sea, and still others were smuggled across, hidden in secret compartments in cars. But several hundred took advantage of the soft, sandy soil under Berlin to tunnel their way beneath the wall.”
      “Secret tunnels that brought freedom from Berlin’s Wall”

      Even with complete militarization of the entire length of the 96-mile barrier, the Soviets and the East German border guards couldn’t prevent crossings from occurring.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:17pm

      @bother

      “I do not believe that barbed-wire fences and guns on our border will solve any of our problems,”

      Means NO fence or Border Patrol, i.e. an open border. Having an open border is not enforcing current law. Wrong Paul doesn’t need to support AMNESTY, you don‘t’ need AMNESTY when you have a open border.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:24pm

      @wake

      Funny I don’t remember the ESTABLISHMENT standing there at the voting booth FORCING people to vote for Romney. Sore winner?, maybe your just upset that WE THE PEOPLE voted for the candidate we wanted.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:30pm

      Lol Save your breath people, TheBiggovermnetConservative is here to drive wedges and bring down the liberty movement. Dude if you think that when Paul say no fences he means let them all come thru you are not very bright. If you knew history you would know that the elites of every population at sometime try to round up their own people, Paul does not want those fences to be used against us. Its about caring for the American people, something you wouldnt understand. You hate civil liberties and you think the government can do no wrong. So sad.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:35pm

      Can you read? No One said anything about Paul. You brought that up. Hmm maybe if the MSM and people like Karl Rove would let the candidates pitch their positions without the elites picking sides (like Rove) and the MSM not bashing people and giving them enough time to speak, things might be diffrent. PAUL WON IOWA. The first Cacus. If Rove didnt make sure that the media reported that Rommney won, the public would see that PAUL was the first choice and everyone would have followed. But they said he lost then people said well I dont want to waste my vote and they went to the establishment. They did everything they could besides forcing us to pull the lever. So you take your simple minded @ss and move one. I aint buying what your selling. I know what im talking about.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:36pm

      therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:24pm
      maybe your just upset that WE THE PEOPLE voted for the candidate we wanted.
      =============================

      I’m more upset that you voted for government-run healthcare…

      Romney on Obamacare in 2010: Let’s “Repeal the Bad and Keep the Good”

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:24pm

      Political arguments are moot unless you have billions. Do you really think you have autonomy?

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:31pm

      It’s amazing how FAKE-conservatives like “therealconservative” lie and lie and lie. Then they lie some more. The follow that up with more lies. Then more lies.

      To repeat…

      RON PAUL TRUTH:
      “I do not believe that barbed-wire fences and guns on our border will solve any of our problems,”

      FAKE-CONSERVATIVE LIE:
      “Means NO fence or Border Patrol, i.e. an open border.”
      TRUTH:
      Means WITH OTHER, MORE AMERICAN MEASURES, “fences and guns” ARE NOT NECESSARY. Ron Paul has also explained that REMOVING BOOTS from protecting FOREIGN BORDERS and reallocating them TO OUR OWN BORDER will remedy the situation also.

      In addition, again to repeat, Ron Paul is AGAINST THE DISASTROUS, UNDERHANDED DREAM ACT. Obama IS FOR IT. Romney IS FOR IT. So, if border issues be a problem for anybody, THEY SHOULD NOT BE SUPPORTING ROMNEY. Well… unless they’re LYING AGAIN… and don’t really give a damn about illegal aliens enough to DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.

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    • endthemindlessspending
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:39am

      @WAKE

      The truth is Rick Santorum won Iowa over Romney. He was the most hurt over that false reporting. You might want to make sure your remember history correctly next time.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:09pm

      Go look at the FACTS. RON PAUL WON IOWA. FACT. NOT RICKY AND NOT MITTENS. FACT

      Report Post » WAKEUPUSA2012  
  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:55pm

    Our government has secret agreements with the Cartles. They wont go after them as long as the cartles puts there money in the big six mega banks. They want a nation of idiot drug users and all the misery that comes with it. Iran contra was just the tip of a mountain.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:06pm

      Why are we in Afghanstain? Was it to stop terrorist? Or for our elites to make billions growing and selling HERION?

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15254788

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b3pB6M7s

      http://real-agenda.com/2010/04/30/mass-media-and-army-lunacy-grow-heroin-to-avoid-war/

      Brought to you by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. The military industerial complex has it figured out. They invade a country take over the resources(opioum) grow the opioum, then ship it here. Then your kid uses it, he gets locked up(we lead the world per captia with people in PRISON) then he works for 35 cents a day and the big six mega banks own the president. The military industerial complex turning into the prison industerial complex. Hell I just call it the NWO.

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    • Sugabee
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:31pm

      Really? My just-back-from-Afghanistan Marine nephew would vehemently beg to differ with you on your theory. His outfit burned at least one 250-acre tract of poppies. These kinds comments never fail to set him off.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:43pm

      Im sure he did. But its not really a theory. Its a fact. Since the west went into Afghanstain opioum production has exploded by 500%. Fact. Im not saying that your nephew is shipping in drugs. Im saying there are elements in our military and government that do. Now they might burn some poppy fields in location A but in location B they either leave it alone or help grow it (as in that youtube video of fox I posted) Why is it that since we have been there herion has flooded the streets of europe and America?

      http://reinep.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/before-the-us-invaded-afghanistan/

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95o03ZYSkCs

      http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/afghanistan-troops-guarding-the-poppy-fields/

      Its a fact. Im sorry. That military that your nephew worked for, does not work for the American people anymore. It works for the bankers. We have been hijacked.

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    • Sugabee
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:28pm

      Look, I’m about as anti-Obama as you can get. But anytime you link something that goes to a 9/11 truther site or one that thinks aliens are about to get us – well, you’ve lost me.

      Especially when I have first-hand, intimate knowledge of people (not just my nephew) who think this theory is ridiculous. Are/were there troops with bad intentions who maybe smuggled it over to sell it? Probably. Is it a ‘vast right/left-wing‘ conspiracy to ’bring the people down’? Improbable. Are the Afghans growing/exporting more opium because our going over there and smashing the crap out of the Taliban freed their ability to grow it? Probably. There’s NO question that our “war on drugs” is a miserable failure. Unless and until our borders are truly secure, it will continue to fail.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:35pm

      @wake

      I didn’t see from your post that you have ACTUALLY been to Afghanistan to see what is happening, just saying

      Semper Fi

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:51pm

      I appericate you not taking a harsh tone with me. You,just like me, are entilted to your opinons. My best friend who is marine(no longer serving) went on 4 boots. He was in afghanstain in 2003. He says he knows the the commanders know all about the poppy trade and he has heard more than once that “we” are growing and moving drugs. Just look at some of those figures. I didnt post any link that talks about aliens. I do beleive 911 was a inside job. I beleive Pat Tillman was murdered. Besides what you might think of me, I support our troops. I dont support our politicans who send our brothers and sisters off to die in some foreign hell hole. I beleive in false flag ops. I beleive we have been hijacked and are in a soft tyranny. I encourage you to do some research into this. Dont just talk to people who will call me kook, go look up some figures. It is a FACT that since we entered that part of the world, opioum has skyrocketed. There is more than enough evidence to back that up. Now obviously I cant say this person is growing drugs or this unit is doing that. But when you look at the figures what other conclusion could you come up with? The afghans have been growing and shipping drugs for years without us being there. But never have they sent out as much is now coming out. It just doesnt make sense.

      God Bless. I thank your nephew for his service.

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    • Sugabee
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:09pm

      No problem, Wakeup; you are a child of God and deserve dignity for that reason alone. While we may disagree on certain subjects, and can debate the reasons why opium growth is up in foreign countries, I think we can both agree that our country is doing a piss-poor job in border enforcement, and the current administration is hell-bent on changing our country in a negative way. That is why, even though Romney was my dead LAST choice for President, I will nonetheless support him in ousting our current President. Our only hope for America at this point is to vote him out, and ensure that we vote into Congress conservative, constitutional loving men and women.

      And I will thank my nephew for his service for you. I am very proud of him, and my cousin, who is a Captain in the Marines (still serving)!

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 8:18pm

      Here Here!

      I am greatfull for openminded individuals like Sugabee. I know I am “out there” in my thinking. But “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”. Berry Goldwater

      I also know I will not get everyone to think like me, but I have to try. Lol. I want peace. I want freeom. I want small limited government. I want a foreign policy thatr makes sense. These are things that us conservatves can agree on. I love this country and I respect everyones rights.

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    • nurseheidi
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:38pm

      Thanks to both of you for a spirited debate, it is important for us to always consider all options. I have suspected that our Gov is in on the drug thing for a long time. Our policies have made no sense. God Bless you both and thanks to your family and friends that serve!

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  • Carlinpa
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:53pm

    The main reason liberals don’t want to seriously seal the border is because that would cut off THEIR drug supply and their cheap garden work! The “ illegal” immigrant stance is a farce

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  • ginger100
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:41pm

    It seems as if the republican party has been infiltrated by democrat cartels.

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  • AIDANMAN
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:35pm

    looks like the borders are safe… no issues there

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    • adastra2005
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:55pm

      They just come here to work hard and try to improve their lives. They pose no threat.

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  • flatbroke
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:34pm

    The sad part about this is, this is never gonna stop, as long as people choose to use, it will never stop, as long as folks look upon drug use, as a victimless crime it will never stop, as long as our culture proclaims that smokin dubbies as a right of passage for the young, it will not end, and as long as the boarder remains as pourous as swiss cheese IT WILL NOT END! we get the goveronment we VOTE for. ABBO 2012!

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:19pm

      flatbroke
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:34pm
      and as long as the boarder remains as pourous as swiss cheese
      =============

      “Border” (not “boarder”)

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    • flatbroke
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:20pm

      @ KIDCHARLAMANGE, get the post out of your keester, what are yu spell master, i really dont care if my spelling errors bother you, get a life.

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:15pm

      Do you think smoking weed is worse than drinking alcohol? I mean I agree with your premise that it’s never going to stop. Just curious.

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    • flatbroke
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:43pm

      @ JUSTANGRY, to answer your question, no i dont think it is, but i dont know if allowing people to grow their own is a good idea. If you legalize weed, and allow folks to grow their own, as long as they dont sell it, there will still be issues with this, b/c of irresponsible parenting, and folks who want to make money. personally i dont have a problem with an adult growing weed for their own consumption, however its like opening a can of worms.

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:27pm

      Fair enough. It’s certainly a tricky issue. Both sides make valid points.

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  • riseandshine
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:30pm

    I‘m glad the CIA isn’t involved in drug trafficking.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:36pm

      Tampa .. you think they will clear out when the FBI, Secret Service etc come to town? …. yea me neither.

      OMG 2012 LIBERTY!

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    • TheEDGE
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Maybe O’blah blah was partially right when he said, ” You didn’t build that. The government helped you.”

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  • Karron
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:14pm

    What I find most interesting about the graphics is the fact that the largest amount of drug use and sales seems to be around the edges of the country and along the most travelled interstate passages between the biggest cities. I guess it isn’t just the rednecks in the middle of nowhere who are making meth and selling it by the pound.

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  • mostauffer
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:02pm

    Wow I live in Southwestern Kansas I didn’t realize that the drug trade was going right through Southwestern Kansas…..This concerns me I feel that I need to go buy a gun!

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:17pm

      Well go out and do it! Quit talking about it.

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:50pm

      You mean you don’t already have one? Never leave your house unarmed.

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    • chazmo
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Get 3 or 4… and LOT’s of AMMO.. not a box or 2 but, 1000′s of rounds per gun minimum

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  • justangry
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:34pm

    Well most of the heroin grows in one place on earth. We’re occupying that region…. Now which cartel is exporting heroin to the US again? Just doesn’t add up. The US turns a blind eye to the terrorists that use the procedes to wage Jihad, and apparently they’re selling it to the Mexican drug cartels, but we can’t enforce our borders, rather we have a Constitution free zone to harrass Americans. Then when the product reaches the US, the people (Americans) at THAT POINT are prosecuted and put into prison because the politicians are paid off and prison contracts are big business. I don‘t know if that’s how it goes for sure, but something isn’t adding up, so I’m going to throw the BS flag. You’d think any credible journalist would ask these questions, no?

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:26pm

    I live in southwest Arkansas and I-30 runs right by my town. I suppose I need to learn to speak
    Spanish and/or get more guns.

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  • Lumen
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:21pm

    WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH PULLING OUR TROOPS HOME AND FIGHTING USING THEM TO FIGHT THE WAR IN MEXICO?

    Another suggestion I think would help is to literally move American Military Bases, a whole lot of them south RIGHT ALONG THE BORDER and let the troops manage the boarder for training. Pilots have to fly a minimum of 40 hours a week to maintain full training status, let them do patrols over the desert and they can practice coordination with ARMY troops and bases along the boarder to catch people and supplies crossing.

    People have been suprised by the cartels using submarines to smuggle drugs into the USA, how about the US Navy? Do you think the subs can outdo our navy who is literally trained to hunt and destroy such devices?

    I think this is all possible. I also think that the US Military resources would be better used in this war than in North Africa, or the middle east, or Egypt, or even Syria.

    HOW ABOUT SOMEONE REMEMBER THE LITERAL MEANING OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AGAIN and help us citizens that are being killed for the sake of some drug dealer keeping his stuff secret!

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    • kat747
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:29pm

      The US Treasury is making too much tax money on goods bought with money made on drugs.
      If they were not….that business would have been stopped years ago.

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    • Lumen
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:30pm

      Just my opinion I would contact the Mexican president and ask him to fix it, and give him 30 days to have the cartels under control or the USA will be forced to intervene. Then go into Mexico as a military force allianced with Mexican Police and whatever they might have for an army, and Literally and Physically crush these cartels all the way down into South America. Making a campaign to destroy the drug problem that is plaguing the western world. We would not occupy anywhere, or spend more than 30 days in any area, Just hit FAST, and HARD and do the job the first time and get out.
      It can be done in only 90 days, and Mexico can be liberated from the control of the drug cartels. We can give Mexico back to its people and South America can be free again as well.

      Anyway, this is just my opinion, I would re-enlist just to do it… if it became an option. Keep in mind as they make more money and grow, so does the violence, deaths, and problems. I would not want to see what becomes of our neighbor to the south in another 4 to 8 years.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:31pm

      We have a few unemployed well trained snipers who would kill for a job right now and we know where the cartels live.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:34pm

      @ kat747
      You are correct and it’s also more profitable to fine a criminal then lock them up.

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    • MudPuddleBunny
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:46pm

      I agree with Lumen on this one. If the US really wants to control this drug problem, we have to use our NATIONAL DEFENSE! That is why we have it and we haven’t utilized it. I can’t help but think that our Government (Obama and the leftist) do not want to control it for a reason. I‘m not sure people realize just how much money and power these cartel’s have. They are being used, I believe for the purpose of creating an army, an army to over throw the US to bring about an even bigger problem, a new world order as it were. Obama has already said that we need a “civilian” army, one bigger (and more powerful) than our Army, what? Why in the world would he say or even think that? Why is there even a need for a civilian army?

      If you look at what is going in Mexico its not just Mexican Cartels; Islamist are there, Hezbollah ring any bells? They are in Mexico and have been there for quite sometime. What happened to the CIA, weren’t they trying to control this cartel problem? I think they are also involved in it. I am going to be bold and say that they are actually controlling it or parts of it. There is more to this that what we’re being told. The borders aren’t being watched as they should be for a reason. All of this is being allowed to happen. Think about it.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:15pm

      Yo Mudpuddle:

      Money and power …
      If our government is unaware of this problem they are beyond stupid and should be considered brain dead, labeled as terrorists and treated accordingly.

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    • booger71
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:16pm

      Then go into Mexico as a military force allianced with Mexican Police and whatever they might have for an army
      =============
      The Mexican military and Federales are a big part of the problem.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:25pm

      Lumen
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:21pm

      WHAT WOULD BE WRONG WITH PULLING OUR TROOPS HOME AND FIGHTING USING THEM TO FIGHT THE WAR IN MEXICO?
      ====================================

      That’s crazy!…..

      Who else can we possibly get to guard the opium poppies in Afghanistan?

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  • ncgrammie4
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:19pm

    Another problem is there is a market for the drugs these thugs are bringing in. If there was no market there would be no Mexican drug cartels. I’ll bet the majority of the drug users are on some sort of government assistance, so we are paying for this in more than one way.

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    • Just in time
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:43pm

      NCGrammie4, if there was no earth to support people then we would not have people using drugs. While your argument may make sense. It does nothing to solve the problem. Constructive ideas on how to address the problem with reality in mind as well. Would be more helpful.

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  • The_Cabrito_Goat
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:15pm

    I like the idea of border defense.

    AKA Sovereignty.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:48pm

      I like the idea of flooding the Rio Grande with saltwater, and importing salt water crocs from the Philippines.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:13pm

    Barack says the border isn’t that dangerous.

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  • netmail
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:12pm

    They missed the Four Corners (where AZ/NM/CO/UT intersect). It was actually announced in the local paper. Wonder if a welcoming committee is in order?? Could be. Doesn’t seem like much is being done to stop them.

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  • justangry
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:11pm

    I don’t know, I wouldn’t be going for the DOJ for the truth. Nor reporting anything they say as fact.

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  • Too_Far_Gone
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:11pm

    Map of Holders friends ..

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:07pm

    Legalize it all, whoever WANTS to do drugs, IS doing drugs……and by far the most destructive and abused drugs….are PRESCRIPTION DRUGS…….prohibition does NOT work..” we know this already…
    I have never heard of a user saying, ” I really wana snort some coke, but it‘s illegal so I can’t…….” it’s a war with no end and no winner…”

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  • Nickallsopp
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:04pm

    Yep my towns been hit. If i can recall i think we called the drug capital of the United States. because apparently more drugs run through my town than anywhere else. I‘m not if that’s true, but my town is Deming, New Mexico. The southwestern corner of the state, only 35 miles from the border.

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  • toomuchgovt
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:04pm

    Too bad we can’t enlarge the graphs to see/read them.

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  • DoomsdayProphet
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:02pm

    1 of 2 things needs to happen. Take Mexico out. Or put up walls. Not a hard choice.

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    • sooner12
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:16pm

      I pick that we invade Mexico if we still have a Patton in the military. Then we will control the influx of illegal aliens.

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    • flatbroke
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:38pm

      Patton was awesome! tough as nails, kik @$$, old school warrior.

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  • TROLLMONGER
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:00pm

    America has only to blame itself. Everytime people in this country use any of these narcotics they are supporting these cartels.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:19pm

      That’s what my health teacher said. You want to know how weed makes it’s way from south america to Mexico? Young girls as mules, because the impoverished south americans are told by the cartels that they will be paid handsomely for their smuggling, and will return triumphantly home with the bacon.

      Not so. If the young girls even make it to Mexico alive, even if they aren’t robbed of the drugs by their contractor and left to fend for themselves in a strange country, they often get kidnapped into the sex trade right then and there.

      So if you buy weed or other drugs, remember how it got to your hands.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 1:54pm

    YES, and they have been armed by our CRIMINAL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT…nice.

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