Drug Trafficking
Illegal drug trafficking from Mexico into the United States is and has been killing our society for many years. For decades, the border of the United States with Mexico has been used to smuggle illegal substances into the country with the intent to distribute. Many of the drugs come from Mexico or other South American countries where drugs are easily grown. Once grown and packed, they are then smuggled across the borders of Mexico and the United States. Upon reaching the United States, the drugs are distributed to many drug dealers. Eventually, these substances are then sold in our society to those corrupted enough to purchase them. In many cases, these people have a drug addiction or are just out there to make a quick buck using whatever means necessary. Customs agents and x-ray devices stationed at border crossings with Mexico are the only factors that need to be bypassed in order to successfully smuggle drugs into the United States. Some illegal substances are stopped and confiscated at our borders. However, the efforts to prevent the smuggling of drugs do not yield a 100% success rate. In the 1800’s and early 1900’s drugs were not illegal and widely used throughout the United States. Surprisin
According to Stewart, “Marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are the three most trafficked drugs in the United States” (15). Drugs that come from Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico are commonly smuggled through the borders of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California with Mexico. “Enforcement agents have to patrol some 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico” (Johnson 80). With United States border inspection stations and the enforcement agents patrolling the border there are still thousands of miles of unguarded border with Mexico that are not patrolled every hour and every day of the week. So many miles of unguarded border with Mexico make it easier for drug smugglers, “mules”, to bring the drugs into the United States (Stewart 80). Traffickers walk or drive through the border into the United States hiding illegal substances from enforcement officials: “There aren’t enough Customs workers, D.E.A., or police officers to seal off the borders from drug smugglers” (80). The United States government has been at war with drugs for quite a long time now. They have done many things to try to put an end to this dilemma and have spent millions of dollars but haven’t succeeded just yet. The Drug Enforcement Agency was created in 1973. “Their long-term goal is to paralyze and destroy drug trafficking organizations” (77). The DEA is known to lead America’s war on drugs where the battle may occur. Along with the DEA, government agencies like U.S. Customs Agency, Coast Guard, I.R.S., U.S. Military, and federal, state and local police departments all fight the war on drugs under the head of the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney General (75-77). Campaigns like “Just Say No” started by First Lady Nancy Reagan have been created to pursue society to stop taking illegal drugs. (Stewart 79) Also after the September 11th 2001 attacks on the United States, there have been television commercials shown nationwide claiming that buying illegal drugs is sponsoring terrorism. The governm
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