... the U.S.Mexico border. The primary cocaine importation points in the United States are in Arizona, southern California, southern Florida, and Texas. Typically, land vehicles are driven across the Southwest Border. Cocaine is also carried in small, concealed, kilogram quantities across the border by couriers known as "mules," who enter the United States either legally through ports of entry ... San Diego, and San Francisco; and some Mid-western cities, including Chicago and Detroit. Traffickers from Southwest Asia rarely send bulk shipments of heroin to the United States; they usually smu...

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... through Mexico (they also frequent the Canadian border as well, but not as frequently as they do the Mexican border). These criminal groups have smuggled heroin and marijuana across the Southwest border and distributed them throughout the United States since the 1970's. In addition to distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the West and Midwest, these Mexico based groups are now attempting ... principal traffickers of MDMA worldwide MDMA, primarily manufacture secretly in Western Europe, is smuggled into the United States by runners through commercial airlines, as well as through th...

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