Mexican drug cartels overwhelmingly are driving heroin consumption in the United States, which is now at a historic high, the State Department said in a report released Thursday.
An estimated 90 to 94 percent of all heroin consumed in the United States comes from Mexico, a problem that has been exacerbated by an increase in the trafficking of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, by the same Mexican drug cartels that move heroine and cocaine into America, according to the State Department.
William Brownfield, assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, told reporters on a call Thursday that fentanyl is proving attractive to Mexican cartels because it is a low-cost, easily scalable drug to smuggle across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Drug traffickers are able to increase the potency of heroin they bring into the United States by lacing it with fentanyl at a low cost, making the drug "exceptionally dangerous" in America, according to Brownfield.
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9 comments:
Okay, so it comes here through Mexico. Where are the poppy farms? Where is the harvest processed? How is it shipped to Mexico?
Surely a wall will fix that. Thank goodness ladders and tunnels don't exist. And an ocean? What's that?
Brought in by Democrats
The fields are all over Mexico (and Columbia). The farmers get paid to grow and remove from the pod the resin. which dries into a paste. A farmer can get 3 harvests a year in Mexico.
The tunnels some very sophisticated have proved to be too risky and that option has been abandoned.
A lot is gets to the US by way of points of entry and is missed by Customs and Border officials.
Most is smuggled in by way of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. The persevere is nearly 500,000 acres and the border is mostly unprotected and is a smuggling corridor. It's an intricate system of lookouts who hide in the rugged mountain terrain and coordinate the mules and the teams that will eventually transport the heroin to points in the US. The lookouts watching for Border agents let the mules know when to move or when to hide. There is estimated to be at any given time approx 100 lookouts working the desert.
They even have people (disguised as hikers) who bring in supplies such as food and water, batteries so if they have to stay put for awhile they can survive. Officials are finding 50 or more pounds of heroin on the mules when they catch them. Just to give an idea 50lbs is worth about 4 million depending on where it's going and how much the dealer is buying.
It's pretty hard to miss a poppy field from the air. But the Mexican way is to be paid off to ignore them.
U.S. Customs is a joke. Ask any sport fisherman that brings a boat back from Mexico. The customs agents are too lazy to leave their office to check the boats. The boat captain and mate have to take a taxi to the customs office to be checked in
Mexico is corrupt to the core- when pepole say we are losing the drug war I say if we get as bad as Mexico- that is when I will concede that we have lost the war. Right now- our Leo's are not corrupt 99% and most folks still want to rid our country of illegal drugs- except liberals.
Thats why he is hiring 10k agents. Even your sarcasm falls short. Lol.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Okay, so it comes here through Mexico. Where are the poppy farms? Where is the harvest processed? How is it shipped to Mexico?
March 3, 2017 at 1:26 PM
the poppy farms are in mexico duh. you can grow poppies here. they are only illegal if you try to get the resin.
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