Mexican Drug Cartels Operating Way North of the Border

But nah, there’s no problem with the southern border. It’s all good.

by Trey Sanchez

Proving how terrible President Obama’s open borders policies have been for America, a Mexican drug cartel was found by authorities operating a heroin ring some 1,500 miles away from the southern border. Yet, Democrats insist a problem doesn’t exist.

Meanwhile, drug lords have penetrated deep within our suburbs using street gangs and other outlaws as distributors showing just how far spread drug trafficking has been allowed to grow. In February in Rowan County, North Carolina, three people tied to Mexican cartels were arrested and authorities seized plenty of heroin, guns, ammunition, phones, and cash. This trafficking outpost was supplied by heroin rings set up in the nearby Charlotte-Matthews area for the last ten years.

Government watchdog group Judicial Watch is in the process of providing U.S. officials with evidence which places blame much further up the ladder:

A big part of the problem is that the drug trafficking is being leveraged by corrupt public officials in the U.S., a years-long Judicial Watch investigation has found. Undoubtedly, cartel violence is real but truckloads of drugs are getting across the country because U.S. officials at the municipal, state and federal level are turning a blind eye or actively participating and cooperating with cartels. As part of an ongoing probe, Judicial Watch has provided the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley with evidence, including the sworn testimony of law enforcement officers, of this corruption and criminality in all levels of government.

This is all despite years of Obama’s Homeland Security secretary claiming the border isn’t producing a big problem for America. But Judicial Watch’s probe says something entirely different:

One report, published just a few months ago, referred to western states as a “heroin transit zone” because Mexican cartels move such large amounts of drugs through the Southwest border. That government assessment disclosed that there at least eight major Mexican drug trafficking organizations operating in the United States with the Sinaloa Cartel being the most active. Heroin is the most popular drug and it’s entering the country through Mexico in record numbers. From 2010 to 2015 heroin seizures in the Mexican border region more than doubled from 1,016 kg to 2,524 kg, according to government figures.

Federal arrests of heroin traffickers also skyrocketed in 2015 to 6,353 arrests. The DEA now states that most illegal drugs in the U.S. are brought via Mexico and that “Mexican traffickers remain the greatest criminal threat to the United States.”

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