Mexico and its crime

Daniel Wallace
9-25-09
12:22
Mexico’s drugs
Being right along the United States border, mexico is a highway for bandits and cross-border smuggling. There are multiple ways these criminals can get into our country. They can easily go across the Rio grande or they could try and cross the ruff and rugged desert. Being that there is limited law enforcement, criminals and immigrant could fly small aircrafts and use small boats to ease their way to American soil unnoticed. Powerful Mexican drug-trafficking organizations exert considerable influence on the Mexican side of the border, where they use bribes and violence in efforts to corrupt or intimidate police officials and private businessmen into allowing them to operate with limited constraint. These powerful Mexican organizations smuggle cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into the United States. More than 50% of the cocain in the United States came across the southwest border with mexico. Other than drugs Mexico also smuggles illegal immigrants across the border. Now the country is at war with the powerful and well-financed drug cartel. In 2008 there were over 6,200 drug related murders. Top police commanders have been assassinated. This war started thanks to the president, Felipe Calderon for launching a frontal assault on the cartels by deploying tens of thousands of soldiers and federal police to take them on. He wanted the US to help just because it was our guns that have been smuggled into mexico that the gangs are using. And our American drug users which made the demand for these drugs so high. Police have made a lot of arrest and seized a lot of illegal drugs and weapons, but the violence still remains.
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/pub45270chap3.html#r26