Mexico’s involvement in the illicit drug trade in the United States:
•Marijuana: Mexico is the number one foreign supplier of marijuana to the United States, and marijuana is thought to be the top revenue generator for Mexican drug cartels.
•Cocaine: Mexico does not produce cocaine, however, Mexican cartels move Columbian cocaine through South and Central America and into the United States. An estimated 93 percent of cocaine headed to the US from South America moves through Mexico.
•Methamphetamine: Mexico remains the biggest foreign supplier of methamphetamine to the United States, and Mexican drug cartels set up labs to manufacture meth on both sides of the border, controlling labs in Southern California as well as domestically.
•Heroin: While Asia and the Middle East remain the biggest producers of heroin, Mexican black-tar and brown heroin is on the rise. In fact, 39 percent of heroin identified under the DEA’s Heroin Signature Program (HSP) in 2008 came from Mexico, making Mexico the source country for many of the heroin abusers west of the Mississippi River.[14]
It is no surprise then that the top five districts sentencing drug trafficking offenders were on or near the SWB in 2013:
•Western District of Texas: 1,587 sentenced drug trafficking offenders
•Southern District of California: 1,426 sentenced drug trafficking offenders
•Southern District of Texas: 1,279 sentenced drug trafficking offenders
•District of Arizona: 1,162 sentenced drug trafficking offenders
•District of Puerto Rico: 687 sentenced drug trafficking offenders[15]
?Methamphetamine trafficking
The popular stimulant drug made from the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine found in cold medications and manufactured into illegal methamphetamine in illicit laboratories may have initially been primarily trafficked by motorcycle gangs up and down the West Coast but concentrated in California. Mexican drug cartels are now heavily involved, and organized crime syndicates both manufacture and distribute the finished product as well as secure the main ingredients for domestic production in numerous smaller labs around the country. Superlabs produce larger quantities of meth at a time and are generally controlled by Mexican drug cartels, regardless of the side of the border on which the labs reside.Legislation regarding the controlled status and sale of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine products has caused drug traffickers to get more creative in the ways they obtain the main ingredient in meth. The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act in 2005, required retailers to keep pseudoephedrine products behind the counter and to register sales.[16] Traffickers began sending buyers to multiple retail outlets in the same day to buy small and legal amounts of pseudoephedrine, a process called “smurfing,†which they then used in clandestine labs to produce meth.Meth seizures line graphMeth can be “cooked†virtually anywhere; however, rural and smaller labs are prevalent across the Midwest and around the United States as well. Domestic meth production may be on the rise, as meth can be cut with many common products including anhydrous ammonia, one of the main ingredients used in fertilizer by farmers.Meth labs are highly volatile as cutting meth uses highly flammable and explosive materials. From 2007-2009, the number of domestic meth lab incidents rose from 596 to 966 across the country, especially in the South and the Midwest.[17] Oregon, Mississippi, and several cities have passed laws making pseudoephedrine only available with a prescription, and in Oregon, meth lab incidents decreased from 400 in 2004 to just 20 in 2008.[18]Prices of meth have dropped 70 percent between 2007 and 2012 while purity has increased. Meth seizures at the border have jumped from just over 2,000 kilograms to more than 10,000 kilograms.[19] With the help tutorials on the Internet, small meth labs have sprung up around the country, although estimates report that 90 percent of the meth for sale on the streets in the United States is still made in Mexico.
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/drug-addiction/drug-trafficking-by-the-numbers/#grefThat's a whole lot of cost to Americans.
Biggest one is that these pushers are targeting our children. If liberals care about children they should care about these numbers. I am sure that they know someone who's child is a victim of these numbers.
It costs America because the drug addicts are not employable. So they also are welfare, or they are living in front of buildings and under freeways in our cities. Robbing our homes to buy more Mexican drugs. And the cities want to tax employers to pay for the homeless. They talk about the problem of the homeless but won't get to the root of it, which is drugs. As the link says most coming from Mexico
Mexican drugs cause children and infants to become victims of parents who can't and don't take care of them.
But we just go along with no action on border security. Why is it so hard to fund a wall and border security when the cost, human and financial is so big?
