This Stunning InfoGraphic Shows Why America Needs Trump’s Wall NOW
As politicians debate the importance of Trump’s US Border wall with Mexico, this 2012 piece is more valid than ever.
Far from being a south-of-the-U.S.-Mexico-border problem alone, at least 1,000 U.S. cities reported the presence of at least one of four Mexican cartels in 2010. Meanwhile, south of the border, the machinery of drug creation and facilitation grinds away, spitting out addicts in the U.S. and more than 50,000 dead bodies in Mexico since 2006. The cartels are looking to spread their tentacles wider.
At the end of last month, a video emerged of members of the Mexican Gulf cartel using machetes to behead five men from the rival Zetas gang. The month before, a Zetas gang member dumped 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square. This week alone, seven police officers died when they were ambushed by a drug cartel, and the newspaper
El Manana, in the city of Nuevo Laredo, announced it was stopping coverage of the drug-related bloodshed after grenades damaged its offices for the second time this year (in one recent incident, 14 severed heads were dumped on the street close to Nuevo Laredo’s town hall in ice boxes).
In Mexico, murders, beheadings, kidnappings and torture are all too common as gangs protect their turf and try to increase their share of a drugs trade worth an estimated $13-billion annually. In the past few years, authorities have killed or captured 22 of the highest-ranking drug generals and seized more than $10.9-billion worth of drugs. There have been more than 55,000 drug-related killings and more than 6,000 disappearances during President Felipe Calderon’s six-year offensive against the cartels.
But a recent report by the U.S. Department of Justice says rug demand is increasing and Mexican cartels – who dominate the supply, trafficking and wholesale distribution of the trade – are positioned to meet the rise and keep the drugs flowing across the U.S. border. The seven Mexican drug cartels will solidify their positions with U.S. gangs who sell the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine on the streets of more than a thousand U.S. cities, says the report. The gangs’ proficiency will ensure “that the drugs remain readily available in markets throughout the United States.”
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