Drug Cartel Violence Spills Into U.S. From Mexico »
Posted By engineer 10 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsTuscon, an hour’s drive north of the Mexican border, is coping with a wave of drug crime the police suspect is tied to the bloody battles between Mexico’s drug cartels and the efforts to stamp them out.
Since officials here formed a special squad last year to deal with home invasions, they have counted more than 200 of them, with more than three-quarters linked to the drug trade. In one case, the intruders burst into the wrong house, shooting and injuring a woman watching television on her couch. In another, in a nearby suburb, a man the police described as a drug dealer was taken from his home at gunpoint and is still missing.
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djn3nunez310 months, 3 weeks ago
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Just like alcohol prohibition created the rise of Al Capone and the murderous gang wars of the 20's, the fascist drug laws are more to blame not the drugs themselves.
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k--h10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The US needs to stop pumping money into the illegal drug market. It's US demand and money that's causing the problem. Since the demand (and all that money) is not likely to go away in the near future there's only one option that's not going to make the situation worse.
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