Janet Napolitano spent much of the spring sounding like a broken record ensuring that the U.S.-Mexico border is safe when the reality is that stretches are controlled by drug-trafficking organizations.
A new federal report exposing the ugly truth about the southern border has left President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary with egg on her face…
The truth is that Mexican drug cartels do in fact “control access to the U.S.-Mexico border” and the “smuggling routes across it,” according to the Justice Department’s drug assessment,which has been kept quiet by the administration. No press conferences or photo ops to promote this report,which concludes that the “unprecedented levels of violence in Mexico” will continue for years to come.
The crisis has also flowed north because cartels—including Sinaloa,Los Zetas and Juarez—have joined forces with U.S. street gangs that operate in more than 1,000 cities throughout the country,according to the report. Together they run profitable enterprises that sell cocaine,heroin,marijuana and methamphetamines brought into the U.S. through the southern border. This sort of “collaboration between U.S. gangs and Mexican-based” criminal organizations will continue to increase,facilitating wholesale drug trafficking into and within the United States,the report says….
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