Drugs Continue to Pour in Through Border

Posted by azdrugrehabctr on June 23, 2015 under AZ Drug Rehab News | Comments are off for this article

An interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee exposed just how many illegal drugs were coming into the country. While border control agents work tirelessly to prevent cartels from smuggling thousands of pounds of drugs like; heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States, it appears that the cartels are getting the better of the agents. As the drug problem continues to get worse in this country, government agencies are looking inward to determine what sort of changes need to be made in order to put a dent in the increasing amounts of drugs available to addicts.

“If you really want a metric that lays out how completely unsecure our border is, and starts pointing to the root cause of the insecurity at our border, it’s our interdiction of drugs. We had Gen. McCaffrey testify that today we are only interdicting about 5 to 10 percent of illegal drugs coming into this country,” explained Sen. Johnson.

Johnson goes on to discuss the different things that make it difficult for the American government and law enforcement to minimize the amount of drugs coming into the country. He points out that the market is so strong for illegal drugs that it acts as a magnet for the drug cartels. Because of the seemingly unending demand Americans have for drugs, the cartels will find a way to get the drugs to them. He describes the whole thing as a business venture that spawns off into other markets. Because of the money coming in from the sale of illegal drugs, cartels also engage in sex trafficking, and exploiting their own countrymen’s desperate attempts to get into the United States. Using people who are trying to get into the country, cartels often force them to smuggle in large quantities of drugs. In order for people to make it across the border they have to pass through territory occupied by the cartels. Once discovered by the cartels, people are made to strap drugs on them and continue on their journey. Sometimes they get caught, but as Johnson points out, they often do not get apprehended and the drugs make their way to waiting consumers on the other side.