Use of US citizens by Mexican cartels to traffic drugs increases

Mexican cartels never stop looking for ways to expand, and despite the fact that the United States declared war on them, they are now using their citizens to traffic illicit substances, as can be seen in investigations and arrests, showing that some of the patterns are changing. of operation that characterizes them.

Contrary to what is believed that in most cases migrants collaborate with drug trafficking into the interior of the country, security and migration authorities have discovered that There are many American citizens who support drug traffickers for the transfer of drugs, weapons and money.

Up to 80% of people convicted of fentanyl trafficking at the border are Americans, according to the US Sentencing Commission. Only on August 28, a citizen was arrested in Nogales, Sonora, for bringing two Barrett M82 .50 caliber rifles into Mexico, which were hidden in the engine of her truck.

According to the newspaper Excélsior, illegal trafficking on the border occurs in two ways: from Mexico to the United States carrying migrants and drugs; and from the United States to the South, smuggling weapons and money from illicit profits.

To cross fentanyl, drug traffickers use pregnant women, minors and even older adults as “mules”. In addition, they traffic people using false papers, or using vehicles driven by US citizens to avoid being arrested.

According to the aforementioned media, immigration agents discovered on two consecutive days fentanyl shipments transported by American minors: a 16-year-old teenager who intended to enter on foot from Mexico to the United States, previously reported missing, and two minors aboard a car driven by her mother, where there were 54,000 fentanyl pills and four kilos of glass hidden in the tires of the vehicle.

In another case that occurred in Arizona, a woman was arrested by the Border Patrol as she was transporting two Mexican minors from Sonora; Both children were drugged and, when they were awakened with difficulty, they reported that the woman was not their mother, although she had false papers, and that she had given them something to drink. The US citizen is being prosecuted for child trafficking.

One more resource that organized crime uses is to recruit people directly from Mexican rehabilitation centers, where American citizens go to receive treatment at a lower cost than in their country of origin.

Thus, organized crime continues to spread its tentacles, managing to operate on many occasions without being discovered, carrying its poisoning products to various countries and filling the places that oppose it with blood.

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