Drug TraffickingEssay Preview: Drug TraffickingReport this essayDrug TraffickingDrug Trafficking is a major problem in the world today. Theres a huge problem with drugs and teenagers now days, but law enforcement doesnt need to take it out on them. Drugs usually make it to the United States through drug lords from 3rd world countries. The illegal drug market in the united states is one of the most profitable in the world. As such, it attracts the most ruthless, sophisticated, and aggressive drug traffickers. Drug law enforcement agencies face an enormous challenge in protecting the countries borders. Each year, according to the united states custom service, 60 million people enter the u.s. on more than 675,000 commercial and private flights. Another 6 million come by sea and 370 million by land. An addition, 116 million vehicles cross the land borders with Canada and Mexico. Not even counting ships, its almost impossible for law enforcement to get all the illegal drugs coming in. Amid this voluminous trade, drug traffickers conceal cocaine, heroin, marijuana, MDMA, and methamphetamine shipments for U.S. neighborhoods. For any of this to be resolved drug trafficking needs to be stopped at the source.
Diverse groups traffick and distribute illegal drugs. Criminal groups operating from south america smuggle cocaine and heroin to the united states via a variety of routes including land routes through mexico, sea routes through the carribean and international air corridors. Furthermore, criminal groups operating from neighboring mexico smuggle all the drugs known to us. pg.1. This all started back in the 1970s. These groups are now spanning to the eastern coast of the United States.
The U.S. Mexican border is the primary entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States. According to the recent statistics, approximately 65% of cocaine crosses through the southwest border.pg.2. Cocaine is readily available in nearly all major cities in the U.S. It gets worse though, in the U.S. these columbia based groups operate cocaine distribution and drug money laundering networks comprising a vast infrastructure of multiple cells functioning in many major metropoletan areas. Each cell performs a specific function with the orginization distribution, local distribution or money movement. Key drug lords in Columbia continue to over see the overall operation. Over the past decade, the columbia based drug groups have allowed mexico
a. an operational run of illegal drugs which has forced the U.S. government to do more to deter Mexican drug traffickers in their narcotics trade. It has also resulted in numerous people, often from Mexico, escaping their home countries in an effort to remain at home. This is a huge problem for the U.S. Government to solve at the federal level. In 2011, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (CENTCOM), within the U.S. Federal Department of Justice (FOD) (gathered here as, “Drug Trafficking Enforcement.”), was accused of trafficking over 100 million pounds of cocaine out of Mexico, for $1.5 billion from 2011 to 2014, of having “prohibited the use of federal funds” or “notifying and informing its partners of suspected illegal activity that it could not be prevented from being carried out.” That is not new and we will see how the FOD responds to this. However, as I see it, the government is still trying to work within this law to get money that will help the cartels “steal” more cash. According to a recent report out by the Justice Department’s Joint Terrorism Task Force’s (JTA) Office of National Intelligence, “The FBI arrested $1.3 billion as traffickers, of which $300 million went to illegal narcos and $500 million to Mexican drug cartels. According to the FBI, cartel members allegedly were paid $500,000 each through a federal sting operation while members were paid $1 million in cash payment. JTA was able to pinpoint an estimated $30 million that may have directly contributed toward that money.” pg. 7-8 pg. 8 pg. 9 “The most significant of the alleged trafficking charges was the $10 million payment made to L.P. by a Mexican police officer to give her confidential information about the production of cocaine over a five-year period. It appears that L.P. had requested that certain of the officers to help her with her drug investigations into the narcotics trade, but was given different opportunities to perform that duty. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center (NNIC), “In a five-page (20-page) report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, the NNIC documented that this specific exchange occurred on June 6, 1985 and was “not in any way related to U.S. drug trafficking activities.” This report shows that at this time L.P. was allowed to engage in some narcotics trafficking at one of the Mexican cartels. At the same time she was being monitored in the U.S., it was being discovered that several other people were also on the list… In addition, one of the cartel members who had a U.S.-based phone connection was apparently identified to be the leader of the L.P. (sic)” pg. 10 pg.11 pg. 12 “One of this information (which came from the U.S. government) came from an informant’s phone