Problem in America

There is a great problem that is facing America. It is a problem that is sweeping the nation with no end in sight. It is the most dangerous but yet the most overlooked and ignored problem. That is drug trafficking. There are many different countries in the world today that most of their economic resources rely on the drug trade. It is easy for them to manufacture and just as easy for them to distribute to our country. Their gain monetarily as a country is destroying ours. So who is right, they need to eat and provide for their families while infecting our nation with drug abuse.

There is many different countries that are trafficking their product in the United States. From Colombia to Mexico and now as far away as Afghanistan, drug lords are competing with each other to try and traffic their drugs to the people in this great country. All of the people who smuggle and sell drugs are violent and ruthless people, driven by the all mighty dollar. They will allow nothing to stand in their way of making a profit. These men do not care how their drugs effect the people that they are selling to or what damage it causes to the communities that they are selling in.

Let us take a look at some of the countries and the types of drugs that they are smuggling.

We will start with Mexico. As a bordering country it is easy for them to smuggle drugs into the

country. This border country is one of the primary entry points for smuggling cocaine. Sixty

five percent of all the cocaine smuggled into this country is brought across using the Mexico

border. Although most of the product is brought over here via Mexico borders the trade is

controlled by the Colombians. Over the past decade, the Colombia-based drug groups have

allowed Mexico-based trafficking organizations to play an increasing role in the U.S. cocaine

trade. Throughout most of the 1980s, the criminals in Colombia used the drug smugglers in

Mexico to transport cocaine shipments across the Southwest border into the United States. After

successfully smuggling the drugs across the border, the Mexican transporters transferred the

drugs back to the Colombian groups operating in the United States. www.policyalmanac.org/crime/archive/drug_trafficking.shtm

There is a great concern between both the United States and the Mexican government as to

the epidemic that is streaming across the borders. Although they both do not have the same

stance on the drug problem. The Mexican government believes that the problem lies with the Unites States, because most of the revenue generated from the illegal sale of narcotics being trafficked from Mexico is made in the United States. Where The American government believes that Mexico is just a pawn in the trafficking due to location and the ease of access into the United States, and that they are not central to the importation of the narcotic.

This paper examines the nature and extent of drug use in the Southwest border area of the United States, an imaginary zone of approximately 2000 miles separating the United States and Mexico. Although there is no official definition of the United States-Mexico Border area the one used herein, promulgated by demographers