Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten the United States

By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter

As America wages its war on drugs and terror with costs to the tax payer in the billions organized criminal gangs here in the U.S. have merged with the Mexican drug cartels, the threat to U.S. interests from an emerging international crime cartel grows more serious every day.

Groups like the Sinaloa, Juarez and Tijuana gulf Cartels, have virtually taken over law enforcement and high ranking Mexican government officials in their host country and are dangerous and significant players on the international stage, carrying out their criminal activities across borders and threatening the stability and interests of the United States. In other words they are a big security threat to this nation.

Fresh evidence of this growing threat comes from the powerful Mexican cartels which is already responsible for up to 80 percent of the cocaine that reaches the United States, and are increasingly able to operate above the law, buying off or even killing the government officials who are supposed to work with U.S. law- enforcement agencies to crack down on crime.

What’s worse, the cartels have now forged alliances with American street gangs, giving these drug cartels a deep reach into American life and through that alliance with our gangs that gives them control over most of the $300 to $500 billion American drug trade, the largest in the world.

These cartels have become a global crime corporation with an international reach of illegal franchises spanning the world.

The ability of these Mexican drug cartels to operate with complete disregard for the law on both sides of the border