Far too many illegals are involved with violent Latino gangs and Mexican drug cartels.
Guy W. Farmer
For the Appeal
Here’s something the so-called “immigration advocates” don’t want you to know: Illegal immigrants are deeply involved in the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4603 trade in Northern Nevada, and elsewhere on the West Coast and around the country.
The latest example of the dangerous and troubling connection between illegal immigration and drug trafficking occurred in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2518 last month when federal, state and local anti-drug agents teamed-up to arrest 10 Mexican nationals – most of them illegal immigrants – on charges of possessing large quantities of illicit narcotics with the intention of selling them to our children and grandchildren. Members of the Northern Nevada High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force seized 100 grams of heroin, 500 grams of cocaine, more than five grams of meth and $100,000 in cash in a series of raids in Reno.
“It’s hard to say what sort of impact this will have on drug trafficking in Northern Nevada,” said Nevada’s U.S. Attorney, Greg Brower. “This was much more than just a little bit (of drugs),” he added. Federal drug trafficking charges carry prison sentences ranging from five to 40 years and fines ranging up to $4 million.Although illegal immigration advocates argue that most “undocumented workers” are honest, law-abiding people who want to work in the U.S. in order to provide for their destitute families in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, the truth is that far too many illegals are involved with violent Latino gangs and Mexican drug cartels. How violent are they? Well, according to Time magazine, at least 3,000 people (including women and children) have died in drug-related crimes since Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a law-and-order conservative, took office in December, 2006.
So far this year, victims of deadly drug violence have included two of Mexico’s highest-ranking anti-narcotics officials, who were assassinated in Mexico City last month, along with local policemen, judges and a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed as he http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3069 fleeing from Arizona back into Mexico.
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