Reading this I kept thinking about "Breaking Bad"

https://www.conservativereview...sted-atlanta-suburb/

Mexican cartel meth lab busted in Atlanta suburb

Milton Georgia

they rented six really nice houses in a really expensive neighborhood and destroyed these houses and contaminated a rural neighborhood.”

“They were essentially poisoning the American people with diesel fuel and acetone,”

400 pounds of finished product was seized in total

When you observe illegal aliens pouring over our border, guess who is coming among them? The biggest experts in trafficking, producing, and cooking the deadliest drugs for the most dangerous Mexican cartels. That is the gist of the conversation I had with Robert Murphy, special agent in charge of Atlanta’s DEA office, after his successful bust of what he called a “huge and sophisticated” meth lab run by agents of the Cartel New Generation Jalisco (CNGJ) in an affluent suburb of the Atlanta metro area.

the DEA busted up a highly sophisticated meth lab run exclusively by Mexican nationals in six locations in and around the Atlanta metro area. All but one of those arrested were in the country illegally, according to Agent Murphy.

“We knew they were in the process of making a major cook and it was going to hit the streets. We had no idea we were going to find the size and sophistication of what we found. They were taking the liquid meth that had crossed over the border in Texas and converting it back into solid meth.”

Only one person was in the country on some sort of legal status, and they were all working for CNGJ. Mexican nationals absolutely control the entire methamphetamine smuggling process, and it’s all coming from the border – from the smuggling and the processing and the initial distribution all the way through the mid-level of trafficking. There’s a nonstop flow of illegals willing to make the trip over for the amount of money they are going to earn from the cartels.

What we see here in Atlanta and we know pretty much the same in the whole southeast, 100 percent of the meth trafficking is controlled by the cartels – every point, from the production in Mexico, the crossing into the U.S., the conversion for crystal meth sale here, the high level of distribution, and then the actual collection of proceeds, and then back into Mexico. Predominantly, what we arrest here is illegal aliens. Sure, you might find some Americans who would be willing to go to Mexico and work for the cartels, but it won’t be the level that they need to have the control of the U.S. market like they do now with the illegals and Mexican nationals.

“Our biggest threat here in the southeast by far is methamphetamine; it’s not even close. However, the other thing the media isn’t talking about [that] the DEA is seeing across the country is the unbelievable amount of cocaine seizures. The Mexicans control the distribution of cocaine as well and no longer rely completely on the Colombians for all the stages of the cocaine trafficking, which is why it’s being brought over the land border as well.”

In previous eras, cocaine was mainly trafficked by Colombian cartels by water, not over the land border. Now, everything is coming in though the Mexican cartels.

another article w some pics:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/loc...rth-fulton/917283562

I was reading an article last week that I have misplaced, or I'd post it here.
Due to the likely legalization of marijuana in many US states, cartels are switching to other more profitable options.
Meth may be one of them but Fentanyl and similar drugs are quickly replacing much of the efforts of these criminals.
These potent chemical drugs are much less bulky, are sourced from chemicals mostly originating in China, and have a much lower cost to the cartels. They can also be brought into the US as separate chemicals and manufactured here.
These are mixed with poor quality control, often into what look like pharmaceutical pain pills/tablets. Due to poor quality control they sometimes have highly concentrated ingredients that result in accidental overdoses.

Hmmm... Must be an Atlanta market. Not a lot of Mexicans here in the Yoop.
Our Tweakers home brew with one pot cooks.
And occasionally blow themselves up. Which is entertaining.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 220-9er:
I was reading an article last week that I have misplaced, or I'd post it here.
Due to the likely legalization of marijuana in many US states, cartels are switching to other more profitable options.
Meth may be one of them but Fentanyl and similar drugs are quickly replacing much of the efforts of these criminals.
These potent chemical drugs are much less bulky, are sourced from chemicals mostly originating in China, and have a much lower cost to the cartels. They can also be brought into the US as separate chemicals and manufactured here.
These are mixed with poor quality control, often into what look like pharmaceutical pain pills/tablets. Due to poor quality control they sometimes have highly concentrated ingredients that result in accidental overdoses.[/QUOT

most of the pot for the last 15 20 years has been in house because of the crackdown in the 80s thats when they switched to cocaine

The cartels are just businessmen who do things with max efficiency in a ruthless way, if necessary.

Switching to Fentanyl and offering free products laced with it or producing meth to counter the MJ that's legal in the US is just a business decision.

This trend will continue and China remains at the top of food chain with almost all of the precursors to make the drugs coming into to Mexico from China.

Cartels are now hooked up with human smugglers and the cartels are offering to pay the coyote's fees but the illegal immigrant has to carry drugs. If the illegal immigrant falls down or dies and can't transport the drugs, his family in Mexico has to repay the cartels.

We need a big shiny immoral wall to stop/slow the flow as well as create choke points. They only thing that will make it harder to get drugs into the US is actually making it harder to get drugs into the US. Walls make it harder. Build the damn wall, make it harder and more expensive for them to smuggle their crap in and easier for our enforcement to catch them. We will never stop it, but cutting it down significantly will save lives. Making it easier to stop them will save lives.

Open boarders kills people, walls save people, I DGAF what Nancy, Chuck, or Beto says.