Drug cartels moving huge quantities of drugs into New Mexico

In American Greatness, Liz Sheld reports,

After two checkpoints were shut down in New Mexico, the presence of Mexican drug cartels is surging in the state. The checkpoints were shut down in order to deploy New Mexico’s resources to El Paso, Texas to help with the influx of migrants trying to enter the U.S. from that location.

...The situation in New Mexico isn’t just a problem for the Border Patrol, the DEA is suffering as well. Since October of 2018, a staggering seven tons of marijuana and nearly half a ton of methamphetamine have been discovered in the area. The vacant checkpoints are facilitating drug smugglers moving their cargo into the United States. “We’ve lost our second line of enforcement,” said Kyle Williamson, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s special agent in Charge of the El Paso Division and a 30-year DEA veteran.

“Are cartels capitalizing on the confusion at the border? Yes, they are!” Williamson told The Post. “They are using it as a cover to move drugs, which are coming through legal ports of entry. If your drugs are coming through legal ports of entry, you need lines of defense.”

...The state’s Democrat governor has pulled 118 National Guard troops from the southern border but Black thinks that might change soon. “We give it six months for the crime statistics to start rising here,” he said. “And believe me, all of this is coming to a town near you, all over the country.”

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