According to the U.S. Justice Department, of the 327 official land, maritime and air ports of entry into the U.S., 88 percent of all drug seizures occurred at just 20 of the ports
TX,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -5 Nov 2010: -- The September conviction of a Texas truck driver with ties to a major Mexican drug cartel gives a snapshot of the domestic operations of drug importers from outside the U.S... In September, a federal jury convicted Gilberto Avalos-Rivera, 41, a documented legal alien, for transporting 911 pounds of marijuana hidden in a load of papaya fruit from Texas to Atlanta... Avalos-Rivera was working for La Familia – a Mexican drug cartel based in Michoacan, Mexico. The cartel also used property in suburban Atlanta, in Fayette County, GA, including a secluded multi-acre site that it used to off-load drugs and cash. Avalos-Rivera drove from Texas to the Atlanta-area to deliver the marijuana. Investigators seized nearly $2 million in cash hidden on property used in the operation... Rod Nofziger, OOIDA director of government affairs, said the La Familia operation shutdown in Georgia is unfortunately just the cost of doing business for Mexican cartels... Nofziger said the increasing presence of Mexican cartels operating within the U.S. would only be worsened by proposals to allow for Mexican trucks unfettered access to all U.S. highways... Several publications of the U.S. Department of Justice tie increased smuggling to the North American Free Trade Agreement... According to the National Drug Intelligence Center’s 2010 National Drug Threat Assessment, the U.S. seized more than 1,626 metric tons of illegal drugs from January through November 2009, a fraction of the estimated several thousand tons of cocaine, meth, marijuana and heroin imported into the U.S. annually by drug traffickers... The El Paso Intelligence Center says that contraband sent by Mexican drug cartels is usually hidden among produce... That report cites “Corridor A,” mainly Interstates 10, Interstate 8 and Interstate 20 as being “the primary route for drug trafficking organizations transporting multi-ton quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine from the southwest border to eastern U.S. drug markets” ... Labels: dangerous cargoes
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