Illegal Gang Analysis
If the catch and release game of illegal gang members is not gut wrenching enough, there is another aspect that stacks on top of this issue. Mexican cartels and elsewhere have been battling over control of the Southern United States border in an effort to expand their drug empires (). This includes, funneling drugs into America through the immigration loop holes to their stateside counter parts for distribution. The Texas Department of Public Safety correlates a multinational relationship between the drug cartels in Mexico with regional gangs which lead to an overall higher level of drug trafficking, human smuggling, and violence in Texas (Influx of Illegal Alien Minors, 2015). More drugs on the street can only mean that it is going to get worse as most of the gang members
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Money is the life-blood of the cartels, a force that keeps them motivated to break every law to acquire more of it. With the additional resources provided by the distribution of the drugs through the gangs, they are able to provide their members with an ever increasing arsenal of more dangerous weapons than before. Drug operations conducted along the United States border with Mexico is the key factor that allows these delinquent criminals to keep functioning (Taylor, 2007). The ever increasing presence of the cartels along the border could be considered a show of force in an effort to demoralize agents. When put into context with the amount of drugs that actually get through border, the numbers show a realization that the country is indeed not secured in the slightest. Senator Ron Johnson affirms that at least 90% of illegal drugs make it into the country even after spending billions of dollars on the drug war (Ballasy, 2015). The numbers hurt because the all the effort that has gone into this war has bought only a marginal victory that becomes almost a complete national security
Money is the life-blood of the cartels, a force that keeps them motivated to break every law to acquire more of it. With the additional resources provided by the distribution of the drugs through the gangs, they are able to provide their members with an ever increasing arsenal of more dangerous weapons than before. Drug operations conducted along the United States border with Mexico is the key factor that allows these delinquent criminals to keep functioning (Taylor, 2007). The ever increasing presence of the cartels along the border could be considered a show of force in an effort to demoralize agents. When put into context with the amount of drugs that actually get through border, the numbers show a realization that the country is indeed not secured in the slightest. Senator Ron Johnson affirms that at least 90% of illegal drugs make it into the country even after spending billions of dollars on the drug war (Ballasy, 2015). The numbers hurt because the all the effort that has gone into this war has bought only a marginal victory that becomes almost a complete national security