Drug cartels are now considered terrorists .

[Yvonne Smith]

President Trump has designated all of the drug cartels and gangs as terrorists because of the terrible killings and attacks they have done here in the United States. He has made an agreement with (I think)Venezuela where they have the large prison for gang related crimes, and some of these cartel members will be sent there once they are arrested and tried in courts.
Others will probably be sent to Gitmo, but either way, they will be off the streets.
Mexico and Canada are both working together with the US to help secure our borders, and we just had 29 cartel overlords extradited from Mexico and they will be going to court right away once they are back in the United States.
We are also working with more of the European countries because these cartels operate just about everywhere and are killing people.

 

[RelaxedFit]

Sometimes I think the biggest problem behind drag abuse is the level of casual tolerance. I'm often shocked when I hear people brag about how many drugs they were doing in the 60s and 70s and how benign it all is.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Sometimes I think the biggest problem behind drag abuse is the level of casual tolerance. I'm often shocked when I hear people brag about how many drugs they were doing in the 60s and 70s and how benign it all is.

Even back then, we did not have as many people dying from overdoses as we have now, and especially with the fentanyl coming into the country from the drug cartels.
I had a really good friend that I worked with, and Jennifer had a back back . Her doctor prescribed pain medication, and she got hooked on that, and after she could no longer get the medication from her doctor, she started buying street drugs.
She lost her husband and her children, and eventually, she lost her life from an overdose. They found her body dumped along the highway near Birmingham, where she had stopped and gotten some bad drugs and overdosed, so whomever she was with just dumped the body .

 

[RelaxedFit]

Holy... cow. That's a horrible tragedy.

Yeah, I understand that quite a large number get misdiagnosed, mistreated, or put on pain killers without adequate support and follow-up. If they run out of pain killers and are still without relief I suppose they might try anything and find themselves on a slippery slope.

 

[Bobby Cole]

To be sure, Nixon’s “War on Drugs” has been reinstated by Trump’s border initiatives to stop the flow of illegals coming across the borders but there has to be more to stop the apathetic way the American people view drug abuse.
Until the Reagan administration, citizens hooked on drugs and / or alcohol used to get SSI checks if their doctor signed off on a writ that declared the user as “incurable”.
Now, instead of the taxpayer footing the bill for SSI checks, we pay for methadone clinics and free methadone for heroin addicts who, by the bye, find the substitute harder to kick than heroin.
In some states, needles and other paraphernalia are handed out freely for the addicted so we the people can say, “well, at they’re clean addicts”.

What I am getting at is that if there is a need for illegal (and legal) drugs, there will always be someone there to sell it to whomever needs them.
If we do not go after doctors who casually prescribe narcotics without a way to repair the damage the pain killers create:
If we do not go after the street dealers, (who, in my somewhat biased opinion are murderers), en force and put them away for good;
And moreover, if we do not stop condoning drug abuse and start treating it like the epidemic that it really is:
There will always be a dealer, there will always be a cartel, there will always be someone there to make a buck off of human misery.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I am just reading in the news today that they found the dismembered remains of several students who had been vacationing in Mexico on their spring break. They just have parts and pieces, but think there are about 12 students who were murdered , and probably by the cartels.
These were American students, and President Trump has designated the cartels as terrorist organizations, so you can bet that our government will be loonoing into this and finding the cartel that killed all of these young girls.
We have already found and arrested some cartel members who thought they were hidden until they were found and arrested and will now be tried and imprisoned or executed.
You would think that students would not want to take a chance on vacationing in a country where it is known to be filled with drug dealers and cartels killing people there, but they must have thought they were safe , until they disappeared. There is not a lot to this story yet, so I do not know how many people were in the group of students who went there for vacation.

 

[Hollydolly]

I am just reading in the news today that they found the dismembered remains of several students who had been vacationing in Mexico on their spring break. They just have parts and pieces, but think there are about 12 students who were murdered , and probably by the cartels.
These were American students, and President Trump has designated the cartels as terrorist organizations, so you can bet that our government will be loonoing into this and finding the cartel that killed all of these young girls.
We have already found and arrested some cartel members who thought they were hidden until they were found and arrested and will now be tried and imprisoned or executed.
You would think that students would not want to take a chance on vacationing in a country where it is known to be filled with drug dealers and cartels killing people there, but they must have thought they were safe , until they disappeared. There is not a lot to this story yet, so I do not know how many people were in the group of students who went there for vacation.

I read that in the papers too Yvonne... shocked that students would be the target but there doesn't seem to have been any more to the story...

 

[Bobby Cole]

It is my opinion mind you and I really do not know a lot about the new President of Mexico but in the past, it is the Mexican government that is fully responsible for the cartels’ ability to do business.
So much so that just 6 years ago, the Mexican military attempted to “arrest” Ovidio Guzman, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s 28 year old son in Culiacan, Sinaloa and were eventually told to release the son by the Government if they caught him.
The Mexican military was so badly beaten by the well armed Sinaloan cartel that the government capitulated and said, let Ovidio go.
Note:
A Mexican American I worked with some years ago told me that his mother lived in a town controlled by a cartel. Even though she town lived in peace, in order to do so they had to surrender any weapons to the cartel and succumb to any demands made by the members of the cartel or face a brutal death.
In short, the Cartels fully control Mexico.

What I am getting at is yes, the cartels are terrorist groups and the new U.S. administration is doing what the Mexican government cannot or will not do.
By closing off the border, the Cartels are taking a huge hit to their multi-billion (or trillion) dollar business of processing and selling of illegal drugs, human trafficking etc.
Bottom line is that to me, it is no wonder why a morally impoverished people like those who belong to the cartels would attack and brutally murder and dismember even the most innocent people coming from a country that is cutting off their pipeline of illicit wealth.
The goal of such actions is to demoralize and strike fear in those who would present themselves as an enemy, a tactic that has worked for thousands of years even to the point of controlling whole countries like….Mexico.