Can you cite any DEA, FBI, ICE or relevant border State law enforcement agencies to back this claim up? I mean I’m glad Latin American drug cartels are stupid enough to try to enter the United States by going through the most secure and guarded ports of entry but I am personally a little bit worried one of them might come down from their coke binge and start thinking that perhaps trying to go around the security check points might be a safer avenue.
It’s a well known fact. Here, in this Southern Border State, we hear about every local drug bust. All major busts happen at the legal border ports of entry. Statistically speaking if you have a huge volume of product to move from one country to another, you are far more likely to get caught when you’re Not going through a check point. Think about it.
In between the legal check points there are drag lines which are tracked and infrared heat sensing which picks up literally everyone within like 40+ miles of the Mexican Border. My friend and her husband were camping in the mountains 40 miles away from the Mexican Border a few months back and in the middle of the night Border Patrol shows up to their campsite because they saw them with the infrared from miles away.
Now, if you have a truck full of drugs, you’ll stand out like a sore thumb. But it’s not just one truck full a day, but multiple trucks full everyday coming across with the various Cartels’ drugs - ALL would be caught if crossing anywhere BUT a legal checkpoint (or a Tunnel). Legal check points have hundreds of thousands crossing everyday and they, currently, literally can NOT check evey single one thoroughly enough to catch them all - statistically, most get through.
My friend & I were discussing your comment today at the gym. She suggests you to read Devil’s Highway, if you want an unpolitically-biased idea of what’s really going on down here.
The solution is to spend the tremendous amount of money being wasted on a Wall (where drugs aren’t coming in) and direct it to the legal points of entry so that it WILL be possible to thoroughly check every single truck coming over. Then, either the Cartels will be crushed or they’ll start looking for another away in - deal with that problem once/if it becomes a problem… until then, let’s deal with the problem that actually exists.