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From the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) http://www.nafbpo.org
According to a former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, the ultraviolent Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas has formed a partnership with the Chinese mafia which will result in a sharp increase in Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico.
Former DEA supervisor, Phil Jordan recently told KRGV News 5: “The Chinese organized criminals – especially when it comes to human smuggling – will team up with anybody that will assist them in transporting people from China to the U.S. via Mexico. The Zetas are well organized in smuggling people in the U.S.”
“If the intelligence continues to show the Chinese are partnering with the Zetas, you’re going to see an obvious increase in the number of Chinese coming across,” added Jordan.
The sale of many of the chemicals used in making methamphetamine have been banned, or are now strictly controlled in the United States, as a result, China has become a major supplier of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture the drug for all of the cartels.
Recently, Ralph Weisheit, a professor of criminology at Illinois State University told NPR: “These precursors are coming from China; they’re coming from India; they’re coming from countries that are, shall we say, a bit leaky anyway in terms of smuggling things out.”
What follows is a short list of large seizures of those chemicals which originated in China:
-In December 2011, more than 100 tons of chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine were seized by authorities at the Mexican Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas. The shipment originated from Shanghai, China, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Earlier that same month Mexican customs officials intercepted 205 tons of drug-making chemicals also in Lazaro Cardenas shipped from China.
-In September 2011, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency announced the seizure of 520 pounds of methylamine hydrochloride, the chief chemical component used in producing methamphetamine.
The shipment which was found at an air cargo facility at Los Angeles International Airport originated in China and was headed to Mexico.
A DEA official told Fox News that the amount of chemicals seized could have produced 330 pounds of methamphetamine, with a street value worth as much as $16 million.
-In August 2011, a shipment of gamma-Butyrolactone, the chief component used in manufacturing gamma-Hydroxybutrate (or the so-called date rape drug).
-In July 2011, Mexican officials seized 839 tons of methamphetamine precursors at a warehouse in the city of Queretaro.
-In February 2011, Mexican authorities seized over 23 tons of ethyl phenylacetate, which is also used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. The drug component was discovered at the Pacific port of Manzanillo.
-In April 2010, Mexican officials seized 80 tons of phenylacetic acid and its derivatives shipped from Shanghai, China.
Imports of ethyl phenylacetate require authorization from the country’s health ministry, so the shipments are intentionally mislabeled before leaving China.
Last year, an anonymous U.S. official told Reuters that between October and November 2010, Mexican authorities seized 818 tons of chemicals used in making crystal meth.
Due to rampant corruption among port officials, the cartels are allowed to receive large shipments of the chemicals from China which are transported to meth labs throughout Mexico.
The chemicals are used in a production process known as phenyl-2-propanone (P2P method), and cost much less than pseudoephedrine, thus increasing the cartels’ profits.
In 2009 alone, the Mexican police and military found 215 meth labs, a 400 percent increase of the labs discovered in 2008.
According to the DEA, 90 percent of the methamphetamine sold in the U.S. is brought into this country from Mexico and distributed by several street gangs such as the notoriously violent MS-13.
When are our politicians going to wise up and seal our southern border?
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