Friday, October 29, 2010
Borders and Drug trafficing
The drug violence in mexico is getting way out of control, it is getting to the point where we arent going to be able enter Mexico any more. On March 13, 2010 A gunmen linked to drug trafficking killed a pregnant african american consultant worker and her husband in the town of Juárez. The gunmen also killed the husband of another employee and wounded his two young children. Complaints from workers that drug-related violence is growing has led to our goverment letting our workers and their families to evacuate across the borders.Washington has begun to question whether the violence is a threat to their our own national security. The United States and Mexico have come up with a new strategies by focusing their efforts on strengthening civilian law enforcement institutions. Drugs are an on going struggle between us and Mexico. I dont know if we are ever going to be able to stop drugs from entering the U.S but in trying to do so I think the gangs are growing despret to continue their money making. They are retaliating in killing our citizens.
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The Drug war on the borders is an ongoing issue in Texas that is somewhat overlooked on a national level. I read Border and Drug Trafficking by my fellow classmate Margaret Falcon. The editorial is informative but to me just gives a vague look at the issue at hand and lack more detail that would grab the reader’s attention. I think that a little more personal views and thoughts on the subject would strengthen the article and make it more personal to the author.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the article based on the fact that the ongoing drug war on the Texas/Mexico border is getting out of control. The use of strong points like the killing of innocent people and people being allowed to cross border lines because of this bring this issue to life because regular people are being affected. Although the article suggests that the U.S. and Mexico are working to come to a resolution for the problem at hand a more in-depth description to these issues would help strengthen and give these points creditability.
All in this entire article to me is a good article it’s short, informative, and to the point. To me this article is very relevant and important to me and all Texans. More attention needs to be paid to this subject by our national government because the issue has out grown our Texas government.
One of my classmates, Margaret Falcon, wrote an interesting post "Borders and Drug Trafficking". After reading her post, I have to agree with Margaret s claim that there must be something done to control the violence and drug trafficking around the border towns.
ReplyDeleteI am actually from El Paso, Texas, which is the border town to Juarez, Mexico. Juarez is considered to be the main entry port for illegal drugs into the United States. The violence and death rates are definitely rising and posing a threat to citizens in both sides of the border not just in Mexico. There was a case where a man was kidnapped in El Paso and was taken back across the border by alleged drug dealers. A ransom had to be paid before he was given back to his family 2 weeks later. There is a massive drug war being hosted in Mexico where cartels are competing for the drug routes to the United States. These drug traffickers are more powerful than people think and it has showed. In July 2010 the firs successful car bombing by a drug carted in the north of Mexico brought new loads of terror. I do agree with Margaret that we might not be able to stop drugs from entering our border. Despite the efforts being made by both U.S and Mexico to strengthen civilian law enforcement institutions, I believe that even more must be done to lower the violence. Our Government must be very careful and not underestimate the power that these drugs cartels have as they have already made it clear that they can execute terrorist attacks in the form of car bombings. I believe that this poses a huge threat to our national security and our government must figure our a cautious way to deal with this issue before it is too late.