America’s Demand For Drugs Is Fueling Illegal Immigration

‘A new feature in the New York Times describes in detail the steady stream of drugs, money and guns that cycle back and forth between the United States and Mexico.
They’re all connected, says Doug Coleman, a DEA official based in Phoenix, Arizona. Politicians can blame the drug cartels all they want for supplying “the poison that’s killing our children,” but everything boils down to Americans’ insatiable demand for drugs.
“Our appetite for drugs in the country is having an impact on the south and driving people from those countries,” said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank. Instead, tough-on-crime politicians harp on about building walls to keep the drugs out.’
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