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MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS TAKING AMERICA HIGH SCHOOL BY HIGH SCHOOL
October 17 2011
Laredo, TX – it has become clear in the last few years that the growing power and influence of the drug cartels in Mexico is not going to remain isolated to that country. Multiple incursions into American territory, which have caused the deaths of a number of U.S. citizens, have made it very clear to the politicians and the people near the border that the problem is only getting bigger.
Most affected by those incursions are border cities such as Laredo where the porous border has meant an increasing drug problem stateside, and now new evidence suggests that that may not just be casual overflow, that drug cartels may be deliberately targeting the United States for takeover.
In particular, it appears that the cartels have focussed on high schools to not only spread drugs, but to increase their influence, influence they hope to spread throughout the state of Texas and across the country until the United States is a single drug-addled nation under cartel control, something officials fear may happen sooner rather than later.
“In one Texas border county, more than 25 juveniles have been arrested for drug trafficking within the past year,” said a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety. “Last week, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) apprehended a 12-year-old boy in a border county driving a stolen pickup truck containing more than 800 pounds of marijuana.” 
The DPS is asking state officials to please think of the children. Thus far, little has been done to crack down on the growing incursions into U.S. soil.
The Federal Government, it is believed, is also not thinking of the children.
“This is a big concern for us here in the state of Texas. Austin just ain’t listening and neither is Washington. We are here on the forefront of the drug trade and our kids are being put in the middle. If this continues this way, pretty soon there will be no stopping the cartels ever,” said one local who has high school aged children. “This is where they start, they make the kids dependent on them for drugs and money, and then they start to move outwards. Folks may think this is just a Texas problem, but when these cartels start showing up in New York or Boston they will be singing a different tune and by then it will be too late.”
It’s not clear how much time the country has before it’s too late, but it’s believed to be a number of years, possibly even decades.
“There is no doubt that this is a problem stateside and it is going to grow. Drugs are big business and eventually they will run out of people to addict in Mexico and they will be forced to move into new territories. I think, though, that this nightmare scenario where the cartels take over the country might be a little extreme,” said Scrape TV American analyst Dave Davidson. “There are regional drug powers that they will have difficulty in overcoming and, the truth is, the bigger you become the harder it is to maintain your network. Sometimes it’s better to remain small, which they won’t, but that will cause them to collapse. Or not, this could be the one time and then the whole country is kinda screwed. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.”
No one else we spoke to was thinking of the children.
William Ashford, Business Correspondent
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