Why is it not one of
the top 10? We keep coming back to the drug cartels and the corruption
that they have brought to Mexico and the billions of dollars that are
generated by the drug cartels. As we have talked about here in the House, the border patrolmen tell
me--I have been there all night--there is not a single inch of the
U.S.-Mexico border that is not controlled by one of the drug cartels
and that nobody should cross the border unless they have paid the drug
cartels, have the drug cartels' permission. I have seen firsthand how it works. They will send a group across the
river with coyotes in rafts when they are down on the Rio Grande. That
keeps the Border Patrol busy. At another place, they send people with
drugs. I have been there and seen their lookouts, climbed up on perches
where they can watch. When the Border Patrol goes by, they know they
won't be back for a while, so they get surprised when I drive by in the
middle of the night. They are all over the place around our southern border. They are
making billions of dollars. Whoever came up with the business model for
the drug cartels that you could make such massive amounts of money
bringing drugs illegally into the United States, it was really a
business genius. But it would take a business fool in the United States
to allow the kind of model that Mexico has set up for its drug business
to even get a foothold in the United States. As I have mentioned, one of the Border Patrol told me that the drug
cartels call the Department of Homeland Security their logistics. They
bring their drug dealers. They bring their drug traffickers.
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