Why is there so much corruption in Mexico? Because of the drug
cartels and the drug money, the tens or hundreds of billions of
dollars--billions, with a B, of dollars--that has gone to the drug
cartels through the purchases of drugs, and, of course, they have
gotten into bringing people across the border illegally. Border patrolmen have told me on many occasions I have been down
there during the night that there is not an inch of the border between
Mexico and the United States that is not under the auspices of some
drug cartel. Some drug cartels, I was told, allow some Mexican gangs to carry out
their jurisdiction and enforce their jurisdiction on that part of the
border they control, but what the border patrolmen would tell me is
that there is no one who comes across the border illegally in that drug
cartel's sector who does not pay or does not do something to get the
permission of the drug cartel to come in; because they are all told,
when they are brought in illegally, that for those who still owe money
and have agreed to work in the city where you are ordered to go by the
drug cartel, if you fail to keep paying the drug cartels the money you
owe them, you keep selling drugs to repay the money or engage in
prostitution to repay the money, if you fail to do that: We have people
all over the U.S. They will come and they will kill you. This stuff is going on in the United States.
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Undocumented immigrants are controlled by drug cartels and forced into crime or prostitution to pay debts.
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