Crime in Mexico In just six years‚ society witnessed the rise in drug related crimes throughout Mexico. Beginning in 2012‚ fewer crimes pertaining to the revolting drug violence have been reported. Where there are thousands of innocent civilians that have lost their lives in the past‚ due to the drug war. Can this assumption be trusted? Or is the media simply withholding information from the rest of the world? Violence relating to drugs has long existed in Mexico before it brought attention to the outside
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antagonist‚ from the terror of drug cartels‚ to the health effects of the drug itself. Discussions about legalization of cannabis use‚ and moral justification resurface time and time again‚ prompting people to wonder: Would legalization solve these issues‚ or continue to hurt society? One reoccurring social issue in the U.S. is the rate at which jails and prisons are filling up. A large percentage of inmates have been convicted for possession of marijuana‚ but if the drug was made legal‚ fewer convicts
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Abstract Marijuana is the people’s drug of choice; it’s the most popular drug of all the drugs. Made famous in movies (Cheech and Chong)‚ hit an all-time boom in the 60’s when smoke to rebel against law enforcement. It is popular even though it is illegal in the United States; I explain in this paper why we should take advantage of its popularity and help our struggling economy. How we can use the way Amsterdam regulates its recreational marijuana‚ and implement it in the United States. Violence
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Cited: Guither‚ Pete. Drug WarRant. Drug WarRant‚ 2010 Web. 24 Sep. 2010 Yes on Prop 19. S.K. Seymour LLC‚ dba Oaksterdam University‚ 2010 Web. 24 Sep. 2010
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Pedro Avilés Pérez‚ Joaquin Guzmán’s uncle. Aviles was a key player in the Sinaloa drug business‚ seen as a pioneer for finding new methods of transporting the rural produce to urban areas for shipment by way of airplanes. He is reportedly the first to use airplanes to smuggle cocaine to the United States. By the time Guzmán was in his 20s‚ his connection to Aviles would be his window of opportunity to start in the drug business and make his fortune. In the late 1970s‚ Héctor "El Güero" Luis Palma
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According to the Huffington Post‚ El Salvador‚ Guatemala‚ and Honduras - where most of these immigrants come from - are all in the top five countries with the highest homicide rates‚ so if the United States is a country of diversity‚ liberty‚ and freedom‚ why build a wall to block out those who want a chance of decent life? During our current president Trump’s candidacy‚ he proposed the idea of building a border wall between the United States and Mexico. As a majority of the population has obviously
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roughly $6.2 billion. In fact‚ some studies show that nationwide profits could even climb as high as $40 billion dollars per year (Miron‚ paragraph 4-5). Across the nation our jails are packed with non-violent people who are there for misdemeanor drug convictions. The savings that legalization of marijuana would yield in reduced costs to penal institutions is in fact one of the leading reasons for minimizing penalties required of individuals found guilty of possession of marijuana. The reduction
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with immigrant workers who will perform the same job duties for lower wages. Advocates that side with the illegal immigrants say that the immigrants fill jobs that Americans won’t. Another huge issue with illegal immigration is the war on drugs. Mexican drug cartels transport hundreds of kilos of cocaine‚ heroine‚ and marijuana into the Unites States across the border every day. Mexico has been widely unable to
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but unlike most states Texas is a state that shares a 1‚254-mile long border with Mexico‚ a country that has their massive problems. Geography alone has provided Texas with problems that are difficult in the best of times‚ but in this age of a huge drug problem in the United States along with the rise of international terrorism‚ those problems have grown exponentially. While it is easy to sit back in the United States and spout out rhetoric claiming that all immigrants should be wholly welcomed‚ the
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Thesis Statement: You should not visit Mexico due to the potential risk of your safety from the ongoing violence of the drug cartels in Mexico. 　 I. Introduction A. Did you know over 60‚000 lives have been lost due to conflicts of the cartel over territory in Mexico? That including 5‚000 disappearances going to Mexico since 2006. 1. Knowing this‚ would you want to take a trip to Mexico to be sitting in the middle of a war? a. Even incoming president for Mexico‚ Pena Nieto‚ said
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