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...the amount of heroin and meth seized along the border has risen threefold over the past five years, helping to fuel an opiate epidemic and contributing to drug overdoses overtaking car accidents as the top cause of injury deaths in the US.
But he says the cartels are brutal in how they treat migrants, describing cases where women are repeatedly raped and men have their fingers cut off. Sue Chilton says the couple are not scared, but says that when they notice that drug smugglers are in the area they turn off the lights and lay low in their kitchen until the mules have left.
“How do we protect ourselves? We pack guns,” says Mr Chilton, who owns a .223 calibre ranch rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a Smith and Wesson pistol. “I have a gun with me everywhere I go.”
FT.com
But he says the cartels are brutal in how they treat migrants, describing cases where women are repeatedly raped and men have their fingers cut off. Sue Chilton says the couple are not scared, but says that when they notice that drug smugglers are in the area they turn off the lights and lay low in their kitchen until the mules have left.
“How do we protect ourselves? We pack guns,” says Mr Chilton, who owns a .223 calibre ranch rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a Smith and Wesson pistol. “I have a gun with me everywhere I go.”
FT.com
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It's Elementary!
