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Mexican Nationals Caught in NY with Enough Drugs to Kill 32 Million People

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NEW YORK — The middle-aged couple in the station wagon went shopping at a New Jersey Walmart on a warm night in August. They stopped for dinner at an IHOP on the way home. And when they arrived at their apartment building in a quiet residential section of Queens, the narcotics agents *following them got a warrant to go inside.

It was the largest fentanyl seizure in U.S. history. There was enough inside the apartment to kill 32 million people, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The married couple who were arrested, Rogelio Alvarado-Robles, 55, and Blanca Flores-
Solis, 52, had no criminal record in the United States. They had flown to New York a few weeks earlier with Mexican passports. They had no weapons.

But they were drug cartel emissaries, investigators said, sent to broker the sale of tens of millions of dollars’ worth of narcotics, like pharmaceutical executives on a business trip.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.db22920d898e

More than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased fivefold.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50, replacing suicide and car accidents, the two previous most common causes. Mexican drug cartels are a much bigger threat to American lives than terrorism, police shootings, or suicide. Drug cartels can only thrive if we allow them to, and sadly, we do.
 
More than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased fivefold.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50, replacing suicide and car accidents, the two previous most common causes. Mexican drug cartels are a much bigger threat to American lives than terrorism, police shootings, or suicide. Drug cartels can only thrive if we allow them to, and sadly, we do.

And what do you propose we do?
 
More than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased fivefold.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50, replacing suicide and car accidents, the two previous most common causes. Mexican drug cartels are a much bigger threat to American lives than terrorism, police shootings, or suicide. Drug cartels can only thrive if we allow them to, and sadly, we do.

Oh noes----Mexicans! :eek:
 
Oh noes----Mexicans! :eek:

Do you understand that the problem is so bad that there are calls for all first responders to carry overdose pens and kits? And they can be pricey for no good reason, it's just that America cant seem to manage anymore.
 
And what do you propose we do?

What we should do, is put people who do this is jail for life. No plea bargains, no early release, no parole. That's a tough stance, not the crap we hand out now.
 
What we should do, is put people who do this is jail for life. No plea bargains, no early release, no parole. That's a tough stance, not the crap we hand out now.

I disagree.

People who have such blatant and deliberate disregard for human life do not deserve the luxury of "jail for life". They deserve death.
 
What we should do, is put people who do this is jail for life. No plea bargains, no early release, no parole. That's a tough stance, not the crap we hand out now.

How exactly would that solve problem? They will just be replaced.
 
How exactly would that solve problem? They will just be replaced.

Ok, I'll go a step further and agree with Mycroft. If they keep coming, we keep culling the stupid out. win-win
 
And what do you propose we do?

Build a wall, virtually and otherwise.

These people are nothing more than terrorists with a different type weapon and no ideology.

Plus most are in this country illegally. Having law enforcement actually impose their will against these foreign invaders goes a long way.
 
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Build a wall, virtually and otherwise.

These people are nothing more than terrorists with a different type weapon and no ideology.

Plus most are in this country illegally. Having law enforcement actually impose their will against these foreign invaders goes a long way.

But these criminals entered the US legally by plane. A wall is not going to stop that.
 
What we should do, is put people who do this is jail for life. No plea bargains, no early release, no parole. That's a tough stance, not the crap we hand out now.

That would be treating the symptoms without identifying the disease. We should start by asking why we have such a huge market for drugs. This is about more than just about Mexicans and some inconvenient drug addicts.
Just like with gun violence, the drugs are just a manifestation of something that goes much deeper.
I see it as another topic where we should come together instead of beating each other over our partisan brows.
 
That would be treating the symptoms without identifying the disease. We should start by asking why we have such a huge market for drugs. This is about more than just about Mexicans and some inconvenient drug addicts.
Just like with gun violence, the drugs are just a manifestation of something that goes much deeper.
I see it as another topic where we should come together instead of beating each other over our partisan brows.

The manufacturer of oxycontin and the industry surrounding it, is why we have an opiate problem.

But they make big campaign contributions.

So its somebody else's fault.

Politics as usual.
 
And what do you propose we do?

Well, after Bashar Assad allegedly killed 40 of his own people recently, we spent $50 million to bomb his assets, with Trump calling the the airstrikes a 'national security issue'

Yet 60k Americans being poisoned by foreign cartels doesn't meet the qualifications of a national security issue?

My proposal is to call our troops back from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and have them fight the drug cartels until they no longer exist.

We also have to deal with the pharmaceutical companies in a much more serious way. Big pharma execs who deliberately profit from addiction should be imprisoned.

My ideas would eliminate overdose deaths in a year or two. Politicians and the public don't have the stomach to solve the problem unfortunately.
 
More than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased fivefold.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50, replacing suicide and car accidents, the two previous most common causes. Mexican drug cartels are a much bigger threat to American lives than terrorism, police shootings, or suicide. Drug cartels can only thrive if we allow them to, and sadly, we do.

But - aren't the drugs just inanimate objects?
 
More than 60,000 people died from overdoses in the United States last year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased fivefold.

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50, replacing suicide and car accidents, the two previous most common causes. Mexican drug cartels are a much bigger threat to American lives than terrorism, police shootings, or suicide. Drug cartels can only thrive if we allow them to, and sadly, we do.

Thats it... ban Mexicans from the United States.
 
That would be treating the symptoms without identifying the disease. We should start by asking why we have such a huge market for drugs. This is about more than just about Mexicans and some inconvenient drug addicts.
Just like with gun violence, the drugs are just a manifestation of something that goes much deeper.
I see it as another topic where we should come together instead of beating each other over our partisan brows.

We should start by sending in some SEAL teams... lighting cartel houses with some IR and sending in a whole bunch of cruise missiles.
 
But these criminals entered the US legally by plane. A wall is not going to stop that.

They should have been shot out of the sky...
 
They should have been shot out of the sky...

You still on vacation? My wife is out of town for a week starting Monday. I went grocery shopping yesterday. My first meal is going to be chili and steak.
 
You still on vacation? My wife is out of town for a week starting Monday. I went grocery shopping yesterday. My first meal is going to be chili and steak.

Yes. For a few weeks. Tacos tonight...
 
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