Cartels outrun, outgun the law at Ariz. border

Cartels outrun, outgun the law at Ariz. border: “Hovering above the Tohono-O’odham Reservation recently, Harris pointed to a volcanic hill riddled with campsites where cartel ’spotters’ take up key lookout positions to alert smugglers of nearby patrols. Such hideouts dot just about every hill Harris scouts in the 90 miles between Marana and Why in Pima County.

There are more than 100 well-armed Mexican spotters operating in Arizona at any time, Harris and federal agents estimate. The camps show how pervasive the Mexican drug-smuggling operation has become and why congressional investigators said last week that cartels ‘operate with relative impunity along the U.S. border.’

Mexican smuggling rings, now allied with Colombian cartels, outspend, outgun and frequently outmaneuver government agents from both sides of the border because of enormous revenues and cunning operations. The drug war is a mismatch in both countries. At best, government statistics show, one load in 10 is seized at the border, where Arizona has become the busiest marijuana-smuggling route. “

The question should be, why do we allow it to go on? The US can stop the drug cartel people from crossing the border but it will take some armed troops and some political backbone.