Race And The War On Drugs - 2119 Words

Ryan Struthers†¦show more content†¦These cause problems that changes everyone around us in different states or people standing next you. It became a law when too many people kept getting caught with it at school or even by the police. It made things much more difficult for the school and cops to do their job and protect everyone if they have to deal with one person or a couple people about it. In the United States if the drug cartels are coming in and out of Mexico, the minimum wage keeps it running because people in the [U.S.] get money from working and keep buying more different and more expensive drugs. But if the minimum wage goes down, so would a lot of other laws that are keeping everything even and the laws staying together. â€Å"Virtually the entire US illicit-drug market is controlled by seven Mexican cartels, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration s 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary† (Bender 1). In Mexico, the drug cartels are a big problem for the U.S. because when the cartel people get arrested they get sent up here so they can’t be broken out of jail. These transportations cost a lot of America’s money that we have to fund for. Joaquin â€Å"El Chapo† Guzman is one of the biggest drug lord in all of Mexico. Mexico wants to send El Chapo up here to the U.S. so he can face the trial up here and go to jail here so he can’t be broken out again. This problem costs a lot of money that