In Texas, Mexican drug cartels are becoming more bold. They have started recruiting younger children to do simple tasks for them for monetary incentives. These younger kids are making it harder for Law Enforcement to determine drug activity, not impossible though. More teens are getting arrested with drug offences in Texas. The reason they are using kids is because of the supposed innocence of the kid, also the law hands out not as harsh sentences to teens and minors. Teens have been arrested for moving vehicles from one point to another point with minor to massive amounts of drugs.
This just irritates the crud out of me. For a drug cartel to go so low as to recruit younger teens to do this just makes me mad. These kids could have a life, but this is ruing it. These cartels need to get out of the country and stop doing services in this country. I know that SW Missouri is a long way from southern Texas but it still makes me upset. I know that law enforcement is doing what they can but I believe that the education system and parents need to step up to the plate and make a difference.
I have been fascinated with the rise of these cartels and the heinous acts they are committing, but I have to let you know that I am from Richmond California (just north of Oakland) and kids have been involved in drug and other gang activity for decades. This type of activity is normal in American inner-cities and the sad thing is, no one cares! The thing about the Mexican cartel activity that I don't like is when they kill innocent Americans and no one (including our government) does anything about it. It is getting pretty hairy in Southern Texas. Even after seeing the way things are in Richmond and Oakland, I would prefer to live there over south Texas any day.
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