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PHOENIX -- By air, land and sea, a former Border Patrol commander said the Mexican drug cartels are using old school and high-tech methods to get their product into the United States.

Ron Colburn said the cartels use catapults to launch drugs into Arizona in addition to dropping pot from ultralight aircraft. And the underground routes continue to be popular as tunnels are being located more often.

"One of these days the entire city of Nogales is going to drop fifty feet because of so many tunnels beneath it."

And it's not just below ground activity, it's underwater too. The cartels are using submarines to move their product.

"They run these small motherlode subs out to sea to meet up with fishing boats and other watercraft off the coast of Southern California."

With the billions of dollars they have stashed, Colburn said the cartels can buy whatever they need to keep their drug trade going.

Jim Cross, Reporter

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    Constitutionalist wrote...
    Ironic
    March 18, 2013 8:34 am
    It is ironic that a criminal drug group centered in Mexico, a nation that has a comparably much higher poverty rate than the USA, has the finances to flaunt the law repeatedly, while the USA government, a government of the wealthiest nation, is floundering in debt and has an administration that is openly against securing the border to the point they have even released criminals into the streets. How did we end up like this as a nation? And will we let it continue?
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    2cents wrote...
    Agree, Constitutionalist
    March 18, 2013 10:00 am
    As a nation we were easily hoodwinked. Even the illegals have no clue that they are blindly hastening their own devasatation. When few people recognize in-your-face overthrow, and simply shrug it off as poor leadership, the nation falls to the conqueror.
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    2cents wrote...
    As for the cartels . . .
    March 18, 2013 10:13 am
    They have long been firmly established throughout the entire US. Aided by a government that looks the other way while declaring the border to be as safe as ever, and who . . . until they got caught . . . delivered free assault weapons, cartels are growing in strength. They send voluntary as well as kidnapped illegals to infiltrate, and our government in turn rewards those encroachers with entitlements while the nation collapses upon itself.
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    UZI wrote...
    Americans are diligent at watching the front door
    March 18, 2013 6:44 pm
    but wildly complacent regarding the back, side and windows. Every enemy on the planet knew, emphasis on knew, that they would be anilatated if they attacked head on. So, they tactfully found a weak spot and exploited the bejesus out of it. And now, thanks to obama, they "know" they are very close to walking in the front door and finishing the job of bringing the US to its knees. They, china, russia, mexico, are completing against each other to be the first to get the bigger peice of the pie when we collapse.
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