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Violent crime along the United States & Mexico border increasingly is coming northward into the cities of the American Southwest.

Another visible effect of the cross-border crime wave is the flood of drugs into the country.
Anthony Coulson, assistant special agent in charge of the DEA in Arizona, said records indicate that cocaine and heroin seizures might end up 2X as high as 2006. Marijuana seizures are increasing 25%; 9 months into the current fiscal year, he said, they had seized more pot than all of last year, "and 2006 was a record year, " Coulson said.

In the Tucson sector alone there has been a 71% increase in marijuana seizures over the past year, with the U.S. Border Patrol reporting almost six hundred fifty thousand pounds grabbed since October. In Phoenix, deputies are working the unsolved case of thirteen illegal aliens who were kidnapped and murdered in the desert. Across the Southwest, dozens of high school students have died in the past 2 years from overdoses of Mexican "cheese heroin."

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio holds ten thousand inmates in his jail and overflow tents; two thousand of them, he said, are "criminal aliens" from the border. It is his deputies who are investigating the deaths of thirteen murdered in the desert.

Sierra Vista, Ariz., learned firsthand of the rising violence in 2004, when police pursued a pickup carrying twenty four illegal immigrants on the border town's main drag, Buffalo Soldier Trail. Speeds reached over one hundred miles per hour. The truck went airborne, hit a half dozen cars, killing a recently married couple waiting at a stoplight.

"It was just the worst kind of tragedy," said Ed Rheinheimer, the Cochise County attorney. "The coyotes [smugglers] are just more willing to either shoot at the police, fight with the police or to try to flee."

Jennifer Allen, director of the nonprofit Border Action Network in Tucson, Ariz., which supports immigrants' rights, said Washington, D.C., and Mexico City need fresh approaches. "The smugglers are no longer mom-and-pop organizations. Now it's an industry," she said. "So the violence increases. That's incredibly predictable."

In Scottsdale, said Sheriff Arpaio, a cartel operative was openly selling heroin to high school students. "He was getting 150 calls a day on his cellphone," the sheriff said.

The DEA believes 80% of the crystal meth in the USA is coming from labs in Mexico, which were set up after police raids shut down many of the USA labs.

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