Mexican Drug War:
1.) Timeline: December 11, 2006 to Present-day
2.) Deaths: An estimated 200,000 men, women and children have been killed within Mexico, the US and Canada due to the Mexican Drug Wars since December 2006. 97% of the victims were killed within 100 miles of the border of the US and Mexico.
3.) Out of the 200,000 victims killed were 25,339 men, women and children in 2017 alone
4.) The break-down of murders since 2006 is the following:
- 4,020 were Mexican Federal, State and local police officers
- 395 were Mexican soldiers
- 511 American men, women and children were killed between 2006-2012 (recent numbers are confidential)
- 58 journalists
5.) An estimated 30,000 men, women and children have been kidnapped by the Mexican Drug Cartels since 2006 including many American, Canadian and European citizens within Mexico – the vast majority of those were tourists or short-stay businessmen/women.
6.) Mexican Drug Cartels deal in: public and private killings, home invasions and kidnappings within Mexico, the US and Canada; human trafficking of illegal immigrants; forced prostitution, rape and enslavement of men, women and children and of course illegal drugs and weapons
- The Mexican Drug Cartels control 90% of Cocaine entering the US.
- The Mexican Drug Cartels have forced between 16,000-20,000 children (under the age of 18) into forced prostitution as sex slaves.
7.) On July 13, 2009 the Canadian Government created a visa requirement for Mexican citizens entering Canada.
- The reasons for the visa requirement: refugee claims from Mexican citizens in Canada went from 3,500 in 2005 to 9,500 in 2008, the Mexican immigration violation rate within Canada increased as did the human and drug trafficking from Mexico to Canada.
- On December 1, 2016 Justin Trudeau lifted the visa requirement for Mexicans entering Canada so that Mexico would lift a 2003 ban on Canadian beef. Both Liberal Party and Conservative Party government officials criticized the move due to Mexico’s weak passport system, fake asylum claims from Mexicans, the increase of human and drug trafficking and more involvement in Canada of Mexican organized crime.
- Statistics Canada predicted the net cost of lifting the visa requirement for Mexican citizens to cost the Canadian Government $262 million CDN in the next 10 years for additional Canadian immigration enforcement resources within Canada and Mexico
So people who say building a fence/wall/barrier along the US-Mexican border as well as doing more on the US-Canadian border is “immoral” or “medieval” are not the most intelligent of people who deal with facts. They are selfish people promoting their own political agenda over logic and facts. They are literally putting money over human lives.
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