The growth of international criminal gangs in the U.S. in recent years is due primarily to what?

The growth of international criminal gangs in the U.S. in recent years is due primarily to:



A. Increasing internal demand for narcotics and controlled substances.

B. Ineffective control of the U.S. border despite the provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

C. The expansion of naroterrorism gangs along America's southern border.

D. All of the above.





"U.S. faces lethal combination of transnational terrorism and criminal gangs"



http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-f…



Sometime in the near future a lethal combination of transnational terrorism and criminal gangs is going to cross the U.S. border in force.



With American attention focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic crisis, national security experts have largely overlooked the bitter countercartel war in Mexico (see “U.S. Worried that Mexico May Be on Verge of Collapse,” 24 January 2009 HS Daily Wire). Col. Robert Killebrew (Ret.) writes that that war, which is beginning to overlap the U.S. border, is only the forerunner of an even more serious threat. Sometime in the near future a lethal combination of transnational terrorism and criminal gangs is going to cross the U.S. border in force. According to some, it already has, and we haven’t even noticed.



Concern about transnational terrorism and organized crime is not new. The end of the cold war spurred the growth of international gangs newly freed from state controls and made available on the gray market enormous quantities of arms and arms-related materials. At the same time, Killebrew writes, revolutionary groups in South and Central America began diversifying from social revolution into the enormously profitable drug trade that serves North America, turning thousands of trained soldiers into drug mercenaries in the services of organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and others. In Mexico, powerful criminal families began organizing the cartels that today are challenging the Mexican state. At the same time, criminal gangs - the hired guns of the Mexican cartels - began a period of exponential growth, in Latin America and in the U.S.The growth of international criminal gangs in the U.S. in recent years is due primarily to what?
migrating crimeThe growth of international criminal gangs in the U.S. in recent years is due primarily to what?
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Not a credible source.The growth of international criminal gangs in the U.S. in recent years is due primarily to what?
forgot the question, if there was one, think the drug armies of the night would be greatly reduced if penalties for some drugs were eliminated or reduced, and a sane policy pursued by the politicians of this country who gave us what we now have
Very good post.. and thank you.