![]() He’s accused of stirring up hatred with his attacks on Muslims, Mexicans, a reporter with a disability, an American war hero’s family? No, Hillary Clinton is full of hate. Did he get caught on a video boasting about how he forced himself on women because a star can do whatever he wants? No, her husband is worse, and Mr. He threatened her and hurled accusations, his words matching his posture. They jabbed at each other, in their very different ways. She was largely stone-faced when he spoke, except when she allowed a few smiles of undisguised disdain. She, meanwhile, placed herself right in front of him, moving close to her questioners, trying to lock gazes with them and project empathy. When he wasn’t walking, he gripped the back of his chair, rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet. Trump prowled the stage last night, frowning, pacing, looming over Hillary Clinton. Ioan Grillo is the author of “Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America” and a contributing opinion writer.ĭonald J. When it does deport drug lords to these nations, there is no issue on their receiving them, such as this year when the convicted trafficker Jesus Hector “El Guero” Palma was deported to Mexico after serving a sentence. In some cases, they’re murderers, drug lords.”Īctually, the United States works to extradite drug lords from nations, including Mexico and Colombia to serve prison time on American soil. Trump also made a curious case that nations refuse to receive deported drug lords.Īs he said: “We have many criminal illegal aliens, when we want to send them back to their country, their country says we don’t want them. However, the amount of heroin and crystal meth being seized on the border has gone up in recent years – but again probably because of changes in the patterns of American drug consumption rather than a weakness in border security. ![]() The amount of cocaine being seized has also gone down over the last two decades – most likely because of a decline in the crack cocaine use in American inner cities. ![]() That is most likely because of the legalization of marijuana for recreational or medicinal use in a growing number of American states – so Americans are buying more cannabis grown in the United States. The amount of marijuana being seized on the southern border, which far outweighs the other drugs, has gone down from 2.5 million pounds in 2011 to 1.5 million pounds last year. He said, “We are also letting drugs pour through our southern border at a record clip.” Trump got his facts wrong and made a misleading argument. Having covered this important issue for years, I find it refreshing to see it even mentioned in the debate. Trump went into a short foray about drug lords and drug trafficking, spinning off a question about Syrian refugees. ![]()
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