Asian migrants are paying up to US $40,000 to reach the United States via Mexico, according to the newspaper El Universal, while Central Americans pay between $10,000 and $12,000.

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Mexico has become the United States’ leading supplier of heroin, and this increase in local production may also lead to increased availability in Mexico. Currently, Mexico is the world’s third-largest producer of heroin, with more than 28 000 hectares (close to 70 000 acres) of land believed to be used for opium cultivation, potentially producing 499 tons of heroin per year

Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitous-Washington Examiner

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A 65-yr-old man was arrested today at a Barcelona airport after $34,000 of cocaine was found underneath his toupee, according to Spain's National Police.
The police posted photos of the man showing his enormous hairpiece side-by-side with a photo of the drugs
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