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6 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Between this and Biden's visit to El Paso, it must have shifted a lot of traffic to the east. We crossed back into Texas at Laredo Saturday night/Sunday morning and from the time we got in line to the time we cleared customs it was 8.5 hours.

Shit I was thinking about hitting up Matamoros with a South Padre trip in a few weeks, but hell no with those waits.

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We should add weed to NAFTA and import that along with avocados & limes.

Only partially kidding, evidently New Jalisco has already taken over a lot of the ag sector, but what the hell. Just get them to concentrate on legal marijuana, which could be lucrative and employ a lot of people, and get them to stop exporting Meth and Fentanyl ffs.

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2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Shit I was thinking about hitting up Matamoros with a South Padre trip in a few weeks, but hell no with those waits.

these wait times aren't typical at all. it's all the US people returning from Mexico after spending Christmas/NYE there

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10 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Between this and Biden's visit to El Paso, it must have shifted a lot of traffic to the east. We crossed back into Texas at Laredo Saturday night/Sunday morning and from the time we got in line to the time we cleared customs it was 8.5 hours.

Get Sentri or cross at Colombia

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13 hours ago, Bevo said:

Why have prescriptions, then? Just legalize everything. If fentanyl is legal to sell, I see no reason for control of Tylenol 3, oxycodone, morphine, and then by extension everything else. Why would it be fine to buy morphine and heroin on the streets and not amoxicillin? 

Answering this against my better judgment, but overuse of antibiotics helps train diseases to fight said medicines and kill us with more efficiency. Opiates don't do that -- in fact, pure opiates are not that bad for your body at all, aside from the risk of addiction and overdose. Cocaine messes with your heart and nervous system, alcohol destroys your liver and kidneys, benzos are similiar, but the danger of opiates does not come from what they do to your internal organs but from how they rewire your brain. 

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1 minute ago, williemackgarza said:


Come on, man.
We cross colombia to hunt.
Dont need more prople there!

I don't think you're gonna see a mass rush of surlyites to Colombia. The car traffic is still pretty light. Most of the snowbird RV traffic and other people scared of Laredo/Tamaulipas in general cross at Eagle Pass.

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Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence.

Guzman, 64, was sentenced to life behind bars in the United States for a drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades.

Guzman has lived in poor conditions in prison since his 2019 conviction, said José Refugio Rodríguez, a Mexican lawyer who claims to represent him. Rodríguez told local media that Guzman hasn't had adequate access to sunlight, visits, good food or medical care.

The Mexican Embassy in Washington said in its Twitter account that it had received an email from Rodríguez about the issue and had turned it over to Mexico's Foreign relations Department.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said “we will review it,” adding: “You always have to keep the door open when it comes to human rights.”

The U.S. and Mexico have a prison transfer agreement that allows inmates convicted in one country to serve out their sentence in their home country under certain circumstances. But given Guzman's crimes, his sentence and the risks he purportedly still poses, many doubt the agreement would apply in his case.

Good luck with that, dude. 

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On 1/11/2023 at 10:52 AM, YGIFS said:

It's been supposed to spill over since the War on Drugs went full throttle in the 1980's.  40 years later, there is no en masse cartel violence in the United States border states/cities.  Every year is supposed to the year, it's the Aggie Football of politics.  My mother's family stretches from Brownsville to Rio Grande City.  They don't shop in Mexico anymore and they barely use their deadbolts at home.    

As more and more states legalize more and more drugs, the violence in Mexico will get worse.  And the violence in the United States will decline.  Our own internal drug trade does just fine visiting violence upon itself without any help from our neighbors to the South.

I'm more curious what Americans who think the U.S. border towns have been warzones all this time, believe happens to drugs once they cross our border in bulk.  The mule isn't going to continue on across our interstate highway system.  Too big a risk.  You'd be very surprised how bulk narcotics make their way to distribution hubs around the country.  Hint, it isn't the cartels.  

 

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