As US land borders tighten, drug smugglers fly | ajc.com: "A near-disastrous collision this month between a military helicopter training over the Southern California desert and an ultralight airplane buzzing toward Mexico illustrated how drug smugglers are using the low-flying aircraft to circumvent new fences along the U.S. border.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
May 2, 2011
Whack-a-mole: As US land borders tighten, drug smugglers fly
Those moles just keep outsmarting us.
As US land borders tighten, drug smugglers fly | ajc.com: "A near-disastrous collision this month between a military helicopter training over the Southern California desert and an ultralight airplane buzzing toward Mexico illustrated how drug smugglers are using the low-flying aircraft to circumvent new fences along the U.S. border.
And in a new twist, the planes rarely touch the ground. Pilots simply pull levers that drop aluminum bins filled with about 200 pounds of marijuana for drivers who are waiting on the ground with blinking lights or glow-sticks. Within a few minutes, the pilots are back in Mexico."
As US land borders tighten, drug smugglers fly | ajc.com: "A near-disastrous collision this month between a military helicopter training over the Southern California desert and an ultralight airplane buzzing toward Mexico illustrated how drug smugglers are using the low-flying aircraft to circumvent new fences along the U.S. border.
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