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New Mexico Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
New Mexico is viewed as a hub for substantial quantities of the drug proceeds that are being laundered through small businesses. The majority of the New Mexico/Mexico international border is open desert and is typically uninhabited with several roads, trails, footpaths, and ranches providing smugglers easy entry into America and access to main highways traversing the nation. New Mexico includes over 50,000 square miles of land and is one of the biggest states (geographically); however, it is extremely sparsely populated.
The biggest drug threat in New Mexico is the transshipment of controlled substances and drug proceeds by Mexican drug smuggling organizations. These organizations have also established local poly-drug distribution organizations that have the capability of distributing multiple kilogram amounts on a local and regional level. Another factor substantially affecting New Mexico is the burden drug smuggling and immigration cases place on the federal judicial and corrections system. The U.S. District Court in New Mexico has the biggest caseload per judgeship in the country and has the fourth busiest court in America. The tremendous percentages of the caseload facing the U.S. District Court in New Mexico are drug and immigration cases.
Along with an overflowing court system, New Mexico is seriously lacking in jail space. Present enhanced enforcement operations by the Department of Homeland Security in Arizona will force drug traffickers and alien traffickers to move their trafficking efforts from Arizona to New Mexico. Consequently, this severely affects enforcement activities and judicial proceedings in New Mexico. While more enhancements for Border Patrol agents in southern New Mexico has to some degree facilitated the growing use of southern New Mexico as a feasible route for alien trafficking, there has been a significant rise in the amount of drug apprehensions of illegal immigrants. The substantial rise in drug and alien apprehensions seriously affect enforcement activities and judicial proceedings in New Mexico. The El Paso/Juarez corridor is a transshipment point for cocaine to different locations in America. Apprehended quantities range from 50 to 800 pounds. Cocaine is shipped via New Mexico by Mexican drug smuggling organizations at a rising rate. Multiple kilogram amounts are regularly apprehended from commercial trucks, public shipping, and private vehicles. The most frequent apprehensions are independently owned vehicles interdicted with ten to fifty kilograms of cocaine hidden in their vehicle. Cocaine intercepted in New Mexico is generally destined for Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, and Oklahoma City. Recent cocaine interceptions reflect a probable shift to other destination cites in the East Coast and Midwest. Cocaine is also easily accessible for distribution throughout New Mexico in gram to ounce amounts for local use. Domestic law enforcement authorities regularly rank cocaine and crack distribution and consumption as one of the most dominant drug issues. In New Mexico, there is considerable accessibility of crack cocaine. In smaller communities, such as Silver City and Hobbs, crack consumption and distribution is at a level that is viewed as perilous to the quality of life. Most of the crack available derives from cocaine HCl supplied by Mexican drug smuggling organizations to local crack distributors who then transform the powder cocaine into crack cocaine. Street level distributors can be found in all social and economic layers of the community. The elevated degree of violence related to crack cocaine traffickers are of high concern.
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