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Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- April 28
Louise Schiavone, CNN: Warring drug gangs took their bloody business to the streets of Tijuana, Mexico, this weekend in a running gun battle that left at least 13 people dead and five injured. Mexican authorities say it was one of the bloodiest confrontations in recent memory.
James Roberts, Heritage Foundation: The terrible shoot-out over the weekend is just -- I mean one of the most vivid examples of something that's going on all the time.
Schiavone: A drug enforcement administration official told Congress recently quote, "Mexico produces much of the methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana consumed by Americans. Approximately 90 percent of the cocaine entering the U.S. transits Mexico", end quote. In a 2005 study the DEA estimated Americans spend roughly $65 billion a year on illegal drugs, only one billion of that is seized. Enter the banks.
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