remain a principal organized crime entity throughout the united states. they re brutal with the mexican population and increasingly present in every one of the major american cities and international. they re now flooding europe, africa, the middle east, russia with cocaine so it s a huge deal. i m proud to see that the department of justice is moving so strongly against them general, there are multi-national institutions and also widespread in what they traffic in from fentanyl to cocaine to heroin to human smuggling, human exploitation it seems as if there is no crime that they re not involved with well, no question and they have got such enormous resources. they can overwhelm, you know, texas or arizona or new mexico or california border law enforcement agencies they can hire international legal firms and public relations