Arrested Development - Ex-Pats Mexico

Setting Up Shop in California Parks

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Inside Mexico's Drug Tunnels

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So far, the extreme violence that the Mexican cartels practice back home hasn't spilled over to California. Up north, says one Drug Enforcement Administration agent, "They're better behaved." But the main Mexican cartels — La Familia, Los Gueros, the Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels — are all growing cannabis in California, and have ties with Hispanic gangs in 240 cities across the U.S.

Many times, in fact, the cartel will encircle their marijuana plots with deadly booby-traps, such as buried spikes or shotgun shells attached to a trip-wire. "They're rigged to go off if anyone wanders in.

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what do they do with all that dirt?