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Frack the Border: Cartels Using Oil Boom to Move Drugs
Grimnir Freeman July 17, 2012 Leave a Comment on Frack the Border: Cartels Using Oil Boom to Move Drugs
Ignore its proximity to the border, and the Texas fracking boom is like many others around America. Trucks hauling construction supplies barrel down country highways. Boom towns, sprawling networks of new private roads and hundreds of drilling sites have popped up. But the boom for Texas tea — oil and gas, that is — has inadvertently torn a giant hole in the Border Patrol’s defenses.
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