Are Sanctuary cities part of drug cartels business plan?

WHY WOULD BIG CITIES PREFER TO PROTECT CRIMINAL ALIENS?

IS IT PROFITABLE TO BE A SANCTUARY CITY?

After watching a few documentary's on the drug cartels south of our border, one thing is consistent, pay off the bureaucrats and politicians. Offer them a choice of a stick or a carrot and the carrot is often very enticing. Pablo Escobar literally had the whole area around Medellin, Columbia on his payroll, he had so much money pouring in that it just made sense to give money away to the cooperative. Some low level bureaucrats were receiving $200,000 and up, mayors and judges were much more discreet but it was very profitable to be cooperative with the cartel. Escobar, born into a poor farm family, started in the smuggling business, he found that it was good to spread the profits around to border guards and customs agents. When the Cocaine craze started in the 1970's Escobar teamed up with suppliers in Peru and provided transportation and distribution, he would soon take over all aspects of the business and was eventually able to earn $20 billion  in business a year. When asked as to what were the basics of his business, he answered, "bribe people here and bribe people there, the rest is easy". He had a interesting life, was involved with the death of 10's of thousands including over 600 policemen. He was killed in 1993. Part of his distribution network into the U.S. was run by the Mexican cartels. Joquin "El Chapo" Guzman was part of the Sinoloa cartel, he eventually took full control of the cartel and became the major source of drugs into the U.S.. His main distribution point is Chicago, and they distributed, marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and other drugs. When they saw the increased legalization of marijuana they moved more heavily into heroin. The Sinoloa Cartel is the major source of Heroin into the United States. El Chapo was arrested and imprisoned earlier this year, but the cartel is still in business.

So, one has to wonder, why the mayors of many large cities say they will resist the arrest and deportation of criminal illegal aliens from their cities? If you look at the business model of all the drug cartels it is the same, bribe politicians, bureaucrats and police. If they take the money, you have leverage on them, if they don't take the money, punish them or their families . We see 4 or 5 dozen shootings in Chicago every weekend, with usually around a dozen deaths. It is acknowledged that this is drug business feuding. I am sure the violence in many other cities is also part of this business. We can only assume that, just as in the 1930's prohibition era, political corruption is widespread. These problems probably cannot be solved by city and state government. If a hard crack-down is initiated, the violence will most likely get worse before it gets better.


originally published 12/2/2016