Traffickers at the El Chapo trial say drugs aren't smuggled through open parts of the border

[mucifer]

New York (CNN)Most drugs are smuggled into the United States onboard fishing boats, trains, tractor-trailers and ordinary cars that come into the country at legal ports of entry, according to former cartel members who've testified in the trial of notorious cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Some cartel members have testified about using underground tunnels. But none have said they've transported drugs into the United States at unwalled sections of the border.

The testimony comes at a time when President Donald Trump's push for a border wall includes arguments that it would help stop the flow of drugs into the United States.

Trump tweeted Friday that without a steel barrier or wall along the US-Mexico border, "our Country cannot be safe. Criminals, Gangs, Human Traffickers, Drugs & so much other big trouble can easily pour in. It can be stopped cold!"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/us/drug-traffickers-el-chapo-trial-drugs-across-border/index.html

A lot more info in the article. Yeah, these aren't honorable people. They aren't good witnesses. But, the data backs it up. Meanwhile, with how the press is reporting on drug smuggling the popularity of the wall has increased tho repubs and trumps numbers are tanking.
If more sources than CNN report on this story it would help.

[Scarsdale]

1. We are in more danger

from the Russian agents in DC than from any immigrants. How about the Russian mafia? Are they O.K. because they are white, and friends of tRump?

[safeinOhio]

2. and the Russian mob

they run all kinds of $ scams and well as massage parlors involved with human trafficking.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Whatever he does will be pro Russia

One thing we know for certain, if he can make US policy benefit Russia in some way he will. Russian mobsters bring in heroin through our ports, no surprise Trump doesn’t want security there beefed up.

[scarytomcat]

4. It is tough to carry a couple bales of weed across open country

better to bring it by water
Drugs come in by the hundreds of pounds not by dime bags
How much for a wall around the whole country?

[Major Nikon]

6. They typically carry 40-100lb crudely made backpacks

But it's a very inefficient method of transporting drugs. Eventually the DHS figures out what your trade routes are and they interdict accordingly. That's why the cartels primarily use designated ports of entry for the vast majority of their product. Instead of looking for a needle in a haystack, the CBP has to look for a needle in a stack of needles.

[calimary]

5. I'd guess they would know.

Weird, isn’t it - how one would be motivated to trust the word of a drug trafficker over that of our so-called “pResident”?