“You can’t fight markets,” says David Shirk, associate professor
of international relations and director of the Justice in Mexico project at the
University of San Diego. “When a market reaches a certain size, you
can’t fight it.”
Joe Garcia, a deputy special agent with the Department of
Homeland Security and head of the San
Diego Tunnel Task Force, would beg to differ. He and his
colleagues have spent much of their careers doing just that,
discovering more than 200 drug tunnels under the California-Mexico
border since the inception of the task force in 1990.
“We want to make it so unattractive to do the type of work that
they do, that they’ll go somewhere else,” says Garcia.
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forces and prohibitionist attitudes has played out along
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