Posted on November 5, 2015

OK, Who Ordered the Mexican Heroin?

Ann Coulter, VDARE, November 4, 2015

Heroin use in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent between 2007 and 2012 alone, and The New York Times’ main reaction to this depressing fact is to be overjoyed that the new addicts are mostly white.

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Excitedly reporting that “nearly 90 percent of those who tried heroin for the first time in the last decade were white”–yay!–the Times claimed that, with white kids dying from heroin overdoses, their parents are taking a “more forgiving approach” to heroin addiction.

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The implication that black people have always had a more “forgiving” approach to drugs–and whites are finally catching up–is insane. Black leaders have been begging for more aggressive drug laws forever.

In the ’90s, members of the Congressional Black Caucus repeatedly held hearings on the crack epidemic, crime and drugs. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called drug traffickers “a greater threat to our national security than communists.” Jesse Jackson demanded “a comprehensive war on drugs.” Lee Brown, Clinton’s African-American director of national drug control policy, said that “that the legalization of illegal drugs would be the moral equivalent to genocide.”

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If the Times had any genuine interest in reducing drug addiction, I suspect the paper would prefer the “stigmatizing” approach. It might even advocate policies to stop drug addiction, rather than policies to treat it.

As Rangel said in a 1992 speech to the National Press Club: “We all know that the availability of heroin and cocaine on our streets is because our borders are a sieve. I would like to believe that if the communists were still alive and well, and they were pushing bombs into communities that could cause the havoc, the pain and the cost that drugs are, that somehow the secretary of state . . . would be involved.”

Rangel is right. The drug problem exploded in the U.S. after we opened our southern border to one of the world’s major drug-supplying countries: Mexico. The vast majority of all drugs in America–heroin, cocaine, marijuana and, increasingly, methamphetamine–are brought in by the people of Mexico, who make our country a more diverse tapestry of cultural richness.

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About 90 percent of heroin in the U.S. is brought in by Mexicans. In 2013, U.S. authorities seized 2,162 kilograms of heroin coming across our southern border–compared to 367 kilos in 2007. The government has estimated that 660,000 Americans are using heroin and more than 3,000 are dying of it every year–because Mexico is boosting the supply.

And yet in a major front-page article about America’s “heroin crisis” last weekend, the Times never mentioned Mexico.

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Despite the Times’ neurotic obsession with the racial breakdown of heroin users, it seems sublimely uninterested in the ethnic composition of heroin pushers. This is more than the left’s usual affection for criminals.

Contrary to the cliches, most drug dealers aren’t black: They’re Hispanic. In 2013, 48 percent of drug offenders in federal prison were Hispanic. Only 27 percent were black and 22 percent white.

All the left’s blather about drug laws being used to lock up “black bodies” is a lie. Once again, the left is using African-Americans as a false flag to push policies that help Democrats, but hurt black people.

The Times doesn’t mind black neighborhoods being seized by Mexican drug cartels. It doesn’t mind if more white people die from heroin overdoses. The Times just wants to increase the number of Hispanics out of prison, on their way to citizenship, so they can start voting for the Democrats.