This lede is buried routinely because the facts surrounding the explosive growth of Mexican drug cartels the past ~10y (WSJ 2.24), the migrant crisis, and perils of the white working class (aka trailer trash) don’t fit neatly into the far-left narrative or their growing AI LLMs.
This is all a result of drug prohibition.
It only took us 13 years to figure out alcohol prohibition didn't work, but we're just gonna carry on the War on Drugs for another 50 years, apparently.