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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 / 4:13 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Brad Brooks
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(Reuters) - President Donald Trumps concern the United States could open its doors to very bad drug dealers by easing immigration rules for the storm-hit Bahamas is undercut by administration data showing the Caribbean plays a small role in the narcotics trade.
The era of the 1980s Cocaine Cowboys, who used speedboats to ferry vast amounts of that drug into South Florida from the Caribbean, has long since passed in large part because of the cooperation between the United States and nations including the Bahamas.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agencys most recent assessment of drug trafficking mentions the Bahamas only once in its more than 150 pages, and indeed raises concerns about more potent marijuana flowing from the continental United States to the Caribbean.
There are an extremely small number of people in the Bahamas involved in the level of criminality Trump was talking about, particularly drug trafficking, said Charles Katz, an Arizona State University criminology professor who has worked extensively in the Caribbean, including advising nations on how to fight crime.
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/storm-dorian-bahamas-drugs/trumps-very-bad-bahamian-drug-dealers-u-s-data-shows-little-evidence-idUKKCN1VV2OB?rpc=401&
atreides1
(16,068 posts)To Trump, his base, and that little toad Stephen Miller, those people aren't the right color...and that's the real reason he doesn't want them here!!!!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)The absolute absurdity of looking at storm-shocked families and seeing "very bad people, drug dealers"-- you know that's just the way he refers to non-whites.
safeinOhio
(32,656 posts)Who's bringing in the coke?
https://freedomoutpost.com/90-pounds-cocaine-seized-aboard-ship-owned-mitch-mcconnells-family/
Peace06
(248 posts)His logic is what is very bad. In fact that is an apt description of him overall. I'm sure the drug dealers had the means and money to get out. Does he think the drug dealers would purposely stay in the direct path of the hurricane? And risk losing their product? Or they stayed there just to get in US?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)What are bad drug dealers? The ones that dont turn a profit?
Straw Man
(6,622 posts)... Jackie Brown on Netflix.