Mexican

Mexican Drug Cartels

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mexican drug trafficking groups, commonly called cartels, pose the greatest criminal threat to the United States. These groups dominate the production and trafficking of most of the illicit drugs that come into the United States. Mexico is a major producer of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine and, since the

Mexican Mafia

The Mexican Mafia is a prison gang, being the first such gang to establish extralegal governance over prison inmates as well as criminal street gangs conducting gang-related criminal operations outside prison walls. It achieved this power and control by offering protection services to incarcerated gang members in return for payment of taxes (percentages of criminal