Although the DEA and other government agencies are working to stop drugs entering the border, there is still a significant problem in many parts of the US. Mexican drug cartels have become more aggressive, and more violent in their efforts to move drugs to the US. That has left many communities that border Mexico in ruins, as the death toll attributed to gang violence and drug addiction.
-The DEA makes 30,000 arrests a year in the US for drug trafficking
-Over 32 percent of all inmates in US prisons were either under the influence of drugs or in possession of drugs when arrested
-In 2008, the DEA seized the following amounts of drugs within the borders of the United States: