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Another Reason to Secure the Border:  Meth is back.  The powerful, highly-addictive drug that swept across America fifteen years ago sparking a national crackdown, is again readily and cheaply available, killing more people today than at the height of the epidemic in the mid 2000s.  Joshua Sharpe of The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that after Congress, statehouses and law enforcement shut down meth production in the US and locked up dealers (mass incarceration), drug cartels moved production to Mexico and now smuggle thousands of gallons of a cheaper more potent version of meth into the country.  The product is now so widely available--dealers sometimes give out free samples, and its use is spreading to every demographic.  According to the Centers for Disease Control, from 2005 to 2015 deaths from stimulants, mostly from Meth, has increased by over 250% in the U.S.  Like Fentanyl, which is also killing people at epidemic levels, Meth, guns and trafficked women and children are flowing across the nation's unsecured southern border.     

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