METH THREAT

". . . For the second consecutive year, a higher percentage of state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide (39.2%) have identified methamphetamine as the drug that poses the greatest threat to their area than the percentage that identified any other drug, according to the National Drug Threat Survey 2005 (see Appendix A, Map 2). . .

. . . Mexican drug trafficking organizations and criminal groups are the most influential drug traffickers in the United States, and their influence is increasing. They are the predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and Mexico-produced heroin in the United States; they are expanding their control over the distribution of these drugs in areas long controlled by Colombian and Dominican criminal groups, including areas of New York and Florida. . .

. . . Mexican drug trafficking organizations and criminal groups have emerged as the primary wholesale drug money launderers in the country because of the increasing influence they are exerting on domestic drug trafficking. Mexican traffickers typically transport their drug proceeds from U.S. market areas to areas in proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border. These proceeds are aggregated and eventually smuggled in bulk into Mexico for repatriation or for further transport to South America. . ."