Northern Baja California is a primary staging area for packaging illegal drugs and smuggling them into the United States.
But while Mexican cartels fight for control of the lucrative routes, drug agents say the amount of trafficking has not diminished.
“I haven't seen a huge difference in the smuggling attempts,” said Michael Unzueta of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is in charge of the investigations office in San Diego and has worked on and off at the border for 16 years.
Smuggling into U.S. unhindered by drug-trade war
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