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Gov. Brewer: Most Border-Crossers are Drug 'Mules' for Mexican Cartels
 Michael Winter - USA Today
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June 26, 2010
| | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaking after the June 15 debate among Republican candidates. (Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press) | |
Expanding on comments made at a candidates' debate, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said today she believes that most illegal immigrants crossing the border are "mules" carrying drugs for Mexican cartels.
"I believe today, under the circumstances that we're facing, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in," Brewer told the Associated Press.
"There's strong information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then they are accosted and they become subjects of the drug cartel," she said.
During the June 15 Republican debate she said she believed that most illegal immigrants did not enter the United States for work. She then associated illegal immigrants with drug smuggling, drop houses, extortion and other criminal activity, according to AP.
The state law she signed making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally will take effect next month.
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