text: mexican cartels are “the predominant smugglers, transporters, & distributors of drugs? http://hsc.house.gov/pdfs/investigaionssubcommitteereport.pdf  federal drug seizures in 2005 on our southern boarder:  1,129,275 pounds of cocaine. 6,866,465 pounds of marijuana      16,790 pounds of methamphetamine.   page 7:  according to the national drug intelligence center, mexican cartels are “the predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and mexico-heroin in the united states” and “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.” that is very good and interesting information. those amounts are so extremely high, i could never have guess that they would have exported that much drugs.