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Mexican DTOs that traditionally smuggle drugs through the El Paso/Juárez plaza will most likely seek alternative routes to avoid confrontations with Mexican Government counterdrug forces and rival DTOs by shifting some of their smuggling activities to the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico. As a result, it is quite likely that drug-related violence in U.S. communities along the border in New Mexico will increase as law enforcement officials and rival traffickers respond to the shifts in smuggling routes.
The number of small-scale methamphetamine laboratories in the New Mexico HIDTA region will most likely increase in the near term. Mexican DTOs, criminal groups, and local independent traffickers are likely to intensify their domestic methamphetamine production activities within the HIDTA region to counter the decreased availability of Mexican ice methamphetamine caused by enhanced precursor chemical restrictions in Mexico.
Illicit drug abuse, particularly the abuse of heroin and methamphetamine, in the New Mexico HIDTA region will remain at high levels. Multigenerational heroin abuse, methamphetamine abuse in Native American communities, and an abundant supply of these drugs render the New Mexico HIDTA region vulnerable to sustained high levels of abuse.
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