About 30% of the welfare checks in Fresno go to support this killing

Since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 and declared an open war on the drug cartels, nearly 50,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico, according to Mexico's government. Many of the dead are narco-traffickers and low-level dealers. Increasingly, civilians have been caught in the crossfire as cartels fight for the lucrative drug trading zones so critical to smuggling narcotics north. The violence in towns along the U.S.-Mexico border has been well documented. CNN

And the odd thing, even if Fresnans wanted to stop our meth consumption, we don't have enough votes in the Senate to do a damn thing!