In 2006 the Mexican drug cartels operated in only 50 U.S. cities, and now they are in 1,300 communities across the nation according to the National Drug Intelligence Center as reported by Nick Valencia for CNN: “drug cartels have become so widespread in this country that some are calling the people who run them the drug lords next door.” Unfortunately, there is little that law enforcement can do about the problem as President Obama refuses to enforce the immigration laws. According to Valencia the drug cartels are “operating under the cover of a growing Latino community” in the United States, and “the large boom in Latino population allows easier access for the cartels to blend in and hide under that cover so it’s a hard road ahead for the authorities that’s for sure.”